Agere Systems Inc. (Allentown, PA) announced six semiconductor chips that improve the capacity, size, total system costs and product delivery schedules of existing and next-generation wireless and wireline telecommunications equipment. The APP550TM (5Gbits/s), APP530TM (2.5Gbits/s), TAAD Lite, TAAD UltraLite, SAR-1K and SAR-500 chips perform various communications functions with voice, data and video signals, including traffic management (TM), segmentation and reassembly (SAR) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).
The APP550TM and APP530TM chips perform TM, SAR, ATM voice and data packet processing; operations, administration and maintenance; traffic policing; traffic shaping; buffer management; and data modification capabilities. The SAR-1K and SAR-500 chips perform SAR functions and, like the TAAD Lite and TAAD UltraLite, target third-generation wireless base stations and digital subscriber line access multiplexers.
The TAAD Lite and TAAD UltraLite chips each integrate 12 chips into one, and are suitable for third-generation, wireless base stations and digital subscriber line access multiplexers. The chips are less than 1in² in size and house approximately 140 million transistors.
The SAR-1K and SAR-500, and the TAAD Lite and TAAD UltraLite chips are available now and range in price from $125 to $300 in quantities of 10,000. The APP550TM and APP530TM are priced at $575 and $295, respectively, in quantities of 10,000.
