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RMI Powers Network Attached Storage Market with Comprehensive Reference Design Kit
LAS VEGAS & CUPERTINO, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
RMI Corporation, a leading supplier of multi-core, multi-threaded processors for communications and media rich applications, today announced the availability of a comprehensive reference design kit for the SMB/SOHO Network Attached Storage (NAS) Market. The RMI® NAS Media Server reference design is targeted at media-centric NAS applications, bringing a production ready platform for entry-level to mid-range NAS applications. Powered by the XLS® Processor, the NAS RDK is a comprehensive solution that enables comprehensive media capabilities for next generation SOHO NAS solutions in a small and cost-effective form factor.
"We are excited to be delivering a comprehensive reference design kit for the NAS Market. This XLS-basedTM networked storage application reaffirms the strength and versatility of our industry-leading multi-core multi-threaded processors," said Behrooz Abdi, president and chief executive officer, RMI. "By bringing this optimized NAS application solution to our customers, we are able to drive high performance and cost-effective products for the low-to mid-range SMB market segments."
The consumer NAS market continues to evolve from a simple file-centric storage medium to a multimedia-rich home entertainment platform capable of streaming audio and video files throughout the home network. This paradigm shift requires a higher processing performance to accommodate the integration of various multimedia and networking applications. RMI's NAS Media Server RDK is designed specifically to address these needs for the SOHO/SMB market segments. The solution is based on RMI's XLS Processor, a Dual-core Multi-threaded SoC which supports outstanding networking performance, a rich feature set, and flexible interface options, allowing customers to quickly release a powerful solution for multimedia NAS applications.
NAS Media Server RDK Highlights
Multi-core multi-threaded XLS108 Processor offering best-in-class performance and integration
SATA disk interfaces, allowing up to two disks supporting a variety of RAID configurations such as RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10
Additional interfaces for external disk and other peripheral devices
Multiple GbE networking interfaces
On-board DDR2 Memory up to 667MHz
A mini-PCIe slot provides simple path for WiFi or wireless modem support
Small and cost-effective form factor
Fully featured application specific SDK
The RMI NAS Media Server Reference Design Kit comes with a fully featured SDK equipped with RMI boot loader, Linux 2.6.xx RAID enabled, web-based configuration GUI (evaluation only), and complete development tool kit (compiler, debugger, etc.). RMI supports the industry-standard GNU compiler tool chain with an XLS-optimized GCC compiler and a MIPS® cross-compile tool chain for x86 Linux. RMI also provides an optional Linux-based XLS compiler, linker and debugger.
The NAS Media Server RDK is based on RMI's XLS Processor® solution. The XLS Processor features state-of-the-art multi-core multi-threaded technology that includes a Fast Messaging Network™ (FMN) for efficient on-chip communication. The XLS's Autonomous Security Acceleration Engine® and Autonomous Network Acceleration Engine® technology offloads work from the CPU to perform critical application tasks. XLS Processors are pin-compatible, with single-core to quad-core designs that provide four virtual CPU's (vCPU™) per core. An optimal cache subsystem incorporates separate L1 caches per-core, and a large shared L2 cache for increased application performance. In summary, the XLS Processor offers a cost-effective single-chip solution, with outstanding network performance and a rich feature set, for the next generation of scalable multi-service applications.
About RMI Corporation
RMI Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company providing High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC™) Processor solutions for the Infrastructure, Enterprise, and Consumer Media markets. Applications include Wireless, Networking Security, Thin Clients, and Connected Multi-Media. RMI offers a broad platform of advanced MIPS-compatible processor solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.3GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, United Kingdom, France, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company's website at http://www.RMICorp.com.
© Copyright 2009 RMI Corporation. All rights reserved. RMI, the RMI logo, XLS, XLS Processor, XLS-based, Fast Messaging Network, Autonomous Security Acceleration Engine, Autonomous Network Acceleration Engine, vCPU, SuperSoC and the other trademarks named on the RMI website are trademarks of RMI Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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