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 Lines: 254  - Wombat Research's 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole   = 21st Century 64-wire RCSP Communications Architecture--Today!         = The Highest Performance Mobile Telephone Pole in the Industry   H The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is the first product implementing WombatB research's new 64-wire RCSP (Reduced Call Set Pole) communicationsK architecture. Wombat Research's internal code name for this architecture is & MEtoT (Mobile Extension to Telephone).  K The result of a twelve-year investment in research, design, and fabulation, M Wombat Research's 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole has the highest performance  of M any Mobile Telephone Pole in the industry. The current 150 mph version offers M performance that peaks at 300 million calls per second (MCPS) and 150 million J floating-point operators per second (MFLOPS). Communications systems builtE around this Mobile Telephone Pole will be part of a new generation--a L generation of systems that is setting the standard for communications in the
 21st century.   N The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is the first implementation of an architectureO designed with the capacity and performance potential to last at least 25 years. O In keeping with the growing needs of users everywhere, Wombat Research designed J the architecture so that future implementations can realize this potentialL through increased pole speed, advances in multiple call issue, and multipole configurations.   M With the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, everyone wins. _Current Wombat Research L customers_ know that the applications they use today will migrate easily andO cost-effectively to the new architecture.  _Software developers_ will find that H the software they wrote for WAX and WOMsystem communications can migrateL easily to 49152-based systems. Any software they design to take advantage ofI the MEtoT architecture will have a variety of platforms that will provide N industry-leading performance into the 21st century. And  _hardware developers_L will win when they create products that use the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole.      
 Highlights  E o   The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole implements the full 64-wire MEtoT J     architecture using Wombat Research's state-of-the-art WOOD technology.  K o   The current 150 mph implementation provides the highest CPU performance 9     in the industry -- 300 peak MCPS and 150 peak MFLOPS.   H 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   M The MEtoT architecture is a full RCSP architecture without compromises in its O short- or long-term performance. This is not a 32-wire architecture expanded to M 64 wires. MEtoT was designed to be a 64-wire architecture right from the very  start.  K Why 64 wires? A full 64-wire system gives you an extended address space for N truly demanding applications.  This is particularly important for applicationsK such as 24-hour chat-lines, advanced PAD (Pole Aided Dialling), and weather G forecasting -- which are expected to reach performance limitations with & 32-wire technology in the near future.     Designed for Speed  M The initial pole implementation is based on Wombat Research's leadership 0.75 M micron WOOD VLPI (Very Large Pole Integration) technology, which has produced L the fastest pole in the industry. This technology is the result of more thanL twelve years of investment in quality, design, and process improvements. TheN result: the first-pass poles were fully functional and worked at full speed --I a stunning achievement considering the complexity involved in integrating  1.7 million discrete devices.   F When you look at the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, you are looking at aN technology that will continue to improve as the years go by. Wombat Research'sG long-term investment in woodglue technology ensures ongoing performance O improvements. The MEtoT architecture has been designed so that it can cater not O only to increased multiple call-issue implementations, but also to the needs of ! massively parallel polling (MPP).   M One of the reasons the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is so fast is that it is a N single-pole implementation of the architecture. In addition to the performanceO edge, single-pole implementations offer other advantages that make them cheaper L to produce than multiple-pole implementations. They use less power, generateL less heat, and require less space on the skate board. Also, fewer components& usually means a more reliable product.  H The 49152 is a super-scalar, super-polelined implementation of the MEtoTL architecture. Super-polelined means that an call is issued to the functionalL units at every clock tick and the results are polelined. Being super-scalar,H 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  N The 49152 is the first in a family of Mobile Telephone Pole implementations ofO the MEtoT architecture. This family of devices will provide optimized solutions M for systems from the mini to the 18-wheeler. This is unlike many competitors' M RCSP implementations, which are oriented to only one style of system, such as D workstations.  Like the WAX family, all implementations of the MEtoTG architecture will be capable of running the same system and application 	 software.     + Multipolling Supports the Biggest Workloads   I The 49152 has been designed to support multiple-pole configurations. When J polling demands are especially high, multiple poles can be linked to shareO massive workloads.  With multipolling, systems implementing the 49152 can range M from single-pole communications to  massively parallel pole systems. As years O 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   G Several characteristics of the MEtoT architecture set new standards for M comparison in the industry. The MEtoT architecture has been designed from the M start to be unbiased towards operator usage. For example, the architecture is O being introduced to support both the OSF/P and WMS operator systems -- with few & compromises in speed or functionality.  D The architecture is new, but users' investments in WAX and WOMsystemK applications is protected with technology like the binary translator, which G allows existing applications to run on 49152-based systems.  The binary K translator technology is state-of-the-art and is not limited to only WAX or < WOMsystem communicationss -- other translators can be built.  M The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole also includes both WAX and IEEE floating data I types. This is consistent with the WAX architecture and supports the most # widely accepted industry standards.   M The architecture includes a very flexible, privileged library of software for L optimizing the performance of specific operator systems. One version of thisJ software allows the architecture to run a full version of the WMS operatorM system that mirrors many of the WAX operator system features. Another version L of the software supports a version of the OSF/P operator system that mirrorsO all of the WOMsystem operator system features. Other versions could be tailored N for real-time, teaching, or other special uses. This library makes it possibleF for virtually any operator system to run efficiently on MEtoT systems.   The Open Advantage  H The 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole is strong testimony to Wombat Research'sK commitment to delivering the Open Advantage to our customers. Openness also!J requires open business practices. So, in addition to selling systems builtH around the 49152 Mobile Telephone Pole, Wombat Research will license theN technology and form partnerships with vendors who want to use the architectureF in their systems or embed the Mobile Telephone Pole in special-purposeM products. To complement the open technology and open business practices, openiO service offerings range from simple requirements such as replacing spare WombatCJ 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)  8 Die Size                       6.5m high x 16.8cm radius  + Transistor Count               1.68 millionh  ' Package                        Two Endsl    Number of Signal Pins          2  3 Power Dissipation              23 kW at 6.6 s cycleo  ) Power Supply                   3.3 kvoltsa  3 Clocking Input                 300 mph differentiall  A On-pole D-cache                8 Kcable, physical, direct-mapped,hJ                                write-through, 32-cable line, 32-cable fill  A On-pole I-cache                8 Kcable, physical, direct-mapped,uD                                32-cable line, 32-cable fill, 64 ASNs  E On-pole DTB                    32-entry; fully-associative; 8-Kcable,eI                                64-Kcable, 256-Kcable, 4-Mcable page sizest  H On-pole ITB                    8-entry, fully associative, 8-Kcable pageM                                plus 4-entry, fully-associative, 4-Mcable pageh  E Floating Point Unit            On-pole FPU supports both IEEE and WAXa-                                floating pointa  = Bus                            Separate data and address bus.o*                                46A/32A bus  : Serial ROM Interface           Allows the pole to directly0                                access serial ROM  9 Virtual Address Size           64 wires checked; 43 wires *                                implemented  3 Physical Address Size          34 wires implementeds  ( Page Size                      8 Kcables  : Issue Rate                     2 calls per cycle to A-box,.                                E-box, or F-box  / Integer poleline               7-stage poleline   0 Floating poleline              10-stage poleline     Service and Supportt  L Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, Wombat Research's Customer SupportO Centers around the world offer state-of-the-art hardware, software, and networkaI solutions. Besides supporting our own equipment, Wombat Research providesm1 first-class service for other vendors' equipment.   N More than 40,000 professionals in 450 locations worldwide deliver a wide rangeF of services. These include services for developing information systemsJ solutions and integrating them with your business, organization, technical environment, and architecture.  K Wombat Research is committed to providing a wide range of services designedhN specifically for vendors who are incorporating the 49152 Mobile Telephone PoleM into their own products. Services range from training, telephone support, and-O design-in services, to service partnerships and private-label service offeringss for vendors' end customers.r     For More Information  O To learn more about pricing and availability of the 49152 Mobile Telephone PoleuG in its 150 mph or faster clock rate versions, contact your local Wombatn= research sales representative. Or, in the United States, call % 1-800-WOM-POLE; 1-800-WOM-BATS (TTY).     N Wombat Research believes the information in this publication is accurate as ofN its publication date; such disinformation is subject to change without notice.  L The following are trademarks of Wombat Research Corporation: WOM, WOMsystem,= the Wombat Research logo, Open Adwantage, WAX(wooden advancedg3 excommunications), and WMS(wood management system).a  E OSF/P is a registered trademark of Operator Software Foundation, Inc.h