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Toshiba Announces Latest Ethernet Bridge IC for Automotive and Industrial ApplicationsToshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. ("Toshiba (News - Alert)") today has announced TC9562 series, its latest member in the automotive network bridge IC product line. The TC9562 series provides advanced Ethernet capability for telematics and infotainment systems for the automotive segment. Real-time processing and reliable data transmission is critical to support telematics, infotainment, driver assistance systems and various sensor data to enable a fully connected vehicle. New standards, including Ethernet AVB[1] and TSN[2], are becoming adopted in automotive and industrial applications to meet the increased performance requirements. Toshiba's TC9562 series is designed for reliability and performance delivering Ethernet bridging capability up to 1Gbps bandwidth. The new automotive bridge IC also supports Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) protocol for various industrial and commercial applications. The TC9562 series's advanced capabilities supports Ethernet AVB specification, specifically IEEE (News - Alert) 802.1AS[3] and IEEE 802.1Qav[4], as well as TSN standards IEEE 802.1Qbv[5], IEEE 802.1Qbu[6] and IEEE 802.3br[6]. The New IC also supports a broad range of interfaces including PCI (News - Alert) Express® 2.0 and 1.0, I2S/TDM, RGMII, RMII, MII[7] and an option for SGMII[7] for expanded interfaces to various IVI SoC solutions. "We had the pleasure of working with Toshiba to feature their Ethernet bridge IC solutions in our industry-leading Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820A Platform," said Shyam (News - Alert) Krishnamurthy, senior director of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "We look forward to continuing our combined efforts to design cutting-edge solutions to support highly advanced automotive cockpit and telematics applications." Shardul Kazi, Chief Marketing Officer at Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., commented, "We are pleased to expand the successful automotive Ethenet bridge IC series to the market. We hope to help accelerate the Ethernet adoption in automotive applications." The TC9562 series will be automotive qualified[8] and packaged in P-LFBGA120 in 9mm x 9mm package. Sample shipments will start in February 2019, and volume production will start in October 2019. For further information and the detailed product specifications please visit: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/product/automotive/interface-bridge.html. About Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., is the US based electronic components business of Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation. TAEC offers consumers and businesses a wide variety of innovative hard disk drive (HDD) products plus semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, IoT, motion control, telecoms, networking, consumer and white goods applications. The company's broad portfolio encompasses integrated wireless ICs, power semiconductors, microcontrollers, optical semiconductors, ASICs, ASSPs and discrete devices ranging from diodes to logic ICs. For more company information visit TAEC's web site at http://www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com/. © 2019 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. All rights reserved. Information in this press release, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice.
[1] Ethernet AVB: IEEE802.1 Audio/Video Bridging
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