He said the company remains on course for profitability by the end of 2002.
Protocol stacks take a fairly long time to develop and test.
Some of the things like forward error correction, we would consider doing ourselves. ARC had already doubled head count to 40 at its Precise Software Technologies unit, acquired last year. ARC bought VAutomation Inc. at roughly the same time as Precise to expand its hardware cores portfolio. This was a driving factor in the development of the Tangent-A4 configurable RISC processor core, which started shipping in the last quarter of 2000, he said. The interface is already available in AMCC framers such as the Ganges line of chips and is being made available last week as a soft core for Xilinx's Virtex II line of FPGAs.