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posted February 16, 2004 11:28 PM
Kawasaki Microelectronics Partners with CEVA to Add Fully Compliant 1.5Gbps Serial AT
Monday February 2, 6:01 am ET
First Deployment of CEVA's Xpert-Connect SATA Application IP Delivers Complete Serial ATA solution
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Kawasaki Microelectronics, a leader in advanced yet affordable ASICs, announced today that it has partnered with CEVA Inc., (Nasdaq: CEVA - News; LSE: CVA - News), the leading licensor of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and communications IP to the semiconductor industry, to add a fully compliant 1.5Gbps Serial ATA macro to its 0.13u ASIC intellectual property (IP) portfolio.
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Kawasaki has licensed CEVA's Xpert-Connect SATA application IP for a range of storage applications such as SATA Host Controllers, SAN/NAS & RAID, and SATA Router Switch Mux (RSM) devices. Interoperability has already been achieved with leading Serial ATA drives such as the Seagate Barracuda, Western Digital Raptor and Maxtor Diamond-Plus. Customers can immediately use this macro, which incorporates both PHY and Protocol layers, to add a Serial ATA interface to their Kawasaki 0.13u ASIC designs.
"Serial ATA is replacing parallel ATA as the preferred interface for storage applications, and we needed to add support for it to meet requirements from our customers," said Hisaya Keida, general manager of the Product Marketing and Development Department of Kawasaki. "After evaluating a number of Serial ATA IP vendors, we concluded that CEVA's Xpert-Connect SATA technology was clearly the best choice because it is fully compliant, proven interoperable, and consumes only 70mW per channel power."
"We are very pleased to have partnered with Kawasaki in developing and deploying our Xpert-Connect SATA technology," said John Ryan, vice president of the Communications Business Unit of CEVA. "With the addition of our Serial ATA IP, Kawasaki now has a broad portfolio of SoC technology for storage applications. Coupling its portfolio with its affordable prices makes Kawasaki an excellent choice for storage vendors looking for an ASIC supplier."
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