Tundra Semiconductor RapidIO Switch Passes Level 3 Device Interoperability Test

Ottawa, Canada - RIOLAB recently announced that the Tundra Semiconductor Tsi578, (10GCLYZ2), Serial RapidIO switch is a Device Interoperability Level 3 (DIL-3) Qualified Device, having successfully passed DIL-3, DIL-2 and DIL-1 testing against all other vendor devices in the RIOLAB hardware library.

"Tundra's latest revision of Tsi578 has successfully passed all three levels of DIL testing at RIOLAB," said Jim Parisien, President of Fabric Embedded Tools. "These tests confirm Tundra's commitment to providing proven technology to customers and partners within the RapidIO ecosystem as they design innovative high performance systems."

RIOLAB tests, based on the RapidIO Trade Association's RapidIO Device Interoperability and Specification Compliance Checklists, 1.3 Spec, address the graduated levels of interoperability that align with the increasing complexity of both the RapidIO specification and the needs of silicon vendors and OEMs.

DIL-3 tests represent the highest level of Device Interoperability Level testing. It involves extensive use of test equipment to verify correct transaction requests and responses including packet analysis within the physical, transport and logical layers of the specification.

"The Tundra Tsi578 enables higher bandwidth applications such as WiMAX, 3G LTE, Signal Processing in Military Avionics Systems, Storage and Medical Imaging where throughput and low latency are critical. Tier 1 communications and embedded computing OEMs, both within system designs and in backplane architecture, are designing-in this RIOLAB interoperable-proven switch," said Daniel Hoste, president and chief executive officer, Tundra Semiconductor. "Having passed the comprehensive RIOLAB DIL-1,DIL-2 and now DIL-3 testing, the RapidIO ecosystem has the additional assurance of an independent test facility that the Tsi578 meets stringent interoperability specifications," added, Mr. Hoste.

The Tundra Semiconductor Tsi578 is an 8/16 port Serial RapidIO switch with links independently configurable at 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps of data rate. The Tsi578 is ideally suited for DSP, FPGA, ASIC and processor aggregation on line cards as well as backplane switching in a number of markets including wireless and wireline communications infrastructure, storage equipment, video processing and military signal processing.

SOURCE: Fabric Embedded Tools