QDR SRAM Memory is Adopted by the Network Processing Forum For the Look-Aside Interface Specification

Quad Data Rate™ (QDR™) SRAM architecture received additional industry support as the preferred SRAM architecture for next-generation networking applications. The QDR SRAM co-development team today announced the QDR interface was adopted by the Network Processing Forum (NP Forum) as the standard for Phase 1 of the Look–Aside Interface (LA-1). The LA-1 specification passed the NP Forum’s Principal Member Ballot on May 24, 2002.

The NP Forum was organized to facilitate and accelerate the development of next-generation networking and telecommunications products based on network processing technologies. The LA-1 Interface is designed to offload certain tasks from the Network Processing Element (NPE) and is targeted primarily, though not exclusively, at lookup and memory-based coprocessors. QDR SRAM is one of the high-performance technologies on which LA-1 is based.

Benefits driving the adoption of the QDR architecture in the industry

• QDR SRAM is a high-performance communications memory standard for network switches, routers, and other communications applications
• QDR memory is a proven technology which helps reduce implementation risk while maximizing flexibility for end customers, NPE vendors, and the Look-Aside Co-Processor vendors combined
• The QDR SRAM Co-Development Team continues to enable the networking marketplace with QDRII, its next generation family of products

For more information, please see the press release. For information on the NP Forum, please visit www.npforum.org

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