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Pericom and Techwell Partner to Offer Advanced PCI Express-Based Video Surveillance Design Platform
Pericom's Next Generation PCIe Bridge Combines With Techwell's Video Decoder Technology to Offer Cost Effective 8-Channel DVR Solutions for Security and Surveillance Markets
| Source: Pericom Semiconductor
TAIPEI, TAIWAN--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - Pericom Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ : PSEM ), a worldwide preferred supplier of products for timing, signal
conditioning and serial connectivity, today announced a partnership with
Techwell, Inc. (NASDAQ : TWLL ) that has generated a turn-key customer
reference design (CRD) for next generation PCIe (PCI Express) based DVR
solutions for the CCTV security and surveillance markets.
The new CRD platform features eight (8) Techwell TW6805 PCI-based
high-performance video decoder ICs with audio and TS input, and Pericom's
PI7C9X112SL, the industry's lowest power PCIe-to-PCI Bridge IC offering
8-PCI bus-master support. The CRD offers full software driver support for
all Windows 32/64bit and Linux 32/64bit OS, and is a complete low cost,
turn-key solution available to security and surveillance customers for a
variety of applications. The new design includes complete physical layout,
schematics, BOM, and software drivers.
The PI7C9X112SL is the latest PCIe-to-PCI Bridge from Pericom's SlimLine
PCIe Packet Switch and Bridge family featuring very low power and small
footprint packages enabling volume applications such as notebook/PC,
embedded, video surveillance, wireless, networking, peripheral and digital
TV.
"Pericom's new PCIe bridge enables Techwell to provide a very cost
effective, multi-channel decoder solution to our CCTV, security, and
surveillance customers," said Mr. David Nam, Vice President of Sales &
Marketing at Techwell. "Our joint CRD with Pericom allows our customers to
get to market quickly with a fully functional and validated solution."
"Our PCIe bridge, packet switch, and signal conditioning (ReDriver)
products are designed to enable cost effective customer solutions, such as
our joint security and surveillance CRD with Techwell," said Jen Lee,
Pericom's Taiwan office marketing director. "This market is growing
rapidly as the need for surveillance driven applications expands worldwide.
The security and surveillance IC TAM is expected to double to over $2
billion by 2012 (ABI Research - March, 2008). A good portion of this IC
content is addressable with decoder and PCIe functionality."
The Pericom/Techwell 8-channel Customer Reference Design platform is
available now for customer evaluation. Please contact a Techwell or
Pericom sales representative for more information and to arrange a
demonstration. For more information about the Techwell TW6805 video
decoder IC, please visit Techwell's website at http://www.techwellinc.com.
Pricing & Availability
Pericom's PI7C9X112 is available now in production quantities with
suggested OEM retail pricing of 10Ku quantities at $7.45. For more
information on the Pericom PI7C9X112SL PCIe-to-PCI Bridge IC, please visit
Pericom's website at http://www.pericom.com/press/178/
About Techwell, Inc.:
Techwell is a leading semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells
mixed signal integrated circuits for multiple video applications in the
security surveillance, automotive and consumer electronics markets.
Techwell designs both general purpose and application specific products
that enable the conversion of analog video signals to digital form and
perform advanced digital video processing to facilitate the display,
storage and transport of video content. Headquartered in San Jose, CA,
Techwell currently has over 160 employees in the U.S., Korea, Taiwan, China
and Japan. Please visit the Techwell website for more information.
www.techwellinc.com
About Pericom:
Pericom Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ : PSEM ) enables serial
connectivity solutions for the computing, communications and consumer
markets. Pericom's analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits and
its SaRonix-eCera™ frequency control products are essential in the
timing, switching, bridging and conditioning of high-speed signals required
by today's high-speed, high-bandwidth applications. Company headquarters
are in San Jose, California, with design centers and technical sales and
support offices around the world.
www.pericom.com
ReDriver™ is a trademark of Pericom Semiconductor
PCI Express®, PCIe® and PCI-SIG® are registered trademarks of
PCI-SIG: www.pcisig.org