Date: 29/01/2010

New series of PCIe Applied Services Processors for storage and networking apps

Exar has made available Hifn technology 8200 series of PCI-Express Applied Services Processors (ASPs), which enables power efficient, high performance platforms scaling from SOHO to enterprise environments. The new 8200 series is suitable for storage and networking applications.

The 8200 series processors offload the computationally intensive tasks necessary to compress, deduplicate, and secure data both in block form for storage applications and packet form for networking applications.

The 8200 series architecture is capable of simultaneously encrypting, compressing, and hashing data at up to 750 Mbytes/second, which would require multiple, enterprise-class quad core, dual-threaded x86 processors to achieve the same level of performance. The 8200 series perform these tasks at a typical power of less than 2 Watts. When these types of tasks are off-loaded from the host CPU, freed-up compute cycles can be used for their intended functions such as serving web pages, or performing database searches.

"We have found that by offloading functions from the host CPU onto dedicated processors like the 8200 series, we can build more robust products that offer high-performance without impacting power consumption or sacrificing data integrity," said Ji Hao, senior hardware engineer, ZTE Corporation. "We researched all of our options for adding compression and security capabilities and the Exar 8200 series stood out as the best combination of performance, power, and cost."

The Hifn Technology 8200 series is comprised of four devices, all of which in a single pass, compress, encrypt and perform hash/authentication functions on the data, enabling the superior performance rate.
8201 - Up to 150 Mbytes/sec and .6W typical power consumption
8202 - Up to 300 Mbytes/sec and .8W typical power consumption
8203 - Up to 600 Mbytes/sec and 1.2W typical power consumption
8204 - Up to 750 Mbytes/sec and 1.9W typical power consumption

Price: OEM pricing starts at $26 in volume quantities
Availability: Now

For more details visit www.exar.com