TriCN and Tallika Announce Collaboration on Interoperable Full PCI Express Solution

Companies' PHY and Link Level Controller Products To Establish Compatibility  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 8, 2004 - TriCN, a leading developer of intellectual property (IP) for high-speed semiconductor interface technology, and Tallika Corporation, a leading provider of Silicon Intellectual Property and Professional Services for consumer, networking, computing, and storage markets, today announced that they have been working on a collaborative effort that will demonstrate the interoperability of their PCI Express IP solutions. The effort is targeted at delivering a seamless integrated low risk solution to IC developers.

TriCN's PCI-Express PHY and Tallika's PCI-Express Endpoint Controller provide a compelling set of features for developers seeking to incorporate a complete PCI-Express solution into their design. TriCN's PHY's offer the most area and power efficient designs in the industry, including a true X1 lane configuration. Tallika's PCI-Express Endpoint Controller features a complete implementation of PCI-Express Transaction, Data Link, MAC-PHY and Configuration layers for endpoint devices, with extremely low latency, and the industry's lowest RAM instance count solution.

"We are excited about working with the Tallika team to provide a full PCI-Express solution.," said Ron Nikel, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of TriCN. "They have demonstrated great skill at developing technology targeted towards complex high-bandwidth applications, such as communications and security. Their PCI-Express Endpoint combined with the TriCN PCI-Express PHY will solve a great need for this and many other markets."

"We chose TriCN as a PCI-Express PHY partner based on their track record as high performance interface specialists," said Satish Anand, Co-Founder and CTO of Tallika Corporation. "Their small area, low power PCI-Express PHY design is an excellent match for our low latency Endpoint Controller. We believe the combination will be extremely attractive to customers."


Availability
TriCN's PCI-Express PHY is currently available in the TSMC 130nm process. The combined offering of TriCN's PCI-Express PHY and Tallika's PCI-Express Endpoint Controller will be available Q3 2004.


About Tallika Corporation
Tallika Corporation is a leading provider of Silicon Intellectual Property and Professional Services for consumer, networking, computing, and storage markets. Tallika's core team has taken several projects from Concept-To-Production including multiple 50 Million+ transistor ASICs with first time production ready silicon. Tallika's team is comprised of industry veterans from Companies such as Philips Semiconductor/VLSI Technology, Corrent, Intel, Conexant, Agere, Ross Technologies and Synopsys. Tallika's core expertise includes multi-gigabit Internet Security (Firewall/VPN/Intrusion Detection), ARM/MIPS/ARC based multi-processor SOC's, Industry standard busses (PCI Express/PCI-X, SPI 3, Utopia 3, SPI 4, AHB, PLB, etc), analog/mixed signal designs, and memory interfaces. For more information, please visit Tallika's website at www.tallika.com.


About TriCN
Founded in 1997, San Francisco, California-based TriCN is a leading developer of high- performance semiconductor interface intellectual property (IP). The company provides a complete portfolio of IP for maximizing data throughput on and off the chip. All products are designed using rigorous signal integrity and timing analysis to ensure first time power-up success. Products include Base I/O libraries for pad-ring creation, high-performance memory and networking interfaces, multi-function I/O's compatible with multiple interface protocols, and multi-gigabit PHY products. TriCN's customers range from fabless semiconductor to systems companies and IDMs.

 
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