ADVISORY/StarFabric Demonstration Highlights PCI Expansion and Distributed Processing at electronicaUSA.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Monday-Thursday (March 29-April 1) electronicaUSA 2004 Communications Design Conference 2004 --(BUSINESS WIRE) StarGen to Show Numerous Advantages of Implementing Switched Fabric Interconnects
WHO: StarGen, a semiconductor company that supplies advanced
serial switched interconnect solutions and offers a
complete line of StarFabric bridge and switch products,
will demonstrate StarFabric's PCI compatibility, scalability
and performance at this year's electronicaUSA and Embedded
Systems Conference. StarFabric-based products are currently
being designed into a wide range of market segments including
medical imaging, video serving, semiconductor testing,
communication routers and switches, military command and
control, and storage equipment. StarGen is also developing
StarXpress, a new family of products that incorporates PCI
Express and Advanced Switching technology.
WHAT: StarGen, developer of the StarFabric serial switched
interconnect architecture, will be demonstrating the
advantages of switched fabric interconnects in embedded
processing applications. The demonstration will show the
overall benefits of using StarFabric, an easy-to-implement,
PCI-compatible switched interconnect, in PCI bus expansion
and distributed processing. Benefits include 5Gb/s
bi-directional bandwidth, "pay as you grow" scalability,
PCI software compatibility, high-availability, and low cost.
WHERE: electronicaUSA and the Embedded Systems Conference
(http://www.esconline.com/electronicaUSA/), one of the
largest systems design events in North America, will take
place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. StarGen's
demonstration will take place at its booth, #1137-S.
WHEN: electronicaUSA and the Embedded Systems Conference will take
place from Monday, March 29th through Thursday, April 1st,
2004. The conference is geared toward system design
engineers, technical managers, and embedded software
developers and features more than 8,000 products including
the latest semiconductor, interconnect, power and other
system component technologies, plus software and tools needed
to build competitive designs.
The conference also features more than 300 tutorials, classes
and panel discussions focused on the practical challenges in
designing processor based systems for communications,
consumer, industrial control, military medical,
automotive/transportation and other applications.
About StarGen StarGen is a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. providing advanced serial switched interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. solutions for compute To perform mathematical operations or general computer processing. For an explanation of "The 3 C's," or how the computer processes data, see computer. and communications equipment. It is the leading designer of low-overhead, protocol-agnostic, open standards-based serial switched architectures, which enable system designers to bring new capabilities to their system while using existing standards-based parts. StarGen's StarFabric product line benefits vendors of embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. needing enhanced switched PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). capability as well as vendors of access communication platforms for voice, data, and video networks. StarGen is also developing StarXpress, a complementary line of products built upon the Advanced Switching standard and compatible with 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). These products will be ideal solutions for blade server A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and , storage, and mid-range
scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it , reliability, and Quality of Service while maintaining backward compatibility See backward compatible. (jargon) backward compatibility - Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. to existing standards based hardware and software. StarGen (www.stargen.com) is headquartered in Marlborough Marl·bor·ough or Marl·bo·ro A city of east-central Massachusetts east-northeast of Worcester. Settled in 1657, it was nearly destroyed in 1676 during King Philip's War. Population: 38,100. , MA. Note to editors: PCI Express is a trademark of PCI-SIG. StarGen, StarFabric, and StarXpress are trademarks of StarGen. |
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