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INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, Shanghai, China, 2008-04-01 - Pericom Semiconductor Corporation
(NASDAQ: PSEM), a worldwide preferred supplier of PCI Express technology used for switching,
timing, bridging and signal integrity, today announced the addition of a new industry first PCI
Express SBridge™ (serial bridge) product family offering a complete one-chip cost effective
solution for the expanding CPU to UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) I/O
market. Moxa is the first customer to incorporate Pericom’s new UART offering.
The new product family integrates a complete PCI Express interface bridge with a fully
featured multi port, multi protocol UART controller, and is targeted to volume industrial and
building control, point-of-sale, instrumentation, PDA, and GPS system I/O applications. Pericom
will showcase these new products with a ‘live’ demonstration at booth CE 002 at
the Intel Developer Forum, Shanghai International Convention Center, April 2-3, 2008.
“The UART controller market TAM is expected to grow to over 60 million ports by
the end of 2008,” according to Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at semiconductor market research
firm The Linley Group. “Pericom is well positioned to capitalize on this growth with
leading edge single chip solutions required by next generation embedded control systems.”
“Pericom’s one-chip UART solutions give MOXA the
performance, flexibility, footprint, and cost savings we require to deliver the most competitive
industrial and commercial platforms to our customers,” said Sureen Lee, director of HA
Strategic Business Unit for Moxa, Inc., a global company that designs and manufactures device
networking products for industrial automation (www.moxa.com).
“Pericom is pleased to add these three new advanced performance SBridge™ products
to our industry leading variety of PCI Express product functions,” said Bill Weir,
Pericom’s senior marketing director for Connect Products. “UART market growth is
fueled by accelerated adoption of embedded UART I/O in building control systems for HVAC,
environmental, emergency, and communications control to host CPU applications. We have completed
our beta testing and now have design wins with Tier 1 embedded controller providers, such as
Moxa.”
Key Features and Benefits:
The Pericom SBridge™ PCIe to UART family consists of three different UART port count
configurations: 2 ports (PI7C9X7952), 4 ports (PI7C9X7954), and 8 ports (PI7C9X7958). The
product family is specifically designed for low power consumption and small package size,
optimized PCB layout, fully meets the requirements of the latest PCI-SIG PCIe 1.1 and PCI 1.2
specifications, and is listed on the PCISIG certification list. Unique features include:
- Complete one-chip PCIe to high performance UART solution
- High performance 16C950 (RS-232) UART ports
- Backward compatible to 16C550/650/750/850 software
- Supports Baud rates to 62.5Mb/sec (sync mode)
- RoHS compliant and small footprint packages (PQFP and BGA)
- Customer programmable EEPROM port for ultimate flexibility
- Software drivers for major OS – Windows, Linux
In addition to displaying its new SBridge™ product family at IDF Shanghai, Pericom will
present live demonstrations of its new PCI Express to HDMI/DisplayPort switch, a Pericom PCIe
enabled video surveillance system, and display various PCIe applications cards. The
demonstrations and cards utilize Pericom’s PCIe Packet Switch, Bridge, ReDriver, Signal
Switch, and Timing products.
Pricing and Availability:
Samples, eval board and OS driver development kits are available now, with
production quantities available in May, 2008. OEM retail pricing in 10Ku quantities:
PI7C9X7952 - $5.3
PI7C9X7954 - $6.8
PI7C9X7958 - $9.5
Further information is available from Pericom sales representatives, with offices
worldwide, or by visiting www.pericom.com/pciexpress/
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