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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 8, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 36
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Breaking News -
Networking:
UNH-IOL Validated 10 Gigabit
Ethernet MAC IP Core Announced
GDA Technologies Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and
Electronic Design Services, announced XGEMAC, the industry's first UNH-IOL
Compliance Validated 10 Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller, citing it as
an important building block in the infrastructure needed to advance 10 Gigabit
Ethernet transport technology into Wide Area, Metro and Local Area Networks.
The XGEMAC is a rich featured, highly configurable core and is fully compliant
to the IEEE 802.3ae specification. The XGEMAC has successfully completed
interoperability testing conducted at the University of New Hampshire (UNH-
IOL) InterOperability Laboratory on July 25.
"GDA's highly flexible system validation platform, exhaustively validated
XGEMAC design and their in-house Ethernet expertise allowed them to complete
the conformance testing very quickly, in just a few days," said Bob
Noseworthy, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium manager at the University of New
Hampshire InterOperability Lab. "GDA's XGEMAC IP successfully completed all
the 10 Gigabit Ethernet conformance tests and hence offers additional
confidence to its future licensees that their products will be in compliance
with IEEE 802.3ae specification. We are very happy to see GDA leading this new
trend in IP business in which the vendors are going all the way in creating
system implementations and compliance validation. It aligns very well with our
charter at UNH IOL of fostering industry wide 10G Ethernet interoperability
and compliance."
"The XGEMAC is a cost-effective, highly configurable and end-to-end system
validated solution for switch, router and NIC designers," said Prakash Bare,
vice president of IP business at GDA Technologies Inc. "Through the XGEMAC
offering, we provide the system designers a 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC design
that has low latency, high throughput, small foot print, and is ready-to-go
for easy integration into ASIC and FPGA implementations."
The XGEMAC adheres to the IEEE 802.3ae standard and is available for both
ASIC
and FPGA implementations. Its simple, configurable and modular architecture is
independent of application logic, PHY designs, implementation tools and most
importantly target technologies. The XGEMAC provides XGMII interface to the
line side and a flexible backend interface to the user logic on the system
side. The XGEMAC has an extensive set of filtering capabilities based on
source, destination, unicast, multicast and broadcast addresses as well as
being VLAN aware. The optional FIFO module supports configurable depths and
watermarks with a variety of control options to support lossless flow control.
The core also provides rate matching for OC-192 PHY components and a full set
of statistics counters to support SNMP/RMON.
"10 Gigabit Ethernet is the continuation of the Ethernet evolution within
and
beyond the enterprise and will enable end-to-end Ethernet network topologies.
10 Gigabit Ethernet will speed the proliferation of Ethernet technology into
MAN, WAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
markets due to its economics, simplicity and interoperability," said AGK,
president of GDA Technologies. "The XGEMAC is a great contributor to the
proliferation of Ethernet technology into the mass networking market."
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