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“AMCC has a rich set of processor solutions that target the networked storage systems market, and Wasabi provides the comprehensive portfolio of software building blocks that complement their solutions,” said Frank G. Logan, III, Wasabi’s President and CEO. "Wasabi’s family of products range from core network OS to protocol stacks such as iSCSI, and up through complete, turnkey storage solutions. The combination of Wasabi Systems’ software and AMCC’s embedded processor platforms allow OEMs to accelerate their time to market for new products.”
”We are delighted that Wasabi has released BSD for the 440SPe processor," said Charlie Ashton, director of software at AMCC. “The 440SPe continues to gain design-wins in a wide variety of high-performance storage applications and several of our customers plan to use BSD in their products. We value our partnership with Wasabi and look forward to their support of additional AMCC platforms in the future.”
The AMCC 440SPe is the first processor to offer three independent PCI Express interfaces and one PCI-X version 2.0 interface, and is ideally suited for Host-Attached RAID controllers and storage area networking (SAN) equipment. The 440SPe supports one 8-lane PCI Express upstream interface and two 4-lane downstream interfaces. In addition, the 440SPe supports a 64-bit PCI-X interface, which operates at double data rate (DDR266), with a peak bandwidth of 2.13GBps. The PCI Express and PCI-X interfaces can function as an opaque PCI Express to PCI Express or PCI Express to PCI-X bridge, allowing data to be transferred directly between these buses. The processor’s CoreConnect™ 128-bit Processor Local Bus (PLB) is implemented with a two-way crossbar architecture; each segment has separate 128-bit read and write data buses that may operate concurrently, providing up to 12.8GBps of total on-chip bandwidth at 200MHzMHz. For storage RAID applications the 440SPe offers a high performance DMA engine, RAID 5 and RAID 6 acceleration hardware, and a high bandwidth DDR2 memory controller, which are optimized to support high performance RAID systems.
About AMCC AMCC is a global leader in embedded Power Architecture™ processing, optical transport and storage solutions. Our products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port count SATA RAID controllers enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.
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