Wintegra Adds DSL Code

AUSTIN, Texas -- Wintegra™ Inc., the fabless semiconductor company focused on the access infrastructure market, today announced the availability of the Wintegra Linux Services (WLS) DSL Control Path solution. Already leading the market in new DSL infrastructure equipment development, Wintegra is working with the majority of IP-DSLAM providers in developing state-of-the-art, IP-based DSL equipment. WLS enables these vendors of DSL access products to design, build, productize, and modify systems in the minimum time possible. This time-to-market advantage is achieved by building on the extensive Wintegra hardware and software solutions available and adding full Linux services running on the WinPath™ embedded MIPS core.

Wintegra’s software solution fully addresses the three essential components of a DSL system, Data Path Software, an Application Interface, and Control Plane Code. Wintegra’s Data Path Software (DPS) is production worthy, field-hardened code, shipping in volume for over 3 years. The Application Interface is a C-level calling structure known as WDDI, WinPath Device Driver Interface, and has also been in full production for 3 years. WDDI is an industry-leading interface that provides a highly flexible, yet sophisticated window into the hardware and software internals of WinPath silicon. With the addition of WLS, the feature-rich DSL Control Plane package, Wintegra now supplies a turn-key package of state-of-the-art hardware and software, resulting in superior system performance and accelerated time to market.

WLS is a high-level, object-oriented software package that runs on top of Wintegra’s WinPath Device Driver Interface (WDDI). It is a DSL reference application based on the popular embedded Linux operating system. This system implements a VLAN-aware bridge, ATM and Ethernet interfaces and all relevant control stacks. WLS can be configured as a DSLAM uplink, a line card or as a mini-DSLAM. This Linux-based application code has been optimized to utilize Wintegra’s dedicated data path packet processing engines which handle the Layer 2/3 connections, enabling the integrated MIPS core to handle the Operating System and control layer functions.

“Wintegra has broadened our already compelling DSL offering by providing a control path software solution that readily complements our rich data path code and application interface,” says Arnon Mordoh, VP of Software Tools for Wintegra. “Complete DSL solutions can be quickly implemented with this powerful combination of production-quality data path code and flexible Linux-based control software.”

Wintegra Inc.