February 14, 2008 — Springfield, VA — Cornet Technology, Inc., a global manufacturing company of video, voice, and data communication products, today announced that it is entering the PMC product market. The companys initial offerings are the CPMC-722, a graphics display controller card, and the CPMC-DSCC, a high speed serial communications card. With these products Cornet Technology is giving buyers a fresh PMC product resource. For qualified buyers, the company is offering a 30-day evaluation of these products.
PMC remains the most popular mezzanine module standard used in the board-level COTS industry. Because of this continued popularity, Cornet Technology is seizing the opportunity to manufacture off-the-shelf PMC products which provide buyers with long-term availability guarantees as well as products responsive to customers specific design requirements and software support needs. The CPMC-722 and CPMC-DSCC are the first of the companys PMC offerings.
The CPMC-722 offers a variety of graphics display options for CRTs and LCDs. The boards 8 MB of internal SGRAM video memory improves the graphics controller performance by making the read/write process more efficient. It supports up to 1280 x 1024 x 24-bit color resolution which is ideal for viewing on 19” monitors. For those requiring advanced graphical display applications, the CPMC-722 comes with a 128-bit 2D/3D floating point rendering engine for enhanced precision display. Its Motion Compensation block feature enables full frame MPEG-1/DVD playback, and its 200 MHz RAMDAC improves the refresh rate of CRTs. The board comes with a device driver for the latest version of the Linux operating system. The CPMC-722 is available now. Price starts at $600. An extended temperature version is also available.
The CPMC-DSCC provides up to 10 Mbps for synchronous and 2 Mbps for asynchronous communication transfers. The board supports a full range of protocols including HDLC, SDLC, LAPB, LAPD, PPP, ASYNC, and BISYNC. Additionally, the module has a 17 DWord FIFO per receive channel, an 8 DWord FIFO per transmit channel, and a 128 DWord central FIFO for both transmit and receive. The Linux device driver supports both asynchronous and synchronous (SDLC) modes. The CPMC-DSCC is available now at a starting price of $800.
About Cornet Technology, Inc.
Cornet Technology, Inc. (CTI) is a manufacturing and professional services company consisting of three divisions: Cornet Technology Communications designs and manufactures data, voice and video network switching products and provides integration services for federal and commercial markets; Video Convergence provides video products and comprehensive integration services to the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and strategic security markets; and Optim Systems develops and integrates audio, video and Web conferencing solutions for government and commercial organizations. Founded in 1989, CTI is headquartered in Springfield, Virginia near Washington, D.C. For more information, visit CTI at www.cornet.com.