Xelerated, a start-up based in Burlington, Massachusettes, raised $12.5 million in new funding for its high-performance network processors. Xelerated’s X10q chip provides up to 40 Gbps of programmable packet processing with deterministic execution. Investors in the funding round included Atlas Venture, Alta Partners and Startupfactory. The company has raised $26 million to date.
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- In April 2003, Xelerated announced the availability of its X10q-e Network Processor, a high-performance processor aimed at switches for enterprise backbones and metro Ethernet. The company describes its core technology as a “data flow processor�? built in a .13 micron process. The chip architecture is optimized for the efficient movement of data, eliminating the need for complex inter-processor interconnects as well as redundant data and instruction storage. This allows 200 data flow processors and ten I/O processors to fit on a single, low-cost chip providing unparalleled cost/performance. The 200 data flow processors are organized in a synchronous pipeline with each processor executing a single instruction. This makes them appear to the programmer as a single 80 BOPs processor with a fully deterministic execution time. An X10q reference design system running at 4*10 Gbps was demonstrated at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas.
