Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.) and MontaVista Software, Inc. today announced a partnership to provide Linux support for IDT's integrated communications processors targeted for existing and emerging applications including Ethernet switching, gateways,… wireless access points, and virtual private networks (VPNs). As the first deliverable of the partnership, the MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, MontaVista's flagship product, has been initially optimized to support IDT's RC32334 integrated communications processor and 79S334 evaluation board, with plans to support additional IDT processors. Customers can utilize IDT's integrated communications processors and the robust and scalable development environment from MontaVista Software to design, develop and deploy their applications.

Building on the success as the leading provider of communications processors in the Ethernet switching market, IDT's RC32334 integrated communications processor, based on the 32-bit MIPS instruction set architecture (ISA), is a system on a chip (SOC) solution designed to offer ideal price/performance for emerging embedded systems applications. The device operates at up to 150 MHz and features an on-chip, industry-standard PCI bridge operating at up to 66 MHz; a flexible memory controller; and standard general-purpose system modules including a DMA controller, interrupt controller and serial ports. The 79S334 evaluation board has multiple PCI slots to allow a variety of off-the-shelf peripherals, such as Ethernet cards, to be used in system design and debug.

IDT's portfolio of integrated communications processors includes the RC32355 and RC32351 processors, as well as the RC32334 and RC32332 devices, and provides designers of communications systems a range of choices as the base for cost-conscious embedded applications.

 
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