Avery Design Systems Announces Support for Advanced Switching Technology; Avery Design to Participate in Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2004 Avery Design Systems Inc., the leader in verification solutions for 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. (a) technology, today announced its support for efforts to drive industry-wide adoption of the Advanced Switching (AS) Interconnect standard based on the PCI Express architecture. Avery will participate in the newly formed ASI-SIG ASI-SIG Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group . The formation of the ASI-SIG is an important step to drive the Advanced Switching specification forward and to enable designers to develop scalable switched interconnect and data-fabric architectures based on the PCI Express standard. "As a participant in the ASI-SIG and a leading provider of PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Verification IP solutions, Avery continues to provide the industry with a reduced-risk path for bringing standards-compliant products to market quickly," said Chilai Huang, president, Avery Design Systems. "Our verification frameworks will provide complete reference environments for AS Switch and Base/AS Bridge solutions including switch, bridge, and endpoint BFMs, protocol assertions, and compliance test suites which can validate AS designs at the various PI, TL, DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. , and PHY See physical layer and physical. layers." The ASI-SIG was created to facilitate the promotion and adoption of the Advanced Switching Interconnect specification within the industry. This specification will enable a standards-based building-block approach to wireless, communications, storage, telecommunications and embedded product development, eliminating for the first time the burden of costly, time-consuming proprietary schemes. "Advanced Switching technology has moved from its specification development phase into its enabling phase in 2004," said Rajeev Kumar Rajeev Kumar ()–famous Activist and Educationist from New Delhi, India. Founder of MASS Movement and Action for Social Services-(मास). Major Projects : (1) SARLA – He is running a chain of Sewing centres in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, , president, ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. SIG and Advanced Switching Initiatives manager at Intel. A critical next step to allow for successful system-level utilization of Advanced Switching in 2005 will be the availability of building block tools, such as IP, VIP, FPGAs and silicon. The ASI SIG has seen strong interest from industry leading companies to develop these building blocks for widespread availability in 2004." The Advanced Switching technology is a scalable switched interconnect and data-fabric architecture based on the PCI Express standard for interconnecting components and system boards in low- to middle-range applications. Advanced Switching is expected to provide a comprehensive array of features, including enhanced high-availability functions, peer-to-peer and multicast networking, congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and system management, scalability, and support for virtually any networking protocol. About Avery Design Systems Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of functional verification Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at http://www.avery-design.com. (a) PCI-SIG and PCI Express are either registered trademarks or trademarks of PCI-SIG in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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