DSP specialist Bops has announced what it claims is the industry's first SoC in a Box with its carrier-class VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) solution

BOPS' VoIP SoC in a Box, which was developed in conjunction with partners Tality and HelloSoft and supported by TSMC, is the first in a family of licensable SoCs in a Box designed to drastically reduce time-to-market and technical risk for telecom equipment vendors and chip companies. Bops' VoIP SoC in a Box is a full pre-packaged application solution that includes complete sample hardware and software design along with implementation services for a carrier-class Voice over IP (VoIP) gateway.

This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 February 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SoC design is offered by Bops in collaboration with HelloSoft who provide the system software for Carrier-class gateway (CGW) applications supporting all VoIP standards.

Customer specific implementations of this design - including system design, peripheral design and SOC implementation services - are available through Tality.

Bops' VoiceRay CGW uses a set of eight cores to deliver up to 192 channels of G.729a or 512 channels of G.711, both with 32ms of G.165/168 echo cancellation on a single chip.
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VoIP features supported include G.723.1/726/728/729a vocoders; G.165/168 16, 32, 64, 128 ms echo cancellation; VAD, CNG, DTMF; and signal classification, running on SIP or H.323 protocols.

In addition to the carrier class VoIP solution, modular SOC configurations and compatible VoIP parts are supported by Bops and its partners for small-medium business (SMB) applications with up to 96 channels of G.729a on a chip and small-office, home-office (SOHO) applications with up to 24 channels of G.729a on a chip.

"The VoIP SOC in a Box is the first of many complete SoC solutions you will see from Bops in the coming year", said Carl Schlachte, CEO of Bops.

"The inherent scalability and reusability of our DSP intellectual property combined with our SoC design methodology allows us to quickly generate new SoC solutions for VoIP market and others.

Essentially, we are offering telecom equipment vendors and chip companies the ability to create more high-performance products in a shorter time while also having the flexibility to choose who will manufacture their ASICs.

We're giving our customers more control over their destinies Bops' SoC in a Box includes: RTL for the SoC design; an SoC evaluation and design platform; all DSP software; all system software; SoC implementation services; foundry services; and other third-party alliances.

An evaluation kit is available for $35,000.