Cicada Unveils PHY Transceiver

AUSTIN, Texas -- Cicada Semiconductor Corporation, a technology leader providing silicon solutions for broadband communications, released today the SimpliPHY(TM) CIS8204, the first component in a series of 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet over copper transceivers. Cicada's new device, now in demonstration at the Networld+Interop tradeshow in Las Vegas, is the industry's most advanced Quad port Gigabit Ethernet over copper physical layer (PHY) device. For the first time in the evolution of Ethernet networks, the CIS8204's extremely low power dissipation of less than 1 Watt per port enables pervasive, low cost deployment of Gigabit Ethernet to desktop PCs, throughout data centers, and in rapidly emerging Storage Area Networks (SAN).

"The introduction of the CIS8204 represents a remarkable engineering milestone in the creative application of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and mixed-signal technology to solve the bandwidth bottleneck caused by ever increasing Internet and Intranet traffic," stated Nicholas van Bavel, president and CEO of Cicada Semiconductor. "Our Quad port PHY device provides communication systems designers with a solution which allows them to quickly and simply develop 24 and 48 port switches for Gigabit Ethernet that are as power, cost, and form factor efficient as their Fast Ethernet predecessors. Enabling this breakthrough design-in simplicity to the systems designer is an advanced DSP engine which delivers an unprecedented 1,000 GOPS (1,000 Billion Operations per Second)."

Cicada Semiconductor Inc.