SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 02/17/15 — Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) market leader, today announced that the latest Quartus® II software v14.1 from Altera Corporation supports designs with Cypress–s and Altera–s . The release supports simulation, compilation and timing for designs with Cypress–s QDR-IV SRAMs, which are the market–s highest performance, standardized networking memory solution. The software support enables customers to design in a QDR-IV SRAM at its fastest clock speeds and achieve the high Random Transaction Rate (RTR) required to achieve 100-400 Gigabit line card rates.
RTR, the number of fully random memory accesses per second, is the critical memory performance metric for increased line card and switching rates. The bottleneck for reaching increased line card rates is the processing of look-up tables, statistics and state counters stored in memory, as well as scheduling functions. QDR-IV devices deliver the RTR required to support these functions, enabling higher bandwidth and higher quality video streams. Cypress–s QDR-IV SRAM is capable of operating in burst-of-two (High Performance) or banked burst-of-two (Xtreme Performance) modes, delivering the fastest clock speeds and highest RTR of all QDR SRAMs. Using Altera–s Quartus II software v14.1, the banked burst-of-two mode can be operated at a maximum frequency of 1,066 MHz with an RTR of 2,132 million transactions per second (MT/s), while the standard burst-of-two mode can be operated at a maximum frequency of 667 MHz and an RTR of 1,334 MT/s.
“QDR-IV memories provide the high bandwidth necessary for emerging telecommunications and data center networking applications that require 400 Gbps,” said Argy Krikelis, strategic marketing architect, Altera Corporation. “Working closely with Cypress has enabled Altera to support customers to build systems that will use QDR-IV SRAM memories together with our Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs to meet next-generation system requirements.”
“With Altera–s latest Quartus II software release, our customers can quickly and efficiently design next-generation networking systems with Cypress QDR-IV SRAMs and their Arria 10 FPGAs,” said Oliver Pohland, business unit director for Synchronous SRAMs at Cypress. “Our QDR-IV SRAMs set a new benchmark for RTR performance, opening the door for 100-400 Gigabit line card rates for routers and switches.”
Cypress offers QDR-IV SRAMs in 144- and 72-Mb densities. The 144-Mb CY7C41xxKV and 72-Mb CY7C40xxKV QDR-IV SRAMs are shipping in production quantities today and are available in a 361-ball Flip Chip Ball Grid Array (FCBGA) package.
QDR-IV was developed in the QDR consortium, whose members jointly define SRAM standards to enable multiple sources and supply stability. More information on Cypress QDR SRAM is available at .
Cypress holds the No. 1 global market share position in SRAMs — the only memories that deliver the performance, reliability, and long product lifecycles vital to the evolution of the Internet and mission-critical systems everywhere. Built on more than 30 years of experience and a strong IP portfolio, Cypress SRAMs offer the world–s best speed and power performance and the highest reliability to meet the requirements of the most-demanding systems. Cypress is also the only vendor to offer products in every SRAM category, including synchronous and asynchronous, dual-port, and nonvolatile. Cypress SRAMs are widely used in networking, industrial, automotive, military/aerospace, and medical systems around the world, and the company is working with customers and partners to innovate new SRAM categories that address the performance demands of tomorrow–s Internet and the Internet of Things.
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Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, PSoC 4 and PSoC 5LP programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is the world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including CapSense touch sensing, TrueTouch touchscreens, and trackpad solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is a world leader in USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at .
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