A Low-Latency, High-Bandwidth Ethernet Switch Chip

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Company Overview

Fabless Semiconductor Company (50+ people)

Formed out of Caltech (1/00)

Backed by top-tier investors

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Shipping two low-latency product families today

FocalPoint: an Ethernet Switch Chip The world’s most powerful Ethernet switch chip • Highest port density (24 10GE ports) • Lowest latency (200ns) • Highest performance (240Gbps) • Most power efficient (1,000 64 bit counters

• Flexible link agg -- 12 port trunks • Fat tree support -- HW learning, aging • Stacking -- In server clustering

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Fabric Chip

Fabric Chip

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MAC A

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FocalPoint Chip Plot Over 100 million transistors Ethernet Ethernet Port Port Logic Logic -- Phy Phy (SerDes) (SerDes) -- PCS PCS -- MAC MAC

RapidArray RapidArray Memory Memory

Nexus Nexus Crossbar Crossbar -- Terabit Terabit capacity capacity -- 3ns 3ns latency latency

Scheduler Scheduler -- 720 720 MSPS MSPS (64 (64 byte byte segments) segments) event event rate rate

MAC MAC Table Table -- 16K 16K addresses addresses

Frame Frame Control Control -- Frame Frame handler handler -- Lookup Lookup -- Statistics Statistics

Management Management -- CPU CPU interface interface

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FocalPoint Status Report FocalPoint is in production

First First packets packets sent sent (on (on the the first first day) day) Parts Parts received received from from the the foundry foundry

External External validation validation of of fully-provisioned fully-provisioned switching switching and and 200ns 200ns latency latency

Validation Validation completed completed

First First customer customer announces announces FocalPoint-based FocalPoint-based product product

Shipped Shipped first first Evaluation Evaluation Platform Platform

Production Production ramping ramping

Tape Tape Out Out

Q4, ‘05

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Q1, ‘06

Q2, ‘06

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Recent External Validation Industry-leading latency and performance, as expected

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Agenda Datacenter Interconnect Requirements FocalPoint Chip Architecture FocalPoint in Datacenter Applications

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Validated End-to-End Latency Latency comparable to specialty fabrics Lowest Ethernet latency – ever! 2.4µs, application-to-application (MPI) MX/Myrinet

MX/Ethernet

OpenIB/InfiniBand

Myricom

Fulcrum

Mellanox

Ping Pong Latency

2.4µs

2.4µs

4.0µs

Two-way data rate

2,397 MB/s

2,162 MB/s

1,902 MB/s

Switch Vendor

Lowest full iWARP latency – ever!