By narrowing their focus to the ethernet MAC and PCS – designing their own soft PCS core as opposed to the typical solution which uses the hard PCS core – Tamba Networks has optimised the design of both, bringing an extremely efficient solution to market and saving many nanoseconds of latency in the process.
“Many of our customers are looking for the lowest possible latency,” stated Ron Huizen, Vice President of Systems & Solutions at BittWare. “Therefore, we are always seeking out industry-leading technology that can help. Tamba’s MAC+PCS IP cores enable us to provide our customers with unprecedented wire-to-application ethernet latency.”
The Tamba Networks IP cores are available on all of BittWare’s PCIe-based Altera Stratix V family of boards which include:
- S5PH-Q Altera Stratix V GX/GS Half-Length PCIe Board with Dual QSFP+/SFP+, DDR3, and QDRII+
- S5PE-F Altera Stratix V GX/GS PCI Board with VITA 57 FMC Site
- S5PE Altera Stratix V GX/GS PCI Board with Dual QSFP+
“BittWare is the Altera FPGA hardware platform of choice for financial customer applications in networking, packet processing, and high performance computing solutions,” stated Nad Karim, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Tamba Networks. “Their PCI Express boards based on the Altera Stratix V FPGA are an ideal fit for our MAC and PCS IP cores and we are very pleased to be partnering with them, giving our customers access to a complete solution.”