MindShare Presents Comprehensive PCI Express Technical Seminar in Austin.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2004

March 9-11 Seminar to Equip Austin-Area Engineers with Skills in

Emerging Technology for Wide Range of Industries

MindShare, Inc., the leading provider of technical training, today announced it will present a comprehensive technical training seminar next month in Austin, Texas. The seminar on the PCI Express(TM) architecture, expected to be a dominant technology in the communications, computing and industrial-control industries, will be held March 9-11 at the AmeriSuites Austin North Central Hotel, located at 7522 N. I-35 Austin, Texas 78752.

"The Austin area is home to some of the most talented engineers in the technology industry, so conducting this PCI Express seminar there will be a logical blend of MindShare expertise with an engineering community that is sure to benefit from it," said Don Anderson, vice president of MindShare.

MindShare's PCI Express core architecture course, taught by Joe Winkles, was developed to provide engineers with a comprehensive understanding of the PCI Express architecture. A three-day seminar, it will satisfy the needs of the busy engineer unable to take a longer class. The course covers major aspects of the PCI Express specification from a hardware-design perspective and also discusses the software requirements of PCI Express implementations. MindShare's established background in legacy platform design along with a comprehensive understanding of the latest technologies, such as PCI-X 2.0, InfiniBand, and HyperTransport, provides rich insight into the PCI Express technology and yields a superior training experience. The course provides in-depth information, example implementations, and practical guidance that will give you a running start on your PCI Express project.

Winkles, who holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, was a hardware design engineer with a major technology company. Additionally, he served as technical editor for multiple MindShare publications on interconnect technology, including PCI Express, which he's taught to several hundred engineers.

Course contents:

-- Architectural Perspective

-- PCI Express Overview

-- Address Spaces and Transaction Routing

-- Packet-Based Transactions

-- ACK/NAK Protocol

-- Quality of Service/Virtual Channels and Arbitration

-- Link Flow Control

-- Transaction Ordering

-- Interrupt Handling

-- Error Detection and Handling 

-- Physical Layer Logic

-- Electrical Physical Layer

-- System Reset

-- Link Initialization & Link Training

-- Power Management Overview

-- Configuration Overview

-- Configuration Mechanisms

-- PCI Express Enumeration

-- Configuration Registers (within 256 byte configuration space)

-- Extended Space Configuration Registers (within 4KB config.

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Registration fees for the seminar, which includes the course textbook, continental breakfast, lunch and snacks, is $1495 ($1995 after Feb. 29). To register, please go to www.mindshare.com or contact [e-mail].

About MindShare, Inc.

Mindshare, Inc. delivers innovative courses for dozens of companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Mindshare course topics include PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express, InfiniBand, USB, IA32 Processors, AGP, HyperTransport, and FireWire (IEEE 1394). MindShare is dedicated to communicating this information to the hardware and software design community in detailed, yet understandable form. For more information on MindShare and their reference library, visit MindShare's web site at www.mindshare.com.