Posted: 9/14/98

Lucent Technologies' Microelectronics Group (Allentown, Pa.) has announced two new ATM software cores for its Orca FPGAs and updates to three other ATM and PCI cores that the company introduced last year.

The newest members to Lucent's Customer Solution Cores (CSCs) are two ATM available-bit-rate (ABR) CSCs from Modelware: the ABR resource management (RM) cell processor and the ABR RM cell manager.

The cores are said to work with Lucent's Atlanta ATM-switch chip set to provide resource-management-cell relative-rate and explicit-rate marking, according to the Bell Laboratories Dynamic Maximum Rate Control Algorithm (DMRCA), or a user-provided proprietary algorithm.

Lucent also announced updates to the Modelware ATM Utopia I/II Slave and ATM Utopia I/II Master CSCs for Orca FPGAs. Modelware has increased operating speeds for both CSCs from 33 to 50 MHz.

Updates to Lucent's PCI Master CSC demonstrate 50-MHz performance, add pinouts for compatibility with Lucent's new OR3TP12 66 MHz embedded-core PCI field-programmable system chip (FPSC) and upgrade the CSC for use with the most recent releases of synthesis and Orca Foundry software.

The new and updated Customer Solution Cores are available now. The ATM Customer Solution Cores are available directly from Modelware. The PCI CSCs are available from Lucent Technologies.

The ATM Utopia I/II slave is $8,000, the ATM Utopia I/II master is $11,000, the ATM ABR RM cell manager is $30,000, the ATM ABR RM cell processor is $50,000 and the PCI master is $7,995.

Aspec Technology Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has announced an expanded licensing agreement with Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) under which Cadence can access Aspec's 0.25-micron Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) libraries for design services. The agreement builds on an earlier license that gave Cadence Design Services access to Aspec's 0.5- and 0.35 micron libraries.

Aspec's 0.25-micron SIP libraries include more than 1,000 cell-based I/Os, memories, macrocells, cores and complex functions.

Advanced RISC Machines (Los Gatos, Calif.) has released the ARM Debugger for Unix (ADU), a GUI-based debugger for ARM Software Development hosted on Solaris. The company claims the tool provides an easy-to-use, point-and-click, windowed debugging environment.

ADU supports all of the standard interfaces to ARM's ARMulator instruction-accurate simulator as well as EmbeddedICE, the Angel debug monitor and other third-party hardware debug tools. The new debugger is available as an add-on to ARM's existing software development tool kit, the ARM SDT.

The ARM Debugger for Unix add-on is $2,000; the base product, SDT, is $4,500.

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