TPACK's role in Altera designs
Altera Corp elected to acquire the TPACK Denmark Design Center from Applied Micro April 15. TPACK's work on Optical Transport Network (OTN) standards will allow Altera to enhance its on-chip optical interface work, as well as its OTN IP acquired from Avalon Microelectronics. Altera has the option of giving customers standard products in optical communications under the SoftSilicon label, or designing highly-customized optical communication FPGAs spanning Layers 1 through 4 in the OSI protocol stack.
When TPACK was founded in 2001 in Copenhagen, the small design group specialized in the Layer 2/3 hybrid switching known as Multi-Protocol Label Switching, which still plays an important role in telecom backbone services. But as service providers shifted to an updated Sonet standard called the Optical Transport Network, TPACK shifted its center of gravity to development of mapping and encapsulation designs that unified OTN with Metro Ethernet Forum standards. As Altera began collaborating with TPACK later in the decade, the two companies worked closely in defining FPGA-based mapping solutions.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- Aurora-like 64b/66b @14Gbps for ALTERA Devices
- Aurora-like 8b/10b @3Gbps for ALTERA Devices
- SATA Device Controller on Altera Arria II GX
- SATA Host on Altera Arria II GX
- eCPRI Altera® FPGA IP
Related Blogs
- Ensuring Integrity: The Role of SoC Security in Today's Digital World
- SiFive HiFive: The Vital Role of Development Boards in Growing The RISC-V Ecosystem + HiFive Premier P550 Update
- Imagination and Renesas Redefine the Role of the GPU in Next-Generation Vehicles
- Time-of-Flight Decoding with Tensilica Vision DSPs - AI's Role in ToF Decoding
Latest Blogs
- Cadence Achieves Successful Silicon Validation of 1st IP Test Chips on Intel 18A
- From Classical CAN and CAN FD to CAN XL: Functional Safety and Security for Next-Generation In-Vehicle Communication
- Accelerating Embedded Memory Performance with 16-bit xSPI PSRAM IP
- Why nonce reuse can break AES-GCM security in embedded systems
- PQSecure™-Agility Earns NIST CAVP Validation