Wintegra, a start-up based in Austin, Texas, closed $13 million in third round funding for its access packet processors. The company’s WinPath access packet processor family offers aspects of ASICs, network processors, communications processors and communications peripherals. Wintegra claims over 60 design wins and said volume production of its chips has been ramping since Q3. The new funding round was supported by existing investors Texas Instruments, Concord Ventures, Magnum Communications, China Development Industrial Bank, and included new funding from a privately held European investment group. Wintegra has raised $39 million to date.
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- Wntegra’s access packet processor is designed as a single-chip solution for all the required data path and control path packet processing functions in wireless base stations, media gateways, access multiplexers, service switches and enterprise routers. The Wintegra device features a combination of ATM and IP feature sets, high-speed SAR functionality, large ATM and IP queues, and an “any service any port�? capability. More specifically, the design provides more than 18 data path protocols resident in RAM on a single chip, including IPv4 Full Routing, AAL0, AAL1, AAL2, AAL5, ATM Circuit Emulation, IMA, ATM Cell Switching, AAL2 CPS switching, HDLC, PPP, MLPPP, Ethernet MAC, Ethernet L2 switching, Ethernet VLAN Tagging, Ethernet-to-ATM Bridging, MPLS, RFC1483/2684, and IP over ATM, PPP and Ethernet. Additional IP functionality includes classification of L2 to L7 headers or payload and mapping into policies or QoS. When used in conjunction with TI’s programmable DSP-based TNETV communications processors and Telogy Software, the solution could provide aggregation, packetization and QoS functions scaling from 100 to over 8000 VoP channels.
- Wintegra is headed by Kobi Ben-Zvi, who previously served as Co-General Manager of the Networking and Communications Systems Division at Motorola Semiconductor in Austin, Texas.