Xelic Does Sonet/SDH

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Xelic, Inc., a leading provider ofNetworking Intellectual Property and Engineering Design Services todayannounced the immediate availability of their Family of SONET/SDH TransportProcessor Cores for product integration.

Xelic Transport Processor cores are available for OC-3 (XCS3F), OC-12(XCS12F), OC-48 (XCS48F), OC-192 (XCS192F), and OC-768 (XCS768F) data rates.The SONET/SDH Transport Processor Cores perform section and line overheadprocessing, align incoming SONET/SDH frames and provide overheadinterpretation with error detection and performance monitoring. The corescontain independent transmit and receive processors with optional dedicatedexternal ports for overhead insertion and extraction. A generic registerinterface is implemented for access and configuration of internal memorymapped locations.

"The Xelic family of SONET/SDH Transport Processor Cores is an integral partof our flexible product offering to provide stand alone functionality andconfigurable integration with other cores for functions such as SONET/SDHframers with pointer processing targeted for networking applications." saidDoug Bush, Director of IP Development at Xelic.

Xelic cores are developed using a modular architecture allowing customers tochoose only the functions required for their system application; this yieldsincreased flexibility in the partitioning of the overall system.

Cores are available from Xelic under a variety of flexible licensing termsand come complete with full documentation and a comprehensive suite ofself-checking tests. Core customization and integration services are alsoavailable.

Xelic Inc.