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Broadcom Simplifies Gigabit Ethernet System Designs With New 0.13-Micron QuadSquad(TM) Gigabit TransceiverIndustry-Standard RGMII With Broadcom's Unique Built-in Timing Adjustment Reduces System Layout Complexity by More Than 50-Percent   IRVINE, Calif., Oct 29, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), the leading provider of integrated circuits enabling broadband communications, today announced the latest member of its QuadSquad(TM) family of Gigabit Ethernet quad transceivers optimized for high-port density Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers. The Broadcom(R) BCM5424 quad transceiver features the Reduced Gigabit Media Independent Interface (RGMII), which reduces system design complexity by over 50-percent as compared with the traditional GMII interface. The BCM5424 and other members of the QuadSquad family facilitate deployment of Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth to the desktop by increasing port density and lowering system cost. Utilizing advanced 0.13-micron process technology, Broadcom's Gigabit transceivers also achieve the industry's lowest power consumption of less than one watt per port.   "With the introduction of the BCM5424, we have reduced design complexity, lowered system cost and accelerated time-to-market for our customers," said Marty Colombatto, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Networking Business Unit. "Our transceiver includes a unique built-in timing delay mode to eliminate the timing delay trace called for in the RGMII specification. By accommodating this timing delay on-chip, the BCM5424 can save up to 96 square inches of layout space for a 48-port blade, simplifying board design and reducing the number of layers required."   RGMII is a reduced pin count interface that simplifies board design by lowering the number of interface pins from 25 pins used in the GMII interface to 12. It also lowers system cost compared to the older GMII or Ten Bit Interface (TBI) interfaces by reducing the number of layers required to route high-density networking solutions. Using RGMII, fewer pins are also required for the MAC/switch ASICs, lowering their cost.   To illustrate, RGMII saves 1,248 pins in a 48-port switch blade. To achieve that, the RGMII specification calls for a timing delay on the receive and transmit signals for each port. Each timing delay must be implemented in a board-level trace. These trace lengths are typically arranged in a spiral on the board that takes approximately one square inch of board space per trace. Broadcom's alternative timing solution provides a DLL-based delay for the receive and transmit clocks, thus eliminating the need for the timing delay traces. Given the space requirement for each of the transmit and receive signal timing delays on 48 ports, eliminating the timing delay traces can save 96 square inches of layout space.   In addition to the RGMII interface, the BCM5424 also supports the RTBI interface, which is a reduced pin count version of the TBI interface.   The BCM5424 incorporates Broadcom's fourth-generation Gigabit Ethernet transceiver technology implemented in the advanced 0.13-micron process already proven in production in Broadcom's quad-port BCM5404 and used in BCM5434 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers and the company's single port BCM5421 copper and BCM5421S copper-plus-fiber transceivers. Broadcom's Ethernet transceivers are the most widely deployed and field-proven in the industry, with over 3 million Gigabit Ethernet ports and over 300 million Fast Ethernet ports shipped to date. The BCM5424 is manufactured using the advanced 0.13-micron process technology developed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), one of Broadcom's foundry partners. Collaboration between Broadcom and TSMC, drawing on Broadcom's advanced communications IC expertise and TSMC's process technology knowledge, led to a broad family of mixed signal devices that achieve superior performance, lower cost and slash power requirements by 50-percent.   The BCM5424 incorporates all three Ethernet speeds -- 10, 100, and 1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) -- with standards-based auto-negotiation, to ensure compatibility with all existing Ethernet network equipment operating over legacy Category 5 copper cable plants. Unique Ethernet@Wirespeed(TM) technology enables equipment manufactured using the BCM5424 to auto-negotiate to the maximum speed possible over an impaired cable plant, regardless of the maximum speed advertised by the end-equipment.   The BCM5424 incorporates the industry's most powerful transceiver DSP engine, delivering over one Teraop (one trillion operations per second) performance, combined with high-speed, precision mixed-signal circuits. This processing power ensures robust operation at Gigabit speeds over the broadest range of existing cable plants. In addition, the BCM5424 is designed to exceed the IEEE specifications for noise cancellation and transmission jitter, providing consistent and reliable operation even over marginal cable plants.   The BCM5424's cable diagnostic capability allows users, IT managers and networking equipment manufacturers to remotely analyze the quality and attributes of the cable, thereby avoiding unnecessary equipment returns and service calls. Built-in diagnostics help pinpoint the cause of network malfunctions without deploying field support personnel or bringing down the network.   Pricing and Availability   The BCM5424 quad Gigabit Ethernet transceiver is currently sampling to Broadcom's early access partners and is priced at $90 in quantities of 1000 units.   About Broadcom   Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete system-on-a- chip solutions and related applications for digital cable set-top boxes and cable modems, high-speed local, metropolitan and wide area and optical networks, home networking, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), carrier access, residential broadband gateways, direct broadcast satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast, digital subscriber lines (xDSL), wireless communications, System I/O(TM) server solutions and network processing. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.   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These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, our actual results could differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.   Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with the BCM5424 products include, but are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and specific conditions in the markets we address, including the recent significant economic slowdown in the technology sector and semiconductor industry; the timing and successful completion of technology and product development through volume production; the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in the markets for Gigabit Ethernet networking products; delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; the timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and the ability of our customers to manage their inventory; the loss of a key customer; the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; the effectiveness of our expense and product cost control and reduction efforts; changes in our product or customer mix; the qualification, availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; intellectual property disputes problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete, introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and technologies in a timely manner; the effects of new and emerging technologies; the risks of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and assembly facilities; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; the risks and uncertainties associated with our international operations, particularly in light of recent events; our ability to retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the numbers, with the capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; the effects of natural disasters, international conflicts and other events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.   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