XaQti Releases Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit To Help OEMs Test Networking Hardware.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1998-- XaQti's GDK GDK Graphics Developers Kit GDK Gimp Drawing Kit GDK Gnu Drawing Kit GDK Game Development Kit II 32-bit PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Adapter and Test Software Provides Standards-based Platform to Develop and Test 1,000 Mbps Products XaQti Corporation, creators of "Network-on-a-CHIP"(tm) solutions for Gigabit Ethernet, today announced that its Gigabit Ethernet Development Kit II (GDK II, XQ99100BD) is now available for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers. The GDK II is a 32-bit, 33 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. , PCI adapter card designed using XaQti's second generation XMAC XMAC Expected Mac II Gigabit chip technology and XaQti's GigaBlaster applications software, and is ideal for testing any Gigabit product for performance and standards compliance. XaQti's GDK II is capable of transmitting and receiving both half- and full-duplex CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection) The LAN access method used in Ethernet. When a device wants to gain access to the network, it checks to see if the network is quiet (senses the carrier). Gigabit Ethernet traffic to allow testers to verify Gigabit Ethernet interoperability. The internal Packet Generation creates packet traffic with little or no user intervention. XaQti successfully completed interoperability tests at InterOperability Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). (IOL IOL Intraocular lens, see there ), where the GDK II was demonstrated to be compatible with Pause-frame flow control and auto-negotiation capable devices from five leading Gigabit Ethernet manufacturers. The GDK II is fully compliant with the latest IEEE 802.3z draft specifications for Gigabit Ethernet, making it an ideal compliance testing tool. "Even though we developed it for XaQti's OEMs developing their own products using our MAC chips, the GDK II is an ideal test platform for anyone who needs to verify both compatibility and performance for Gigabit Ethernet," said Samba Murthy, Vice President of Marketing and co-founder of XaQti. "We offer the only solution that meets the IEEE 802.3z draft specifications and to support half-duplex Gigabit Ethernet. And the easy-to-use GigaBlaster software can convert any Windows 95 workstation into a comprehensive Gigabit Ethernet test bed, making the GDK II very affordable." The GDK II has two simultaneous modes, one to send gigabit-speed packet traffic and a second to receive packets, making it a self-contained test environment. It also operates as a PCI slave and consists of three distinct components: a Packet Generator, a Pattern Processor, and a Statistics Module. The Packet Generator is used to define the MAC packets being generated, including the number and size of the packets, gap between packets, and other parameters. Packets can be sent in random mode, incremental mode, fixed mode, and bit rotate mode. The Pattern Processor receives the packets according to capture criteria defined in the Packet Definitions dialog. The Pattern Processor has a 256-KB memory buffer and can store up to 128 packets. Packets can be received in promiscuous mode, capture mode, capture pre-trigger mode, station mode, exact address mode, and hash match mode. The Statistics Module then provides real-time display of various counters to indicate performance, displaying transmit statistics and receive statistics, including graphs. The GigaBlaster software allows the user to define source and destination addresses, Interpacket Gap (IPG IPG Implantable pulse generator, see there ) to control packet spacing, enable/disable preamble, packet length, data pattern, and CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. . It is also capable of generating packet errors to assess packet handling, and provides on-screen graphics. A demo version of the GigaBlaster Windows 95 application is currently available on the XaQti website. The GDK II is available now for $9,995, with a purchase discount available to XMAC II chip customers. For XaQti XMAC II customers, the GDK II schematics, Gerber files, sample source code software, and bill-of-materials are available as a design aid and reference design. The GDK II and the XMAC II offer designers a complete development solution for gigabit designs. XaQti's XMAC II, the silicon engine that runs the GDK II, is a high-performance, single-chip Gigabit Ethernet MAC solution, and the only commercial silicon solution to support both half- and full-duplex frame modes. The XMAC II is designed for use by network equipment vendors in Gigabit switches, Gigabit Ethernet uplinks in 10/100 Ethernet switches, wire speed routers (gigarouters), network interface cards for high-capacity servers, embedded point-to-point applications, and other Gigabit Ethernet applications. The XMAC II chip is available in a 240-pin PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package) Refers to many varieties of QFP chip packages, which are molded in plastic. See QFP. package and is priced at $45 in 10,000 piece quantities. Sampling quantities are available immediately and production quantities will be available in June 1998. About XaQti Corporation Founded in September 1995, XaQti Corporation is a privately held semiconductor supplier focused on advanced network and Gigabit Ethernet silicon solutions. The company's "Network on a Chip"(tm) vision enables innovative, scalable network processing solutions. The company's GigaPOWER(tm) protocol acceleration technology provides programmable 7-Layer Switching(tm) chips that enable traffic management by application for IP-switching, flow switching, multicast real-time video streaming, gigabit routing, VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network , TrueSTATS(tm) RMON (Remote MONitoring) Enhancements to the management information base (MIB) structure used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP). In 1991, RMON added comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. network management. XaQti Corporation is located at 1630 Oakland Road, Building A214, San Jose, CA 95131; +1 (408) 487-0800; FAX +1 (408) 487-0801, (http://www.xaqti.com/) www.xaqti.com. -0- Note to Editors: XaQti, XMAC II, 7-Layer Switching, TrueSTATS, GigaPOWER, SuperMAC, uRMON and Network-on-a-CHIP are trademarks of XaQti Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks and registered trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: XaQti Corporation Brian Ramsey 408/487-0800 brian.ramsey@xaqti.com or Woolf Media Relations Tom Woolf 650/508-1554 tomw@woolfmedia.com |
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