Company Profile

PMC-Sierra, Inc. is an internet infrastructure semiconductor solutions provider. The company designs, develops, markets and supports semiconductor solutions by integrating its mixed-signal, software and systems expertise through a network of offices in North America, Europe and Asia. 

Its portfolio of semiconductor devices are used in various applications of communications networkinfrastructure equipment and enable the transporting and storing of large quantities of digital data, in a secure manner. It provides semiconductor solutions for its customers by leveraging its intellectual property, design expertise and systems knowledge across a broad range of applications and industry protocols. 

The company also offer server adaptor products with high-performance Solid State Drive caching capability that are used to configure, manage and monitor storage volumes.
PMC-Sierra was founded by James V. Diller, Sr. and Colin C. Harris in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Product Families

Server-Storage Network

For storage networks and systems, PMC-Sierra offers solutions featuring signal integrity, flexibility and diagnostics for increased system performance and management. The company provides an interconnect and controller product family for both 3G and 6G SAS/SATA storage systems and Server RAID. PMC-Sierra also provides 4G and 8G Fibre Channel controller and system interconnect products for SAN/NAS storage and switch fabric applications.

• Enclosure Management Controllers
• Fibre Channel Loop Switches and Physical Layer Products
• maxSAS SAS and SATA Multiplexers
• maxSAS SAS Expanders and Switches
• RAID-on-Chip Controllers
• Tachyon Fibre Channel and SAS/SATA Controllers

Fiber-to-the-Home Solutions

PMC-Sierra is the leader in gigabit EPON solutions for Fiber to the Home broadband access network equipment. PMC-Sierra is the only supplier to support EPON (IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile), 10G EPON (IEEE 802.3av) and GPON (ITU-T G.984) standards.[citation needed] PMC-Sierra system-on-chip solutions provide end-to-end gigabit per second bandwidth solutions linking central office equipment and customer premise equipment. OLT (optical line terminal) devices connect the central office to the PON network and ONU or ONT devices connect customer premises to the PON network.

• 10G EPON Products
• EPON Products
• GPON Products
• Legacy Products - Not recommended for new designs

WinPath Family

Wintegra's WinPath™ family of network processors - combined with their field-proven networking software - is used in 3G/4G base stations, fiber and microwave cell site routers, as well as radio network controllers deployed in mobile networks worldwide. These single-chip solutions enable carriers to increase throughput on their mobile backhaul networks while successfully scaling and migrating to packet-based architectures.

• WP1 WinPath1 First Generation Access Network Processor
• WP2 WinPath2 Second Generation Access Network Processor
• WP2L WinPath2 Lite Second Generation Access Network Processor
• WP3 WinPath3 Network Processor with 650Mhz MIPS 34Kc 
• 12x450Mhz WinGines WP3SL WinPath3 SuperLite Third Generation
• Access Network Processor

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