Full-Speed ADSL Chipset Taps CPU's Processing Power

June 1, 2000
Claimed to be the first such devices optimized for PCs, notebooks, workstations, PDAs and Internet appliances, the full-speed Scalable ADSL Modem (SAM) chipset uses a host-based architecture that enables part of its ADSL processing to be performed on

Claimed to be the first such devices optimized for PCs, notebooks, workstations, PDAs and Internet appliances, the full-speed Scalable ADSL Modem (SAM) chipset uses a host-based architecture that enables part of its ADSL processing to be performed on the unused cycles of a system's host CPU. By using this patented technology, full-speed (8 Mbps downstream, 640 Kbps upstream) asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) modems reportedly can be built at half the cost and power dissipation of other solutions-- in addition, the chipset can achieve upstream rates as high as 768 Kbps.
The chipset is made up of the i80134 analog front-end chip in a 64-pin LQFP and the i90816 digital controller in a 160-pin PQFP, plus host software for doing the ADSL processing on the system's CPU. The software comes on a CD-ROM as assembled Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT4.0 code. And the SAM chipset automatically detects all ADSL central office standards, including ITU G.dmt, ANSI T1.413 Issue 2 and ITU G.lite. The set plus software costs $25 each/1000.

Company: INTEGRATED TELECOM EXPRESS INC. (ITEX)

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