Serial RapidIO development platform gets users to market quickly

"The Tundra Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Development Platform is critical to the success of Mango DSP’s products in the fields of video processing and communication. Using this SRDP, we have accelerated our time to market by commencing early software prototyping. The SRDP's flexibility allows us to partition our system architecture and utilize the Tundra Serial RapidIO switch to optimize data flow between DSPs, microprocessors, FPGAs and ASICs," said Joel Rotem, Director of Technical Sales, Mango DSP.

Tundra continues to lead in the development of the RapidIO standard and was the first semiconductor vendor to bring parallel and serial RapidIO switches to market. With three generations of RapidIO Switches in production or sampling and development platforms available, Tundra is recognized as a market leader. Tundra is committed to bringing high-performance RapidIO products and design support tools to market to meet the rapidly growing demand. Customers designing RapidIO-based systems that require a large number of processors, DSP and FPGA aggregation or connection from board-to-board within a chassis across the backplane, benefit from Tundra’s growing serial RapidIO portfolio.

"Delivering on our commitment to lead the System Interconnect industry, this Tsi578 Serial RapidIO Development Platform offers customers a competitive edge, as they get their products to market faster using this flexible design tool,” said Rick O'Connor, Chief Technology Officer at Tundra. “The modularity of this SRDP allows system OEMs to tailor their hardware platforms to emulate their end hardware configuration, which is not possible with competing solutions.”

Both the Tundra Tsi568A SRDP, launched in July of 2005, and the Tsi578 SRDP leverage various industry standard mechanical connectors including, Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) connectors, SubMiniature version A (SMA) connectors, Hardware Interoperability Platform connectors (HIP), and a 4x I/O (input/output) differential cable connector. This level and breadth of interoperability enables a high degree of flexibility so customers can perform a range of development and diagnostic activities including, advanced traffic management, rapid prototyping and interoperability testing.