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IP3023 Processor in Volume Production with Multiple True Circuits PLL Hard Macros;
Targets Streaming Media, Voice and Gaming Applications
LOS ALTOS, California - True Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading
provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the
semiconductor, systems and electronics industries, announced today
that Ubicom, Inc. of Mountain View, California has successfully
implemented multiple True Circuits PLL hard macros in Ubicom's
IP3023TM
wireless network processor using TSMC's 130nm process technology.
The Ubicom processor is now in volume production and offers
performance that is up to three times that of comparable SoCs used in
wireless applications. The processor's real-time architectural
approach offers the highest quality streaming media and the fastest
response times for voice and gaming applications. The processor was
announced on April 15, 2003, to broad industry acclaim. (View the
latest press release at www.ubicom.com/news/releases/2003/20040103_3023.html.)
"We needed a flexible, high-performance and proven timing
solution to meet the low latency requirements of our wireless network
processor," said Darrell Burns, Vice President of Engineering at
Ubicom. "True Circuits provided us with multi-phase clock generator
PLLs that met all our performance requirements and are now enabling
our customers to meet their own price and performance goals in the
wireless infrastructure and peripheral equipment markets."
"Our goal is to help our customers realize the performance
potential of their advanced products in whatever CMOS process they
select," remarked Stephen G. Maneatis, CEO of True
Circuits. "We are very pleased to have yet another customer
achieve success with our low-jitter PLLs in high-performance wireless
applications."
About Ubicom's Wireless Network Processor
Now in volume production, the IP3023 has shown network address
translation (NAT) routing performance of over 50 Mbps on typical
Internet packet mixes and uses a patent-pending architecture designed
for real-time tasks and low latency. These performance levels enable
routing at full wireless and very high speed digital subscriber line
(VDSL) speeds, better firewall functions, and the addition of key
features like print serving, voice, and VPN functions to low-cost
routers. As the wireless industry migrates to higher speed radio
technologies, the IP3023 provides a seamless upgrade path.
About True Circuits PLLs and DLLs
True Circuits offers a complete family of standardized clock
generator, deskew, low-bandwidth and spread-spectrum PLLs and DDR DLLs
that spans nearly all performance points and features typically
requested by ASIC designers. These high-quality, low-jitter, silicon
proven hard macros are available for immediate delivery in a range of
frequencies, multiplication factors and functions in 0.25 to 0.09
micron CMOS processes from the world's leading silicon fabrication
vendors. For more information about True Circuits products, visit www.truecircuits.com/tci_technology.html.
About Ubicom
Ubicom, Inc. is making ubiquitous communications a reality, through
wireless network processor and software platforms that enable all
electronic devices to be connected to each other - securely,
cost-effectively and transparently. With headquarters in Mountain
View, California, Ubicom also has offices in Belgium, Taiwan and Hong
Kong.
About True Circuits
True Circuits develops and markets a broad range of PLLs, DLLs and
other mixed-signal hard macros for ICs for the semiconductor, systems
and electronics industries. TCI's robust state-of-the-art circuits,
methodical and proven design strategy and its close association with
the world's leading silicon fabrication vendors, allow the company to
quickly and reliably create new and innovative designs in a variety of
advanced process technologies.
True Circuits is headquartered at 4962 El Camino Real, Suite 206, Los Altos,
California 94022 and can be found on the web at www.truecircuits.com.
Product inquiries can be made by calling the company directly at (650)
691-2500 or via e-mail at sales@truecircuits.com.
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