SAN Valley IP Used in New Xilinx Fibre Channel Core
Joint Development Positions Xilinx With Industry's Premier Fibre Channel Solutions for FPGAs
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- SAN Valley Systems, a pioneer and leader in SAN expansion, today announced successful completion of its joint development with Xilinx, Inc. The companies entered into this relationship just over a year ago with the purpose of jointly developing a new Fibre Channel intellectual property (IP) core for the new Xilinx Fibre Channel v1.0 LogiCORE(TM) products. In addition to development of the IP core, SAN Valley also provided general design services and support to Xilinx throughout the testing of these products at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH IOL).
"By supporting proven, reliable IP for Fibre Channel in the context of an FPGA-based solution, Xilinx is offering a new level of flexibility and efficiency for product developers in these markets," said Mike Frazier, director of engineering of IP Solutions at Xilinx. "We chose SAN Valley not just because of their knowledge and experience, but also their commitment to service and support."
"The skills we have in developing Fibre Channel products from the ground up made us a logical choice for this project," said Sandy Helton, president of SAN Valley. "We have been in this industry since the beginning, developing much of our own technology to address Fibre Channel requirements at all levels, from IC components all the way up to the management software."
The jointly-developed Fibre Channel v1.0 LogiCORE for the Xilinx(R) Virtex-II Pro(TM) FPGAs operates at 1Gbps, 2Gbps or dual 1Gbps/2Gbps rates. The new core successfully completed interoperability and standards conformance testing at UNH Interoperability Lab, making it the FPGA industry's premier solution, and Xilinx the only programmable logic vendor able to make this claim.
"The outstanding working relationship we had with the team at SAN Valley made this a great interaction, allowing the project through certification to be completed in a minimal time," added Frazier.
Xilinx announced immediate availability of its Fibre Channel solution in June 2004 at the SUPERCOMM show in Chicago, Illinois. The Xilinx core is designed to the ANSI INCITS X3-230-1994 (R1999), X3-297-1997 (R2002), X3-303-1998 FC-PH and T11-FC-FS (v1.9) specifications, and supports FC-0, FC-1 and part of FC-2.
About SAN Valley Systems
SAN Valley Systems developed the industry's first Fibre Channel over IP SAN expansion product and leads the market in the deployment of standards-based SAN expansion products. SAN Valley's products are protocol independent and support Fibre Channel and Internet Protocols and hence, interoperate seamlessly with other best in class networking, SAN and optical technologies to provide high performance, end-to-end storage networking solutions. Customers include industry leaders like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Company headquarters are located in San Jose, California with sales offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. For more information, please refer to the company's web site: http://www.sanvalley.com/.
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