IDT extends ‘industry leading’ portfolio of RapidIO switches

According to the mixed signal specialist, the CPS-1432 interconnect solution is suitable for multiprocessing applications and provides customers an upgrade path for its Gen1 RapidIO solutions. It is smaller in form factor and consumes 40% less power per 10Gigabit of data. The device supports eight x4 ports at up to 6.25Gbaud per lane, which the company claims provides twice the performance per port compared to its Serial RapidIO 1.3 switches. The CPS 1432 is also designed to offer more than twice the bandwidth per port compared to 10Gigabit Ethernet switches and has an 'industry leading' latency of 100ns. It was recently selected by Curtiss-Wright Controls for use in its latest dsp platform for the rugged deployed embedded military market. "We chose the IDT CPS 1432 for our CHAMP-AV8 6U VPX dsp board to aggregate traffic between dual quad core Intel Core i7 processors onto a RapidIO backplane," said Lynne Bamford, vice president and general manager for Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. "Combined with IDT's PCI Express Gen2 to S-RIO Gen2 bridging technology, the switch enables us to deliver the market's highest performance open standard 6U VPX form factor signal processing solution."