Cypress Offers LLD With GFP-T

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has just announced the availability of its MetroLink2T-2™ (CYLZT0201) link-layer device (LLD) the first LLD on the market to offer transparent generic framing procedure (GFP-T). MetroLink2T-2 LLD is an intellectual property (IP) core that enables efficient mapping of packet data over synchronous data transmission on optical media (SONET) backbones. The Cypress GFP-T transport core supports two channels of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), Fibre Channel, Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON), Fibre Connectivity (FICON), or any combination of protocols over SONET. In addition, Cypress has leveraged its virtual concatenation (VC) expertise along with GFP-T features for efficient bandwidth management. The introduction of MetroLink2T-2 LLD demonstrates Cypress’s commitment to providing its customers with complete solutions for building communications linecards. By teaming MetroLink2T-2 LLD with other Cypress transport products POSIC2GVC™ OC-48/STM-16 Framer, HOTLink II™ transceiver, No Bus Latency™ (NoBL™) synchronous SRAM, ComLink™ bus interface, and programmable clocks the entire linecard datapath incorporates Cypress’s products, forming a seamless system solution and eliminating the need for additional external logic. “By adding the MetroLink LLD family to our data communications product portfolio, we are able to provide a complete solution for the packet-over-SONET transport problem,” said Christopher Norris, vice president of Cypress’s data communications division. “Our system-level solution is logically partitioned for easy design migration. This allows our customers to develop derivative linecards while re-using portions of the design, thereby significantly reducing design time, time-to-market and cost.”Cypress Semiconductor Corp.