Kontron To Design With Cavium Octeon II Processors
Kontron intends to design with Octeon II processors from Cavium Networks, a provider of semiconductor products that allow intelligent processing. Clients will be able to upgrade their systems with the highest packet processor performance, unprecedented scalability and added virtualisation functionalities, to support their multiple network infrastructure equipment such as media gateway- and wireless base station-type applications. These multi-core processing units will provide much more flexibility in xTCA platforms, and create a broader range of target applications using COTS components in the network. Multiple 10GbE I/O capability combined with DDR3 memory bandwidth will enable system designs for LTE and other core network elements. SRIO is supported in the Octeon II CN63XX, so this type of architecture will also allow use in combination with other DSP-intensive applications in MicroTCA platforms. The Cavium Networks Octeon II internet application processor (IAP) family is design...