Hitachi Selects Mindspeed’s M21452 to Manage Signal Integrity of BladeSymphony 2000 Line of Servers
Hitachi Server Chooses Mindspeed for PCI Express Signal Conditioning
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD – News), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced that Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT/TSE:6501), a leading global electronics company, has selected Mindspeed®’s M21452 to help manage signal integrity in its BladeSymphony® 2000 line of servers.
“Mindspeed is committed to providing signal integrity management solutions to market leading system developers,” said Kurt Busch, senior vice president and general manager of Mindspeed’s high-performance analog business unit. “Hitachi’s server has built a reputation as a trend setter in high-performance computer solutions. We are extremely proud to be associated with a company of such high caliber.”
“Mindspeed provides us with high-performance devices along with excellent applications and signal integrity modeling support,” stated Masahiko Tagami, general manager of Server Development in Hitachi Enterprise Server Division. “We are very pleased to be working with a vendor that is fully committed to their customers’ success.”
The M21452 a is low-power, 8 x 8 redriving crosspoint switch that minimizes jitter using a combination of advanced equalizing receivers and drivers with de-emphasis. These features enable the development of multi-gigabit channels across the most demanding backplanes. The device is packaged in a 10 x 10 mm QFN and can run off of a single 1.2V supply.
About Mindspeed Technologies
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, develops and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in the wireline and wireless network infrastructure, which includes today’s separate but interrelated and converging enterprise, broadband access, metropolitan and wide area networks. Our products are classified into three focused product families: multiservice access, high-performance analog and wide area networking communications. Our products are sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for use in a variety of network infrastructure equipment, including voice and media gateways, high-speed routers, switches, access multiplexers, cross-connect systems, add-drop multiplexers, digital loop carrier equipment, IP private branch exchanges (PBXs), optical modules, broadcast video systems and wireless base station equipment.
