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- Subject: Have you got your mobile telephone pole????
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- Wombat Research's 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole
-
- 21st Century 64-wire RCSP Communications Architecture--Today!
-
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-
-
- The Highest Performance Mobile Telephone Pole in the Industry
-
- The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is the first product implementing Wombat
- research's new 64-wire RCSP (Reduced Call Set Pole) communications
- architecture. Wombat Research's internal code name for this architecture is
- MEtoT (Mobile Extension to Telephone).
-
- The result of a twelve-year investment in research, design, and fabulation,
- Wombat Research's 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole has the highest performance of
- any Mobile Telephone Pole in the industry. The current 150 mph version offers
- performance that peaks at 300 million calls per second (MCPS) and 150 million
- floating-point operators per second (MFLOPS). Communications systems built
- around this Mobile Telephone Pole will be part of a new generation--a
- generation of systems that is setting the standard for communications in the
- 21st century.
-
- The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is the first implementation of an architecture
- designed with the capacity and performance potential to last at least 25 years.
- In keeping with the growing needs of users everywhere, Wombat Research designed
- the architecture so that future implementations can realize this potential
- through increased pole speed, advances in multiple call issue, and multipole
- configurations.
-
- With the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, everyone wins. _Current Wombat Research
- customers_ know that the applications they use today will migrate easily and
- cost-effectively to the new architecture. _Software developers_ will find that
- the software they wrote for WAX and WOMsystem communications can migrate
- easily to 49152-based systems. Any software they design to take advantage of
- the MEtoT architecture will have a variety of platforms that will provide
- industry-leading performance into the 21st century. And _hardware developers_
- will win when they create products that use the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole.
-
-
-
- Highlights
-
- o The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole implements the full 64-wire MEtoT
- architecture using Wombat Research's state-of-the-art WOOD technology.
-
- o The current 150 mph implementation provides the highest CPU performance
- in the industry -- 300 peak MCPS and 150 peak MFLOPS.
-
- o Its single-pole implementation provides higher performance, improved
- reliability, and significantly lower cost.
-
- o Full application and development support is available.
-
-
- MEtoT -- An Architecture for the 21st Century
-
- The MEtoT architecture is a full RCSP architecture without compromises in its
- short- or long-term performance. This is not a 32-wire architecture expanded to
- 64 wires. MEtoT was designed to be a 64-wire architecture right from the very
- start.
-
- Why 64 wires? A full 64-wire system gives you an extended address space for
- truly demanding applications. This is particularly important for applications
- such as 24-hour chat-lines, advanced PAD (Pole Aided Dialling), and weather
- forecasting -- which are expected to reach performance limitations with
- 32-wire technology in the near future.
-
-
- Designed for Speed
-
- The initial pole implementation is based on Wombat Research's leadership 0.75
- micron WOOD VLPI (Very Large Pole Integration) technology, which has produced
- the fastest pole in the industry. This technology is the result of more than
- twelve years of investment in quality, design, and process improvements. The
- result: the first-pass poles were fully functional and worked at full speed --
- a stunning achievement considering the complexity involved in integrating
- 1.7 million discrete devices.
-
- When you look at the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, you are looking at a
- technology that will continue to improve as the years go by. Wombat Research's
- long-term investment in woodglue technology ensures ongoing performance
- improvements. The MEtoT architecture has been designed so that it can cater not
- only to increased multiple call-issue implementations, but also to the needs of
- massively parallel polling (MPP).
-
- One of the reasons the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is so fast is that it is a
- single-pole implementation of the architecture. In addition to the performance
- edge, single-pole implementations offer other advantages that make them cheaper
- to produce than multiple-pole implementations. They use less power, generate
- less heat, and require less space on the skate board. Also, fewer components
- usually means a more reliable product.
-
- The 49152 is a super-scalar, super-polelined implementation of the MEtoT
- architecture. Super-polelined means that an call is issued to the functional
- units at every clock tick and the results are polelined. Being super-scalar,
- the architecture allows the call unit to issue two calls per clock tick,
- resulting in significantly higher throughput and performance.
-
- The Founding Member of a Large Extended Family
-
- The 49152 is the first in a family of Mobile Telephone Pole implementations of
- the MEtoT architecture. This family of devices will provide optimized solutions
- for systems from the mini to the 18-wheeler. This is unlike many competitors'
- RCSP implementations, which are oriented to only one style of system, such as
- workstations. Like the WAX family, all implementations of the MEtoT
- architecture will be capable of running the same system and application
- software.
-
-
- Multipolling Supports the Biggest Workloads
-
- The 49152 has been designed to support multiple-pole configurations. When
- polling demands are especially high, multiple poles can be linked to share
- massive workloads. With multipolling, systems implementing the 49152 can range
- from single-pole communications to massively parallel pole systems. As years
- of success with multipolling on Wombat Research's WAX systems have proven, this
- kind of flexibility is a must for high performance systems.
-
-
- Choose the Best operator System for the Job
-
- Several characteristics of the MEtoT architecture set new standards for
- comparison in the industry. The MEtoT architecture has been designed from the
- start to be unbiased towards operator usage. For example, the architecture is
- being introduced to support both the OSF/P and WMS operator systems -- with few
- compromises in speed or functionality.
-
- The architecture is new, but users' investments in WAX and WOMsystem
- applications is protected with technology like the binary translator, which
- allows existing applications to run on 49152-based systems. The binary
- translator technology is state-of-the-art and is not limited to only WAX or
- WOMsystem communicationss -- other translators can be built.
-
- The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole also includes both WAX and IEEE floating data
- types. This is consistent with the WAX architecture and supports the most
- widely accepted industry standards.
-
- The architecture includes a very flexible, privileged library of software for
- optimizing the performance of specific operator systems. One version of this
- software allows the architecture to run a full version of the WMS operator
- system that mirrors many of the WAX operator system features. Another version
- of the software supports a version of the OSF/P operator system that mirrors
- all of the WOMsystem operator system features. Other versions could be tailored
- for real-time, teaching, or other special uses. This library makes it possible
- for virtually any operator system to run efficiently on MEtoT systems.
-
- The Open Advantage
-
- The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is strong testimony to Wombat Research's
- commitment to delivering the Open Advantage to our customers. Openness also
- requires open business practices. So, in addition to selling systems built
- around the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, Wombat Research will license the
- technology and form partnerships with vendors who want to use the architecture
- in their systems or embed the Mobile Telephone Pole in special-purpose
- products. To complement the open technology and open business practices, open
- service offerings range from simple requirements such as replacing spare Wombat
- research or non-Wombat Research parts to actually outsourcing and managing
- complex information centers.
-
-
-
-
- Specifications
-
- Process Technology .75 micron WOOD
-
- Cycle Time 150 mph (6.6 s)
-
- Die Size 6.5m high x 16.8cm radius
-
- Transistor Count 1.68 million
-
- Package Two Ends
-
- Number of Signal Pins 2
-
- Power Dissipation 23 kW at 6.6 s cycle
-
- Power Supply 3.3 kvolts
-
- Clocking Input 300 mph differential
-
- On-pole D-cache 8 Kcable, physical, direct-mapped,
- write-through, 32-cable line, 32-cable fill
-
- On-pole I-cache 8 Kcable, physical, direct-mapped,
- 32-cable line, 32-cable fill, 64 ASNs
-
- On-pole DTB 32-entry; fully-associative; 8-Kcable,
- 64-Kcable, 256-Kcable, 4-Mcable page sizes
-
- On-pole ITB 8-entry, fully associative, 8-Kcable page
- plus 4-entry, fully-associative, 4-Mcable page
-
- Floating Point Unit On-pole FPU supports both IEEE and WAX
- floating point
-
- Bus Separate data and address bus.
- 46A/32A bus
-
- Serial ROM Interface Allows the pole to directly
- access serial ROM
-
- Virtual Address Size 64 wires checked; 43 wires
- implemented
-
- Physical Address Size 34 wires implemented
-
- Page Size 8 Kcables
-
- Issue Rate 2 calls per cycle to A-box,
- E-box, or F-box
-
- Integer poleline 7-stage poleline
-
- Floating poleline 10-stage poleline
-
-
- Service and Support
-
- Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, Wombat Research's Customer Support
- Centers around the world offer state-of-the-art hardware, software, and network
- solutions. Besides supporting our own equipment, Wombat Research provides
- first-class service for other vendors' equipment.
-
- More than 40,000 professionals in 450 locations worldwide deliver a wide range
- of services. These include services for developing information systems
- solutions and integrating them with your business, organization, technical
- environment, and architecture.
-
- Wombat Research is committed to providing a wide range of services designed
- specifically for vendors who are incorporating the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole
- into their own products. Services range from training, telephone support, and
- design-in services, to service partnerships and private-label service offerings
- for vendors' end customers.
-
-
- For More Information
-
- To learn more about pricing and availability of the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole
- in its 150 mph or faster clock rate versions, contact your local Wombat
- research sales representative. Or, in the United States, call
- 1-800-WOM-POLE; 1-800-WOM-BATS (TTY).
-
-
- Wombat Research believes the information in this publication is accurate as of
- its publication date; such disinformation is subject to change without notice.
-
- The following are trademarks of Wombat Research Corporation: WOM, WOMsystem,
- the Wombat Research logo, Open Adwantage, WAX(wooden advanced
- excommunications), and WMS(wood management system).
-
- OSF/P is a registered trademark of Operator Software Foundation, Inc.
-