Rambus licenses InfiniBand chip supplier

Rambus licenses InfiniBand chip supplier
By Semiconductor Business News
February 20, 2002 (4:58 p.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020220S0039

LOS ALTOS, Calif. -- In a move to expand its communications business, Rambus Inc. here today announced that it has licensed its serial link technology to Banderacom Inc., a supplier of chips for InfiniBand applications.

Bandercom has license Rambus' RaSer serial link cell for use in its IBandit target channel adaptor (TCA) product line. The IBandit-TCA is a single chip solution for the InfiniBand market.

Rambus' RaSer technology is a scalable architecture that addresses current and future serial link applications. Offered as an analog core for ASIC and ASSP designs, RaSer can be employed across a variety of different networking applications, such as backplanes, routers, switches, and other products.

"The RaSer cell, with its point-to-point, full duplex signaling meets the physical layer requirements for an InfiniBand link, and supports data rates well beyond the InfiniBand's [2.3-gigabits-per-second] link specification," said Terry Hulett , vice president of engineering for Banderacom of Austin, Texas.