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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 9, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 23
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Breaking News -
Networking:
HyperTransport Consortium Adopts
GDA Technologies Platform
The HyperTransport Technology Consortium, the nonprofit industry
organization
that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, announced that the
Consortium's Infrastructure Task Force has voted to adopt the HT8000
HyperTransport Compatibility Platform co-developed by member companies GDA
Technologies, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. as a recommended HyperTransport
compatibility test fixture. This platform, commercially available from GDA
Technologies, incorporates the Consortium approved DUT (Device Under Test)
Connector and can be used to verify the compliance of Integrated Circuits
(ICs) with HyperTransport Caves, Tunnels, Switches, and Host Bridges to the
approved HyperTransport Compliance Check List. HyperTransport technology is
licensed on a royalty-free basis through the HyperTransport Technology
Consortium and is a universal chip-to-chip I/O technology that provides high
bandwidth, scalability, low-cost implementations and software compatibility
with legacy PCI I/O technology.
"This new Compatibility Platform from GDA Technologies is an important
product
for the HyperTransport-enabled market," said Gabriele Sartori, president of
the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. "As the HyperTransport market grows
rapidly from over 30 million ports shipped in 2003 to over 200 million ports
in 2006, it is imperative that the consumers of HyperTransport- enabled
devices and systems be assured that they will be compatible."
"This will undoubtedly spur a wider adoption of HyperTransport technology,"
said Brian Holden, Principal Engineer in PMC-Sierra's MIPS Processor Division
and Chair of the HyperTransport Consortium Technical Working Group. "Both
semiconductor and system vendors are likely to find this Consortium
recommended Compatibility Platform a useful tool for verifying the
interoperability of HyperTransport-enabled devices."
Todd Hironaka, Chair of the HyperTransport Infrastructure Task Force,
added,
"This commercially available interoperability platform is very attractive for
the HyperTransport community. GDA Technologies is providing a very important
tool for system manufacturers to use to determine interoperability of
devices."
The GDA Technologies HT8000 HyperTransport Compatibility Platform is a
12.25"
by 6.5" printed circuit board with a Virtex-II Series FPGA from Xilinx,
multiple HyperTransport I/O links and two types of specialized interfaces. One
is the HyperTransport Compatibility Program defined device-under-test or DUT
connector, to which a HyperTransport device or subsystem can be linked to the
HT8000 board. The second is a test fixture socket compatible with the
FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport Analysis Probe for the Agilent Logic
Analyzer. FuturePlus, Agilent and Xilinx are HyperTransport Consortium
members.
"The HT 8000 platform is an important new offering from GDA's
HyperTransport
program. It allows semiconductor and system companies to ensure their
HyperTransport based ICs are interoperable with other HT enabled devices,"
said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies. "Our
unmatched HyperTransport offerings are designed to enable our customers get to
the market quickly while reducing their development risks and cost."
"The availability of a compatibility test platform will be well received by
HyperTransport designers", said Ron DiGiuseppe, Sr. Marketing Manager for IP
Cores at Xilinx. "It will help accelerate compatibility testing and enable
rapid deployment of HyperTransport interconnects. Xilinx is pleased to have
worked with GDA Technologies and the HyperTransport Consortium during the
design and development of the board."
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