Tundra Semiconductor Partners with Enea to Deliver System Software Using RapidIO®

LINX and RapidIO Accelerate Time to Market for Network Equipment Providers
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enea (Nordic Exchange/Midcap/ENEA), the world leader in advanced device software for network systems, and Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), the leader in system interconnect, have collaborated to deliver Enea’s LINX™ interprocess communications (IPC) services over RapidIO®. Working with Tundra’s new serial RapidIO development platforms, Enea has implemented and verified complete support for LINX over RapidIO and interoperability with Tundra’s RapidIO switches. Together, RapidIO and LINX provide a reliable, scalable, high-performance interconnect platform for quickly developing and deploying next-generation communications infrastructure systems.

“Network equipment providers require flexible system architectures that can be easily reused across multiple product lines, scaled to meet increased subscriber demand, and upgraded to deliver new services,” said Linda Thompson, vice president of corporate alliances at Enea. “Tundra’s best-in-class RapidIO technology, coupled with our LINX IPC services, provides a high-performance, high-availability platform for deploying converged IP multimedia services that reduce capital and operating expenses for both equipment makers and service providers.”

“We were thrilled to partner with Enea to bring this technology to the communications infrastructure market,” said Daniel Hoste, president and CEO, Tundra Semiconductor. “RapidIO is the right System Interconnect for high bandwidth communications systems. Enea’s LINX over RapidIO will allow our customers to accelerate the deployment of new systems and services. RapidIO is increasingly penetrating new aspects of our customers’ and partners’ technologies," continued Hoste. "As RapidIO evolves, Tundra is meeting the increasing demand for its industry-leading expertise, products, and design tools."

RapidIO is a leading serial interconnect standard for embedded systems, and is ideal for aggregating and connecting large numbers of microprocessors, DSPs and FPGAs, both on a single board, and on multiple boards across a backplane. Tundra, a founding member of the RapidIO Trade Association and long-time Steering Committee member, was the first semiconductor vendor to bring Serial RapidIO switches to market. These switches, which include the Tsi564A™, Tsi568A™, Tsi574™, Tsi576™ and Tsi578™, provide high performance chip-to-chip interconnect between RapidIO end-points, and can be used to replace existing proprietary backplane fabrics for board-to-board interconnect.

Enea’s LINX provides reliable, high-performance interprocess communications services over physical interconnects like RapidIO. Utilizing direct message passing, LINX makes complex distributed systems easier to conceptualize, model, partition, and scale.

LINX scales from DSPs and microcontrollers to 64-bit CPUs, is independent of the underlying processor and operating system, supports control and data plane applications over reliable and unreliable media, and delivers 20% higher performance than competitive IPC solutions. LINX also supports any distributed system topology, from a single processor on a single board, to large networks with complex cluster topologies deployed on hundreds of processors in a multi-rack system.

About Enea

Enea (Nordic Exchange/Midcap/ENEA) is the leading supplier of real-time operating systems, middleware, development tools, database technology and professional services for high-availability systems such as telecommunications infrastructure, mobile devices, medical instrumentation, and automobile control/infotainment. Enea’s flagship operating system, OSE™, is deployed in approximately half of the world’s 3G mobile phones and base stations. Enea has over 500 employees and is listed on the Nordic Exchange. For more information, please visit www.enea.com.

About Tundra

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN) supplies the world’s leading communications, computing and storage companies with smart System Interconnect products and design services backed by world-class customer service and technical support. Tundra’s track record of product leadership includes over a decade of bridges and switches enabling key industry standards: RapidIO®, PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express®, Power PC®, VME, HyperTransport™, Interlaken, and SPI4.2. Tundra’s products deliver high functional quality and simplified board design and layout, with specific focus on system level signal integrity. Tundra's design services division, Silicon Logic Engineering, Inc., offers industry-leading ASIC and FPGA design services, semiconductor intellectual property and product development consulting. Tundra’s smart technology connects critical components in high performance embedded systems around the world. For more information, please visit www.tundra.com.