GDA Positioning to Make a Major Impact in 3GPP and WiMAX/LTE Being a Power Architecture VAR

-- GDA Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of configurable, reliable and production-proven Intellectual Property (IP) solutions and services for Communication, Storage and Consumer markets, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to become an IBM Power Architecture Power Design Center. The agreement provides GDA the right to directly sublicense PowerPC processor cores as part of its IP and Services offerings. GDA customers can take advantage of GDA's expertise in developing SoC's utilizing Power Architecture-based processor cores.  

Currently the agreement covers the PowerPC 460S, a high-performance CPU core, and the 405S, a medium-performance CPU core. Both cores are cache configurable to meet the specific requirements of the SoC application, and include a set of latency-sensitive native CoreConnect peripherals with a PowrePC license. An optional floating point unit is available for the 460S. GDA plans to "harden these cores" for proven, reliable integration into SoCs. Hardened 460 and 405 cores will be optimized for performance, power, and size for specific technologies and applications.  

New applications like Online Gaming, Web 2.0 and Mobile TV are increasing the data usage significantly. These applications have live streaming of data that promotes 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to work on the Long-Term Evolution (LTE). LTE is the next generation of GSM/EDGE and High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network technologies. GDA plans to significantly increase throughput by enabling PowerPC-based LTE stacks and LTE base stations (eNode B). GDA plans to offer complete hardware and software components based on PowerPC Architecture that will deliver superior Quality of Service (QoS) for WiMAX/LTE systems required by applications like IPTV and VOIP.

"GDA is excited to be Value Added Reseller (VAR) of the Power Architecture as it will be able to reduce risk and cost of its customers' SoC by hardening PowerPC cores. Both 460S and 405S are key in applications such as servers, 3GPP, VOIP and Mobile TV where GDA will be playing an important role," said Ravi Thummarukudy, VP and General Manager of IC and IP division at GDA. "GDA is strategically positioned to accelerate SoC designs by improving time to market and complementing the design with its high-performance IP's like Serial Rapid IO, PCI-Express and Fast Ethernet."

"Customers around the world are putting Power Architecture to work in their products, in their offerings, and for their customers," said Bernard Meyerson, IBM Vice Presidient of Strategic Alliances. "The time-tested, market-proven, highly scalable nature of the Power Architecture fits extremely well with their objectives of performance, time to market, scalability and software protection. GDA is a Power Design Center that can add unique value on top of Power Architecture, and will offer their customers some of the most complete solutions in the market."

GDA IP blocks are validated and certified by standard consortiums such as PCI-SIG PlugFest, HyperTransport consortium, UNH and RTA. Complete interoperability with major PHY vendors, exhaustive verification with major verification partners and availability of 24/7 support and services make the GDA offering the most reliable and complete IP solution in the market place.

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