News

2nd November 2007

New multi-gigabit technology company, Xintronix, leads the way to
lowest cost, next generation serial links delivering performance at the
highest level of the newest PC standards

Xintronix was founded in April this year in response to the new technology
barriers created by wide ranging industry moves to next-generation data rates
for serial links within, and external to, PCs. These include USB 3.0 at
4.8 Gbps; PCI Express 3.0 at 8 Gbps; FireWire 3200 at 4 Gbps and both SAS
and SATA moves to 6 Gbps.

Xintronix’s patent pending technology makes these data rates practical using
lowest cost cables, lowest cost circuit boards, lowest cost connectors and low
cost, low power silicon.

This is achieved using the combination of the company’s novel signal
processing IP and detailed CMOS circuit implementation IP, which together
offer a new level of performance for multi-gigabit per second serial links.

The combination is key. At the data rates involved, CMOS implementation
non-idealities can easily dominate the performance of multi-gigabit per second
signal processing circuits, which then falls very short of that anticipated by
naïve analysis.

Xintronix was founded by Nick Weiner who has been in the industry for more
than two decades. Weiner was co-founder of Phyworks, known for their
leading optical interface ICs, including their equalizing receiver developed for
10 Gigabit per second Ethernet standard, 10GBASE-LRM.

The company is very pleased to have been accepted onto a new programme
for high growth-potential semiconductor start-ups in the South West of
England, called FASTtrack. This initiative is run by Silicon South West in
conjunction with SETsquared, the University of Bristol’s business acceleration
centre, and is supported by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and the South
West Regional Development Agency.

For more information please e-mail: info@xintronix.co.uk, or call Nick Weiner
on +44 (0)7887 932456.

Xintronix Limited, University Gate East, Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5UB, UK