Our latest press release:
Salamander Error Correction announces
1 Gbps Viterbi decoder
-- For Immediate Release --
San Diego, Calif. July 12, 2007.
Salamander Error Correction, a division of Komodo
Industries, Inc, announced today the availability of the SALxx304d, a
very high speed (1 Gbps)
Viterbi decoder for telecommunications and high speed wireless
networking applications. The
device implements the defacto industry standard constraint length 7,
rate 1/2 transparent code,
which is well suited to channels with predominantly Gaussian noise. The
device is available as
Verilog source code, and as a netlist for Xilinx FPGAs. Several
additional Viterbi decoder devices
addressing different markets and even higher throughput are expected to
be announced shortly.
A Viterbi decoder is a signal processing
component, found in virtually all wireless
telecommunications and networking products, which greatly aids in
achieving reliable
communication in the presence of signal loss and interference. The
amount of processing
required, and the inherently serial nature of the Viterbi decoding
algorithm limit most Viterbi
decoders to a sustained throughput of about 50 Mbps, maximum, and
typical devices operate in
the 1 Mbps range. The newly announced devices from Salamander Error
Correction use various
architectural innovations to achieve significantly higher sustained data
rates. The new high speed
devices compliment a broad range of Viterbi decoder products already
offered by Salamander.
"Our goal has always been to provide a
wide range of very specific, targeted products, to
address our customer’s cost/performance tradeoff as accurately as
possible," said John Boynton,
President of Salamander Error Correction. "Our very high speed Viterbi
decoder devices are
targeted at the most demanding high speed wireless applications, at
sustained throughput rates
of 1 Gbps and above."
By their very nature, wireless
communication systems are inherently unreliable. As wireless
applications mature, the need for more reliable communications at higher
speeds and lower
power continues to increase. The emerging Ultra Wide Band (UWB)
specification, for example,
calls for wireless communication at 480 Mbps. "The expectation of
wireless internet and rich
media on demand is growing, and high speed error correction is critical
to the reliable delivery of
next generation applications to consumers," said Mr. Boynton.
About Salamander Error Correction:
Salamander Error Correction, a division of Komodo Industries, Inc.,
designs and markets Verilog
IP modules for the telecommunications and data storage industries. The
company is located in
San Diego, California. Their website is located at
www.salamander-ecc.com, and they can be
contacted at
sales@salamander-ecc.com.
Contact:
John Boynton
Salamander Error Correction
5330 Carroll Canyon Rd
San Diego, CA 92121
(858) 373-2112
Fax: (858) 373-1224
Our previous press releases are archived
below:
Salamander Error Correction announces 5
Gbps Viterbi decoder
Salamander Error Correction announces MAP
decoder line
Salamander Error Correction announces
SOVA decoder line
Salamander announces very high speed Reed-Solomon
decoder
Salamander Error Correction announces
WiMAX turbo product code
Salamander Error Correction introduces
WiMAX turbo code
Salamander announces Reed-Solomon /
Viterbi solution for WiMAX
Salamander Error Correction announces
CCSDS coding solution
Salamander Error Correction introduces
Viterbi decoder design service
Salamander introduces Reed-Solomon code
design service
Salamander Error Correction introduces
Turbo code design service
Salamander Error
Correction announces CCSDS turbo code
Salamander Error
Correction announces 3GPP2 turbo code
Salamander Error
Correction announces 3GPP turbo code
Salamander
introduces Viterbi decoders for space applications
Salamander
introduces Reed-Solomon decoder for space applications
Salamander Error
Correction announces Viterbi decoder line
Salamander Error
Correction announces Reed-Solomon line
