Milpitas, California-headquartered LSI Logic Corp has unveiled a portfolio of Asynchronous Transfer Mode Specific Standard Products based on its new ATMizer architecture. The ATMizer is an Asynchronous Transfer Mode network controller that performs the segmentation and reassembly function, and all Asynchronous Transfer Mode adaptation layers, as well as the new layers currently being standardised by the ATM Forum, says LSI. At the heart of the ATMizer is a 32-bit Asynchronous Transfer Processing Unit derived from the company’s MIPS Technologies Inc RISC family. The embedded Asynchronous Processing Unit enables users to implement an Asynchronous Transfer Mode termination in a single device, and update signalling, congestion and traffic management algorithms in firmware as the standard evolves, it says. The first products are the LX-25 family, targetted at Network Interface Cards for a variety of bus and form factors, and the BX family, targeted at backbone applications. The LX range will cost from $79 and the BX from $175 in 10,000 volumes.
