PMC-Sierra Teams With Marvell

BURNABY, British Columbia -- PMC-Sierra (NASDAQ: PMCS) today announced the availability of the Ocelot-G 6U CompactPCI® evaluation board for PMC-Sierra's 500 MHz RM7000B' MIPS-based CPU and Marvell's GT-64240 Discovery' system controller. Both chips are featured on the Ocelot-G 6U CompactPCI evaluation board which was co-developed by Momentum and PMC-Sierra. The evaluation board provides system integrators with high performance, low power, hot swappable and auto-sensing features required in high-bandwidth communication system applications such as Internet core routers, wireless base stations, xDSL equipment and storage area networks (SAN).The recently announced RM7000B is PMC-Sierra's first 0.13 micron 64-bit MIPS-based processor with integrated L2 cache (see October 3, 2001 press release). Marvell's GT-64240 Discovery system controller integrates a unique crossbar fabric architecture with an array of I/O support including PCI 2.2 and 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet. The RM7000 processor and GT-64240 system controller interconnect via the MIPS-based processor's SysAD bus, which supports the RM7000 bus protocols for maximum processor-to-peripheral communications bandwidth. The combined functionality enables the Ocelot-G CompactPCI evaluation board to easily service 5 Ethernet ports, two of which are at Gigabit speed, and up to 1 Gbyte of SDRAM memory. The new platform is supported with VxWorks', Linux, and OpenBSD operating systems. "As PMC-Sierra continues to introduce 64-bit MIPS-based processor upgrades, complete evaluation boards are required to enable customers to reach their time-to-market goals," said Tom Riordan, vice president and general manager of PMC-Sierra's MIPS Processor Division. "With the new RM7000B processor and Marvell Discovery system controller, the Ocelot-G evaluation board provides system integrators with a Compact PCI single board computer that rivals anything on the market in terms of performance, power consumption and I/O flexibility." PMC-Sierra Inc. Marvell Technology Group Ltd.