Xelerated, Infineon team on network processors

Xelerated, Infineon team on network processors
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- Fabless semiconductor company, Xelerated has teamed up with Infineon Technologies to develop system memory and advanced communications systems in a move to enable system vendors to design complete 10-40Gbit/s full-duplex systems during 2002.

Xelerated and Infineon will produce a line-card reference design based on the Xelerator Traffic Manager and Infineon's Reduced Latency DRAM, RLDRAM. According to the companies, the purpose of the reference board is to verify interoperability and demonstrate a working solution for high-end traffic management applications including buffer capacity, bandwidth and jitter.

"We are very pleased to have Infineon join us as a partner in our partnership program," said Thomas Eklund, director of business development at Xelerated. "By combining our traffic manager and RLDRAM, we can offer system vendors traffic management solutions with unbeatable quality of service characteristics at speeds of 10Gbit/s and above."

Through its partnership program, Xelerated plans to create a "one-stop-shop" for system vendors through bringing together component companies to supply "best-in-class" components for metro, edge and core router line-card solutions.