Advantest Testers Ship with StarFabric Advanced Serial Interconnect.MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- StarGen, a semiconductor company specializing in advanced serial switched interconnect solutions, today announced that Advantest, the leading developer of Automated Test Equipment for the semiconductor industry, is using StarGen's StarFabric bridge and switch devices in their new testers. Advantest chose StarFabric because of its 2.5Gb/second performance capabilities and re-configurable fabric features. The high speed serial nature of StarFabric and its ability to span rack to room scale distances provides a tremendous advantage in configuring test equipment. These features gave Advantest added capabilities for interconnect between test heads and CPUs. In addition, StarFabric's PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). compatibility allowed Advantest designers to interface to existing PCI buses PCI bus - Peripheral Component Interconnect and reduced development time. "StarFabric technology provides Advantest engineers with the ability to offer more flexible, advanced test solutions to the industry, and its compatibility with existing architecture simplified the design and accelerated the design process," said Kawasaki Kunihiko, manager of Advantest. "Advantest is a technology leader in the ATE industry," said Tim Miller, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of StarGen. "We are pleased to have our products selected by Advantest to extend the capabilities of their testers. With the added capabilities of StarFabric, Advantest is able to provide leading edge solutions to their customers." StarGen has experienced widespread adoption of StarFabric, having sold over two hundred thousand StarFabric ports to more than 50 customers worldwide with design wins across a broad spectrum of markets including storage, communications, high performance imaging, automated test, and video distribution, among many others. StarFabric is unique in the market as a low cost, easy to adopt, customer tested, switched interconnect technology that is solving real world problems today in customers' production systems. With its StarFabric product line including the SG1010 StarFabric Switch and the SG2010 PCI-to-StarFabric Bridge, StarGen has continued to be a leader in providing solutions to embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. and communication equipment OEMs. StarGen has leveraged the experience and expertise gained through StarFabric to develop a new product line, slated for delivery in early 2005, comprising a family of bridges and switches based on the emerging 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. and Advanced Switching industry standards. This new portfolio provides high bandwidth serial switched interconnect solutions for next-generation communication, storage, server, and embedded system Any electronic system that uses a CPU chip, but that is not a general-purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such systems generally use microprocessors, or they may use custom-designed chips or both. designs that require solutions for backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. scalability, peer-to-peer computing See grid computing. , multiple protocols, flexible topologies, and high bandwidth/low latency performance. StarGen has been a major driver in the development of the Advanced Switching (AS) specifications that will define the dominant next-generation interconnect standard for storage, 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 , embedded and communications equipment, and is a sponsor of the newly formed Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. SIG). 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. and has sold over two hundred thousand StarFabric ports to more than 50 customers worldwide, with design wins across a broad spectrum of markets including storage, communications, high performance imaging, automated test, and video distribution, among many others. The Advanced Switching product line, slated for delivery in early 2005, will feature a family of bridges and switches based on the emerging PCI Express and Advanced Switching Interconnect industry standards. StarGen is also a sponsor of the Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (ASI SIG) and chairs the Marketing Work Group and key Technical Work Groups. StarGen (www.stargen.com) is headquartered in Marlborough, MA. Note to editors: PCI Express is a trademark of PCI-SIG. StarGen and StarFabric are trademarks of StarGen. All other trademarks and products are the property of their respective owners. |
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