Overview
Macnica Americas is a subsidiary of the $2.4B Macnica group headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. We offer franchised distribution in North America with a design service center located in San Diego, California. Our intellectual property (IP) portfolio includes solutions for high-speed networking, broadcast video, digital signal processing (DSP), and embedded applications.
Available Products
| Table 1. Available AMPPSM Cores | ||
| Product | Description | Supported Altera® Devices |
|---|---|---|
| MAIP-10GMACLITE | 10G MAC Lite, an easy-to-use 10GbE media access control (MAC) for backplane applications. Features L1 framing, a XAUI PCS interface, and an Avalon® Streaming fabric interface. | Stratix® II GX devices and later |
| MAIP-FASTXAUI | XAUI PCS, a soft physical coding sublayer (PCS) that runs at rates more than twice as fast as the Altera XAUI hard IP. Suitable for HiGig 2 and HiGig 2+. | Stratix II GX devices and later |
| MAIP-10GRTPV | 10G RTP Video over IP, a flexible multichannel SMPTE 2022-5/6 compliant Video Transport solution. Includes UDP/IP + RTP, encapsulation/decapsulation, forward error correction (FEC), and programmable framing, upgradable to 256 channels. Integrates with Altera Video IP Suite. | Stratix II GX devices and later |
| MAIP-DRVEXP | DrivExpress™ PCIe® simulation and debug environment, a verification tool for hardware and driver development. Features C++ root cmplex model, Tcl script interface, verbose error reporting, and significantly faster simulation speed than HDL testbenches. | Cyclone® III devices and later |
| MAIP-H264E | H.264 Encoder, an ITU-T Annex B compliant encoder supporting up to 106 MPixels per second and multiple 4:2:0 formats. Supports Profile Level up to 5.1 with runtime. | Cyclone III devices and later |
| MAIP-VBYONE | V-by-One® video graphics interface, a high-speed serial transmitter/receiver interface. Provides up to 4K x 2K resolution at 240 Hz, with 1–32 transceiver lanes. | Cyclone IV devices and later |
| MAIP-SMMI | Streaming multiport memory interface, provides up to 8 streaming fabric interfaces with fair round-robin arbitration. Interfaces directly with Altera's RAM. | Cyclone III devices and later |
| MAIP-MVPL | Streaming multiport memory interface, provides up to 8 streaming fabric interfaces with fair round-robin arbitration. Interfaces directly with Altera's RAM. | Cyclone III devices and later |
Additional Services and Features
Macnica Americas, Inc. provides the following additional services and features.
- System architecture
- Design specification
- IP selection
- RTL design
- Verification
- PCB design
- Technology conversions
- Project management
- C, C++, MATLAB modeling
- PCB signal integrity
- Additional IP cores
Contact Information
For additional information, contact Macnica Americas at:
380 Stevens Ave., Suite 206
Solana Beach, CA 92075
Tel: +1 800 884 3042
Fax: +1 760 452 7548
Email: info@macnica-na.com
URL: www.macnica-na.com

