Tundra, Tsi109 Host Bridge

Genesi selects Tundra Tsi109™ Host Bridge for PowerPC

News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
20/03/2006

Tundra Semiconductor's Tsi109 Host Bridge is to be integrated into the Genesi High Density Blade Server. Using the Tsi109, the Genesi design optimises system space to create the highest possible density blade server and ensures high performance at low cost.

Focused on leveraging the computing and power efficiency of Freescale Semiconductor’s high performance MPC74xx PowerPC processor, the Genesi High Density Blade Server provides a complete reference design package offering third party manufacturers a significant competitive advantage in the Blade Server market.

The Tsi109 Host Bridge is capable of dual processor support at 167MHz, which enables higher system compute performance. The Tsi109’s superior memory pipeline offers industry-leading memory bandwidth and an optimised PCI-X interface provides greater I/O to memory throughput.

In addition to 2.5Watt typical power dissipation, the Tsi109 supports DDR2 memory, which makes this host bridge the ideal choice for demanding high-density, power-sensitive applications. The combination of the Tsi109’s features, reliability and Tundra’s world-class support provides designers with the benefits of greater overall system performance, reduced system design complexity, better integration and superior power efficiency