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Cutting-Edge Designs for Networking, Video
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Any Indian company performing cutting-edge design work is in danger of being grabbed by a multinational chip company. Take Bangalore-based Lara Networks, for example, leader in network co-processors, bought by Cypress Semiconductors mid-2001.
Cypress is investing US$15 million to triple its employment at Bangalore to 300. Cypress India manufactures port solutions, Network search engines and network coprocessors. It recently launched MoBL SRAMs for mobile applications, Neuron distributed control processors (Photo)and programmable clock chips, said Cypress India CEO Rajat Gupta.
An OC-48 framer with 3.5 million gates was designed for telecom companies like Nortel and implements virtual concatenation. It uses 0.18micron 6-level metal technology, and will probably migrate to 0.13micron, said David Rees, managing director, International Design Centers.
The single-chip Neuron combines control and communication features for sensor/actuator applications. It incorporates hardware and firmware for a LonWorks distributed intelligent control network node. It also contains three CPUs, SRAM, Flash, I/O and communications ports.
Sage India (Bangalore), a development center for Sage Inc, has released a highly integrated SoC family of products as a follow-up to the Jaguar family. Some of these chips have eliminated various individual IC functions, such as the A-D converter, VESA-digital visual interface receiver, image scaler, microcontroller and the LCD panel timing controller. The chips use either 0.25micron or 0.18micron standard CMOS technology.
Muthu Chinnasamy, general manager of Sage India, said that "While EDA tools enable the SoC design process to be managed reasonably well, we feel the inability to integrate non-volatile memory functions in standard CMOS process in a cost-effective manner is a hindrance to further integration."
Networking, Video
Nearly half of Intel's developers in Bangalore are involved in networking and wireless projects; indeed Intel's India Development Center has now developed a network switch family, the IXE 2424. The media switch family is part of Intel's strategy to speed up corporate migration to Gbit Ethernet. It offers 24 10/100Mbps and four Gbit ports, with 10/100 and Gbit media access controllers integrated. It enables switches to be built for under US$100 per port. Intel is bringing out its new media switch products, which have been publicly endorsed by Fujitsu, in 2002.
National Semiconductor India has designed advanced IOs, the videoprocessor module for the Geode processor, and a 10/100Mbps Ethernet IC in 0.18micron CMOS process. According to Ashok Kumar, general manager, the center is now targeting the information appliance (IA) and digital image processing markets using the CMOS 0.15micron ARM processor. The chips include several peripherals, like DMAs, SDRAMs, cache controllers, etc.
Broadcom India develops MPEG cores and software for Gbit LAN switches. "Our MPEG technology, using special-purpose RISC/DSP engines optimized for MPEG, delivers very high decode performance at reduced core sizes. The chips, already in volume production, use 0.18micron technology. New offerings will soon be based on 0.13micron process," said Rajendra Khare, general manager.
"Motorola, Echostar, Pioneer and Pace have announced set-top boxes based on our chips," added Khare. "Echostar's DishPVR 721 -- based on Broadcom's BCM7021 chip -- won the Best-of-the-Show award at the recent Consumer Electronics Show.
"Broadcom India is the first semiconductor company in India to deploy hardware emulation solutions from IKOS, which has helped us produce bug-free chips. We have leveraged the emulation platforms to develop and test the software before arrival of the parts," said Khare.
by Jude Pinto, Mumbai
(April 2002 Issue, Nikkei Electronics Asia)
Cypress is investing US$15 million to triple its employment at Bangalore to 300. Cypress India manufactures port solutions, Network search engines and network coprocessors. It recently launched MoBL SRAMs for mobile applications, Neuron distributed control processors (Photo)and programmable clock chips, said Cypress India CEO Rajat Gupta.
An OC-48 framer with 3.5 million gates was designed for telecom companies like Nortel and implements virtual concatenation. It uses 0.18micron 6-level metal technology, and will probably migrate to 0.13micron, said David Rees, managing director, International Design Centers.
The single-chip Neuron combines control and communication features for sensor/actuator applications. It incorporates hardware and firmware for a LonWorks distributed intelligent control network node. It also contains three CPUs, SRAM, Flash, I/O and communications ports.
Sage India (Bangalore), a development center for Sage Inc, has released a highly integrated SoC family of products as a follow-up to the Jaguar family. Some of these chips have eliminated various individual IC functions, such as the A-D converter, VESA-digital visual interface receiver, image scaler, microcontroller and the LCD panel timing controller. The chips use either 0.25micron or 0.18micron standard CMOS technology.
Muthu Chinnasamy, general manager of Sage India, said that "While EDA tools enable the SoC design process to be managed reasonably well, we feel the inability to integrate non-volatile memory functions in standard CMOS process in a cost-effective manner is a hindrance to further integration."
Networking, Video
Nearly half of Intel's developers in Bangalore are involved in networking and wireless projects; indeed Intel's India Development Center has now developed a network switch family, the IXE 2424. The media switch family is part of Intel's strategy to speed up corporate migration to Gbit Ethernet. It offers 24 10/100Mbps and four Gbit ports, with 10/100 and Gbit media access controllers integrated. It enables switches to be built for under US$100 per port. Intel is bringing out its new media switch products, which have been publicly endorsed by Fujitsu, in 2002.
National Semiconductor India has designed advanced IOs, the videoprocessor module for the Geode processor, and a 10/100Mbps Ethernet IC in 0.18micron CMOS process. According to Ashok Kumar, general manager, the center is now targeting the information appliance (IA) and digital image processing markets using the CMOS 0.15micron ARM processor. The chips include several peripherals, like DMAs, SDRAMs, cache controllers, etc.
Broadcom India develops MPEG cores and software for Gbit LAN switches. "Our MPEG technology, using special-purpose RISC/DSP engines optimized for MPEG, delivers very high decode performance at reduced core sizes. The chips, already in volume production, use 0.18micron technology. New offerings will soon be based on 0.13micron process," said Rajendra Khare, general manager.
"Motorola, Echostar, Pioneer and Pace have announced set-top boxes based on our chips," added Khare. "Echostar's DishPVR 721 -- based on Broadcom's BCM7021 chip -- won the Best-of-the-Show award at the recent Consumer Electronics Show.
"Broadcom India is the first semiconductor company in India to deploy hardware emulation solutions from IKOS, which has helped us produce bug-free chips. We have leveraged the emulation platforms to develop and test the software before arrival of the parts," said Khare.
by Jude Pinto, Mumbai
(April 2002 Issue, Nikkei Electronics Asia)
