Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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Faraday announces silicon proven 3G serial ATA technology
December 15, 2003
Faraday Technology Corporation, a silicon IP and fabless ASIC company,
announced the silicon proven results of its 3G Serial ATA solutions. Based
on UMC's 0.18um standard CMOS logic process, Faraday's Serial ATA II PHY
test chips not only achieved first pass silicon success, but also exhibited
exceptional performance characteristics. Both PHY and Controller IPs are
fully compliant with the Serial ATA II standard, which is the extension
of the Serial ATA 1.0 specification.
"We are very excited about the test results", said Mr. Sheanyih Chiou,
CTO of Faraday Technology. "Proving our design in 0.18um while everybody
else is struggling with the challenges of developing Serial ATA solutions
on 0.13um, gives our customers tremendous time-to-market and cost advantages".
Serial ATA II technology is gaining popularity, but because of its high
analog front end frequency, virtually every vendor implementing it has
had to do so in 0.13um process. However, the high overall costs and longer
lead times associated with 0.13um process technology prevent Serial ATA
II from wide deployment other than in server storage. Faraday has leveraged
its world-class mixed-signal design expertise to make this leading edge
technology available in 0.18um process for all applications.
Besides process technology selection, several architectural decisions
also make Faraday's Serial ATA II solution extremely attractive. By using
a tracking architecture, where clock-data recovery (CDR) is not passed
over into the digital domain much later, the PHY can respond very quickly
to changes in signaling, producing a very low jitter of less than 60 ps.
Also, by avoiding the use of programmable processors, the entire digital
design is a mere 25,000 gates including buffers. This makes Faraday's
Serial ATA II controller one of the smallest in the world.
Faraday is the first company delivering both Serial ATA II PHY (Physical
Layer) and Controller (Link & Transport Layer) IP solutions. To speed
up customer's system development process, Faraday also offers its customers
the evaluation board with both Serial ATA II PHY and controller IPs on
it.
"We are seeing rapid adoption of Serial ATA technologies by leading chipset
and motherboard vendors," said Mr. Frank Lin, Sales Vice President of
Faraday Technology. "Our successful silicon proven result on UMC 0.18um
process opens up opportunities for our customers to move into all segments
of storage applications, down to portable consumer devices."
Availability:
Faraday's 0.18um Serial ATA II PHY and Controller IPs are available for
verification and licensing now. The 0.13um version of Faraday 3G-SATA
PHY IP will also be available in 2004. The North American price for single
usage license of 0.18um Serial ATA II PHY is $425,000 USD. A certain amount
of the license fee will be included in the NRE fee for ASIC customers.
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