BusinessWire
October 21, 2003 06:30 AM US Pacific Timezone

HyWire Ltd. Collaborates With Industry Leaders To Offer Search Engine Solution to Networking Customers; Cooperation Provides Customers With Complete Design Solution

Network Processors Conference West 2003

SAN JOSE, Calif. & NETANYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003--HyWire Ltd. today announced it is collaborating with Infineon Technologies and Xilinx to provide search engine solutions for HyWire's network equipment customers. HyWire has been working with these industry leaders to provide complementary products or technology that support the company's new search engine solution. In doing so, customers will have a wide-range of components from which to choose to best meet their system solutions.
HyWire recently introduced its HyCognito(TM) family of soft cores and embedded array-based versions of its Search Engine Managers (SEMs). SEMs are deterministic hardware processing devices, specialized to perform the company's patented algorithms and capable of running up to 400 million searches per second (Msps). By combining the SEMs with industry-standard DRAMs, HyWire can support huge search and classification tables at the lowest possible cost. HyWire's solution overcomes DRAM bandwidth limitations to allow customers to select the most appropriate DRAM to meet their system cost/performance requirements. Selecting RLDRAMs, for instance, would represent the best cost/performance option that exceeds TCAM levels of performance.

HyWire's SEM devices are compatible with RLDRAM(TM) (Reduced Latency DRAM) components manufactured by Infineon and Micron. And because the SEM can be implemented in a variety of "media" such as an FPGA or gate array, HyWire's soft core customers can use an FPGA solution from Xilinx for low-volume, cost-sensitive designs.

About the collaboration, Bill Lu, marketing manager for Infineon Technologies said, "By supporting HyWire's unique approach to search engine solutions, we not only open our RLDRAM products to new markets, but we also help solve the bandwidth problem inherent in other search engine designs."

HyWire's soft cores will be demonstrated using a Xilinx FPGA, at the Network Processors Conference, October 21-23 in San Jose. Amit Dhir, senior manager of Wired Networks and Telecom in Strategic Solutions Marketing at Xilinx comments, "An FPGA implementation gives networking customers additional design options. It makes sense for HyWire to provide such an option especially for designs that need a quick time to market."

HyWire plans further collaborations and alliances for memory devices, gate arrays, embedded arrays and ASICs. "We want our customers to have many device options for our SEMs," said Moshe Stark, founder and CEO of HyWire. "It's important for us to establish a network of strategic and cooperative partners that support our soft core and system solutions."

HyWire will be showing its FPGA-based demo board operating at 100 Msps on huge (millions deep) IPv6 and IPv4 tables at the Network Processors Conference at Parkside Hall, 180 Park Ave. San Jose, October 21-23; Booth #622.

About HyWire

HyWire provides search engine solutions for forwarding, classification, billing and security applications. HyWire search solutions utilize DRAMs to facilitate the implementation of massive-storage at the lowest cost possible at search rates up to 400 Msps. HyWire products are available in various forms, such as licensed FPGA-embedded soft cores, embedded arrays and custom-designed silicon chips. HyWire has headquarters and research and development facilities in Netanya, Israel. Its sales and marketing operations are located in San Jose, Calif. For more information about HyWire visit www.hywire.com.

RLDRAM is a trademark of Infineon Technologies AG in various countries, and is used by Micron Technology, Inc. under license from Infineon. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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