MorethanIP and OmniPHY Announce Sweeping Partnership on Integrated Ethernet Solutions

San Jose CA and Munich Germany -- January 27, 2016 – OmniPHY, the leading supplier of Ethernet PHY intellectual property (IP) for the consumer, automotive, and industrial markets, and MorethanIP, the leader in Ethernet silicon solutions, have announced a partnership that provides customers with ‘best-in-class’ MAC, PCS, and PHY solutions for a wide range of Ethernet protocol implementations.

The broad partnership addresses data-rates from 10Mb/s to 100Gb/s and includes:

• 10/100 and 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet Silicon Solutions

  The CMOS integration trend has caught up to the Ethernet PHY, and OmniPhy has become the standard for the PHY as an IP, with millions of ports shipped into televisions, set-top-boxes, routers and gateways. The MorethanIP MAC layers are fully interoperable with the integrated PHY IP. The resulting combination saves money, area, and power, at the system level.

• Industrial and Automotive Ethernet Silicon Solutions

  MorethanIP’s offers programmable switch IP, which includes support for the emerging IEEE 802.1 TSN (Time Sensitive Networking) Ethernet standards. The IP can be combined with OmniPHY’s silicon proven Automotive 100Base-T1, or with the multiprotocol Extreme Industrial Ethernet PHY line which supports every major industrial protocol in one design. Solutions are scalable to multiple nodes and multiple configurations.

• Ultra-high-speed SerDes Ethernet Silicon Solutions

  The combination of OmniPHY’s 25G backplane SerDes with MorethanIP’s MAC and PCS layers is an incredible edge for customers implementing 25-, 40-, 100-, and even 400G Ethernet. The MorethanIP solution is battle-tested and has the lowest latency of any solution on the market. The OmniPHY IP brings best-of-class power per bit and area-per-lane metrics, on the 28nm node.

“The use of Ethernet is increasing at a very rapid rate because it’s a very reliable and robust form of interconnect that has shown it can be flexible enough to accommodate emerging requirements such as enabling time-sensitive-networking, or even 400G communication,” said Francois Balay, President of MorethanIP.

Dr. Claude Gauthier, OmniPHY’s CTO added “Customers are always looking for the best – best power, best area, best latency, and for that reason OmniPHY and MorethanIP have come to work together over the years. With this strategic partnership we proactively address the requirements across several Ethernet markets.”

For more information about how you can leverage the power of this partnership, contact sales@omniphysemi.com or info@morethanip.com.

About OmniPhy

Omniphy is an American Mixed-signal Semiconductor IP company based in San Jose, California, with satellite offices across the world. The company specializes in intellectual property and develops high-performance Ethernet PHY’s and SerDes interfaces for the Automotive, Industrial, Consumer, and Networking markets. The company’s products allow customers to take full advantage of the latest technological advancements. For more information visit http://omniphysemi.com, or contact sales@omniphysemi.com.

About MorethanIP

MorethanIP was founded in 2000 as a GmbH (ltd.) in Munich Germany by three senior Telecommunication Engineers. MorethanIP is a privately owned and profitable design and IP (Intellectual Property) house concentrating on high-speed communications, serial backplane and embedded system technologies. This includes design, specification and implementation of standard products, system architectures and customer-specific solutions. Combining its methodology with proven technical expertise from more than ten years of industry experience in Hardware and Software design, MorethanIP generates rapid design cycles to meet time-to-market, functional and budgetary objectives. For more information visit http://www.morethanip.com, or contact info@morthanip.com.