MoSys Launches MSR576 IC for Networking, Communications and other High-Access Applications

MoSys, Inc recently announced that it has released its first generation Bandwidth Engine IC device. The high-speed serial access MSR576 product is optimized for high data and access rates in networking, compute acceleration and video processing applications. Supported by leading providers of ASICs and FPGAs, the innovative architecture improves the system, power cost and board area by over 2.5 times and also provides greater than two Giga-accesses per second (GA/s) which is twice the performance of other competing solutions.

In a release, Jag Bolaria, Senior Analyst for The Linley Group, said, "Internet traffic continues to expand dramatically, driven by video content, cloud computing, emerging economies and smartphones. In order to ensure capacity and user experience, routers and switches must support aggregate line card capacities of hundreds of Gigabits per second. Serial technologies, such as the MoSys (News - Alert) Bandwidth Engine, will help system designers develop high-capacity line cards."

Bandwidth Engine ICs provide fast, intelligent access for accelerating packet header information processing and supports high-data rate traffic in communications and networks systems. The device is ideal for network services, video processing, classification, intrusion prevention and detection, and traffic management applications. The product combines its multi-100 Gigabit per second (Gbps) capability with significant numbers of data accesses, thereby enabling equipment manufacturers to deliver line card solutions and meet high quality of service and increased traffic demands.

John Monson, vice president of marketing for MoSys remarked, "The rapid expansion in the number of users, bandwidth per user and new services translates to increased demand for systems that can sustain packet rates of over 150 million packets per second with dozens of data accesses per packet. Bandwidth Engine addresses critical memory bandwidth and access rate bottlenecks that limit the processing, monitoring, and management of network traffic, while enabling support for increased data rates and added intelligence with reduced board space and lower power."

The device consists of 576 Megabits of high-density, high-performance memory along with onboard ALUs for delivering 2.7 GA/s and 1 Giga-operations per second. The Bandwidth Engine supports high data rates of 198 Gbps and provides the essential data integrity and reliability that enterprise and carrier applications demand. The device has an efficient GigaChip Interface transport protocol with an automatic error recovery mechanism. MoSys' Bandwidth Engine IC is currently available for production.