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