ARM and Mindspeed(R) Address Next-Generation Home Gateways With Multiprocessing Technology
28 4월 2008 - 7:24PM
PR Newswire (US)
Collaboration Builds on Success of ARM Powered Mindspeed
Comcerto(R) 100 Platform CAMBRIDGE, England and NEWPORT BEACH,
California, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARM [(LSE:ARM);
(NASDAQ:ARMH)] and Mindspeed Technologies (NASDAQ:MSPD) today
announced an ongoing collaboration designed to address the needs of
broadband service providers delivering triple- (voice, data, video)
and quad-play (+ cellular) applications to homes and small
businesses. The collaboration has already resulted in the
successful development and launch last year of the Mindspeed
Comcerto 100 series of broadband gateway processors. The Comcerto
100 is a single chip solution based on two ARM1136J-S(TM)
processors and provides the best performance-power-cost profile in
its class by optimal decomposition of broadband gateway functions
among the two processors. Because the Comcerto 100 is based on the
ARM(R) architecture, Mindspeed was able to provide high performance
at low cost and with extremely low power. In addition, the
scalability of the high-performance ARM processor-based multicore
solution enables the Comcerto100 to provide significant application
headroom for future service deployments. "The ARM architecture is
the optimal solution to enable us to offer best-in-class quality of
service (QoS) for the service delivery platforms that are emerging
as broadband gateways evolve into an intelligent access point in
the home, managing multiple end-nodes with multimedia
capabilities," said Preet Virk, senior vice president and general
manager of Mindspeed's enterprise and customer premise equipment.
"The need for more bandwidth and sophisticated services within an
ever-diminishing power budget can only realistically be met by
high-performance multiprocessing. As the leading provider of
high-performance embedded multicore processing solutions, ARM is
our logical choice for future development." "Mindspeed is a leading
implementer of multicore platforms optimized for gateway
applications," said Ian Ferguson, director Enterprise Solutions,
ARM. "We look forward to a long term engagement with Mindspeed as
they expand their portfolio of innovative multicore-based SoCs
utilizing the ARM Cortex(TM)-A9 MPCore multicore processor to
address next-generation service provider gateway requirements." The
two companies are already collaborating on next-generation gateway
platform solutions for the residential and enterprise market
segments and co-marketing these solutions to service providers and
OEMs/ODMs. The Comcerto100 architecture uses optimal decomposition
of broadband gateway functions among two high-performance
ARM1136J-S processors to ensure QoS for real-time applications.
With real-time processing such as voice, video and packet
forwarding optimized to reside on one of the processors and non
real-time processing such as network monitoring and subscriber
management on the second; the Comcerto100 broadband gateway
architecture protects the quality and reliability of
revenue-bearing services while providing application headroom for
future service deployments. Because of this asymmetric multicore
partitioning, OEMs and service providers can easily program higher
level applications without worrying about the impact to real-time
functionality or headroom limitations due to shared processing
resources. With clear demarcation between real-time processing like
voice and video and non real-time processing such as monitoring and
subscriber management, the Comcerto 100 processor enables a
broadband gateway architecture that protects revenue-bearing
services while providing application headroom for future service
deployments. About ARM "ARM designs the technology that lies at the
heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and
consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security
and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes
32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling
software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed
connectivity products, peripherals and development tools. Combined
with comprehensive design services, training, support and
maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they
provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path
to market for leading electronics companies. More information on
ARM is available at http://www.arm.com/." About Mindspeed
Technologies Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and
sells semiconductor networking solutions for communications
applications in enterprise, access, metropolitan and wide area
networks. The company's three key product families include
high-performance analog transmission and switching solutions,
multiservice access products designed to support voice and data
services across wireline and wireless networks, and WAN
communications solutions including T/E carrier physical-layer and
link-layer devices as well as ATM/MPLS network processors.
Mindspeed's products are used in a wide variety of network
infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways,
high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect
systems, add-drop multiplexers and digital loop carrier equipment.
To learn more, visit http://www.mindspeed.com/. ARM is a registered
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the regional subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM
Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.;
ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH;
ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS. Safe
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