“This collaboration allows our customers to enjoy the lowest cost and fastest time to market when designing real-time Industrial Ethernet connectivity into their products,” said Keith Prettyjohns, CEO of Innovasic Semiconductor. “The unique real-time architecture of the fido1100 chip, in conjunction with the power efficiency and small footprint of the KSZ8873, delivers a full performance solution that can be rapidly designed into new products,” he concluded.
We are very pleased that this partnership offers customers a complete and easy to use solution for switched Industrial Ethernet connectivity,” said Wiren Perera, Micrel’s director of Ethernet Products. “It is a natural extension for Micrel’s high reliability, extended temperature and low emissions networking portfolio for the industrial and automotive segments.”