Wireless Connectivity

Virtual Base Stations Demand Custom Silicon Accelerators

25 August 2015

Given burgeoning data and video traffic and their strain on IT and communications infrastructure, eASIC and ASOCS have agreed to develop a silicon device to accelerate next-generation network virtualization applications using the eASIC Nextreme-3 platform.

ASOCS brings to the table its architecture that enables the functions of a base station to run on virtual machines that leverage commercial-off-the-shelf servers with a hardware accelerator implemented on the eASIC Nextreme-3 platform.

Demand for customized chips that make a particular application or workload run faster for data centers, security, big data analytics and other applications is fueled by the growth of cloud computing. In May, Intel and eASIC announced a joint collaboration to develop products that combine the eASIC platform with future Intel Xeon processors.

To contact the author of this article, email engineering360editors@ihs.com

Related links:

Intel-eASIC Collaborate on Customized Intel-based Solutions for the Cloud.

eASIC, Intel, ASOCS, IBS: A Disruptive Approach to Application & Workload Acceleration.



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