Integrated Device Technology has a range of switches for the Serial RapidIO Generation 2 which will double the serial data rate up to 20Gbit/s.
According to Fred Zust, v-p of the communications division at IDT, the GEN2 Serial RapidIO interface is aimed at 4G mobile and broadband infrastructure systems.
The initial products include the CPS-1848 48-lane switch, with 240Gbit/s of non-blocking bandwidth for use in large processor clusters or backplanes, and the CPS-1616 16-lane switch, with 80Gbit/s of non-blocking bandwidth optimized for line cards and smaller processor clusters
“In addition to these switches, IDT is developing PCI Express Gen2-to-Serial RapidIO Gen2 bridges to provide options of connecting Serial RapidIO networks with the vast ecosystem of PCIe-enabled processors,” said Zust.
It will also find application in high end data processing boards such as radar and sonar systems.
Latency is 100ns in cut-through mode.
The supplier also has a Serial RapidIO system modelling tool for optimising network architecture, as well as Serial RapidIO Linux open source support and the RapidFET JTAG edition software for switch configuration.