(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020822/XLNXLOGO )Today in related news, Xilinx announced its 'Serial Tsunami' initiative to
accelerate and support the broad industry adoption of high-speed serial I/O.
The Aurora open protocol is one of many Xilinx serial solutions designed to
drive down system costs and keep pace with current and future bandwidth
requirements.
"With the introduction of Virtex-II Pro devices -- the industry's first
platform FPGA including RocketIO(TM) multi-gigabit serial transceivers and IBM
PowerPC processors -- Xilinx has taken FPGAs to the heart of systems design.
The RocketIO transceivers ensures that high-speed serial I/O is no longer an
exotic technology, but within the reach of every engineer building electronic
systems," said Per Holmberg, worldwide director of Programmable Systems
Marketing at Xilinx. "The Aurora solution is all about providing a simple
serial interface for engineers looking for cost-optimized system connectivity
solutions."
The Aurora open protocol is a scalable, resource-efficient connectivity
solution, providing designers with the flexibility to partition their systems
without having to worry about routing hundreds of pins on a PC board. Aurora
uses gigabit serial technology at the physical layer and generates up to
3.125 Gbps raw bandwidth with as little as four pins. Further, Aurora can
aggregate from one to twenty four physical channels together into channel
bonded virtual links. With this flexibility Aurora can be scaled for
chip-to-chip, board-to-board, chip-to-backplane and box-to-box interconnect.
This scalability allows Aurora to optimally support a myriad of applications
such as terabit routers and switches, remote access switches, HDTV broadcast
systems, bladed servers and storage subsystems that require very high data
transfer rates.
Availability
The Aurora open protocol specification and reference design are available
immediately free of charge. Customers can register and download the solution
on the Aurora Solutions Suite website at http://www.xilinx.com/aurora .
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions.
For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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