2002 PCI-SIG Developers Conference Tours Tokyo and Taipei; Conference Sessions Present Newest PCI-SIG Specifications Direct from Authors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 2002 PCI-SIG Developers Conference PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 The PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) today announced the 2002 PCI-SIG Developers Conference Tour in Tokyo, Japan and Taipei, Taiwan on September 20 and 24. These technical events immerse attendees in a full day of hands-on education that covers all facets of the newest PCI specifications and includes training sessions taught by PCI-SIG experts. With a focus on PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. (TM) (formerly 3GIO GIO Giovedì (Italian: Thursday) GIO Government Information Office GIO Geographic Information Officer GIO General Insurance Ombudservice GIO Government Information Online GIO Government Insurance Office ) and PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. 2.0, participants will learn about architectural details, protocol, signaling, electromechanicals, and migration. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , the conferences provide an opportunity for local Asian developers to directly learn from and interact with the world-renowned PCI experts who led development efforts for the specifications. The first 2002 PCI-SIG Developers Conference (DevCon) will be held September 20 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Tokyo. Taipei will host the second PCI-SIG DevCon on Tuesday, September 24 at the Grand Formosa Regent Hotel. With increased momentum rallying behind PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express since their public debut in July 2002, the PCI-SIG DevCon is a valuable, timely event for hardware design engineers, OS/firmware/device driver developers, engineering managers and systems architects in all areas of the computing and communications field. "Asia represents a very important market to the PCI-SIG and we want to bring our best people face-to-face with local Asian developers," said Tony Pierce, chairman of the PCI-SIG, "With our 10-year track record, the PCI-SIG continues its commitment to ensure successful adoption of our technologies by bringing the developer education program and compliance workshop to Asia." Featured Speakers Conference sessions will be led by PCI Express workgroup chairman, Ajay Bhatt and PCI-X 2.0 workgroup chairman, Dwight Riley. As lead architect for PCI Express, Mr. Bhatt drives development of the scaleable PCI Express specification. Mr. Riley, Principal Member of Technical Staff for Hewlett-Packard, also leads the PCI-X 2.0 specification for the PCI-SIG. "The PCI-SIG Developers Conferences give local engineers the opportunity to discuss development issues in-person with PCI-SIG experts," said Al Yanes, president of the PCI-SIG. "Our focus on PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express gives attendees the choice to delve deeply into the two newest technologies with the key PCI-SIG members who wrote those specifications." Compliance Workshop In addition to the PCI-SIG DevCons, the PCI-SIG will also host a three-day Compliance Workshop in Taipei. The compliance workshop offers PCI-SIG members an unparalleled opportunity to test and validate their products as they enter the market. Workshop testing contains two elements; 1) Specification Compliance: developers can test their products with the PCI-SIG maintained "Gold" test suite, 2) Interoperability: developers can test their products with other leading manufacturers of PCI products. With successful test results, and by completing the compliance checklist, the products are able to become part of the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. PCI-SIG Integrator's List, by which purchasing decisions are often made. Membership Benefits PCI-SIG member companies receive eight complimentary passes to the PCI-SIG Developers Conference. PCI-SIG membership provides many other benefits such as free technical support for specification issues, vendor ID (VID VID Video VID Vide (Latin: See) VID Vendor Id (USB PnP ID) VID Visual InterDev (Microsoft development environment) VID VLAN Identifier (IEEE 802. ), access to the compliance program, and the ability to influence the direction of open-standard industry specifications as well as the PCI-SIG organization itself. Registration While member companies may attend the conference free-of-charge, all developers are welcome to attend the 2002 PCI-SIG DevCon. General registration information about the conference can be accessed at http://www.pcisig.com/events/devcontour. Members of the media are also welcome to join engineers and developers to attend the DevCons in Taipei and Tokyo. If you are interested in receiving a press pass for this conference, please contact Lisa Sherwin by phone at 503/297-3704, or by email at lsherwin@vtm-inc.com. About the PCI-SIG The PCI-SIG is the Special Interest Group that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines and implements new industry standard I/O standard I/O - standard input/output (Input/Output) specifications as the industry's local I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output needs evolve. The PCI Special Interest Group was formed in 1992, and the organization became a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. , officially named "PCI-SIG" in the year 2000. Currently, more than 800 worldwide industry-leading companies are active PCI-SIG members. The PCI-SIG's current directors are employed by the following PCI-SIG member companies: Adaptec, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix Technologies, ServerWorks and TI. For more information about the PCI-SIG, and PCI-SIG membership benefits, contact the PCI-SIG by phone, at 800/433-5177 (within the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ), or by fax at 503/297-1090, or visit the PCI-SIG web site at: http://www.pcisig.com. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. |
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