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Silicon Proven IP and integration services targeted to significantly
reduce the development time for HyperTransportTM Compliant device
San Jose, Calif. – Jan 23, 2002 – GDA Technologies, Inc,
a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services,
today announced the availability of a HyperTransportTM Tunnel IP and related
integration services. HyperTransportinterconnect technology is a new
high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link for integrated circuits,
developed to enable the chips inside of high-performance compute devices,
networking and communications devices to communicate with each other faster
than with existing technologies.
The basic implementation of this HyperTransportTunnel IP was extracted
from technology originally developed by AMD. GDA has converted this to
a re-usable IP block to enable high performance IC designs using HyperTransportI/O technology.
"This is a very important step in the evolution of the HyperTransportConsortium. As a leader and promoter of HyperTransporttechnology, AMD
is pleased to enable GDA Technologies," said Richard Heye, vice president
of Platform Engineering and Infrastructure for AMD’s Computation
Products Group. "GDA’s IP offerings and associated services
are designed to help to enable HyperTransportadopters to launch HypertTransport
technology based products in a timely fashion."
HyperTransporttechnology's bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec represents up to a
48-fold increase in data throughput, compared with existing system interconnects
that typically provide bandwidth of up to 266MB/sec. HyperTransportcomplements
externally visible bus standards like the Peripheral Component Interconnect
(PCI), as well as emerging technologies including InfiniBand and 10Gb
Ethernet.
The HyperTransportTunnel IP from GDA is a fully compliant (Version 1.03),
Silicon Validated design with complete verification and synthesis environment.
This design provides a highly flexible peripheral interface to user’s
logic in addition to the upstream and downstream HyperTransportLink interfaces.
A pre-release of the IP will be available for limited customers in January
2002. A general release is planned for April 2002. The IP package consists
of Verilog RTL code, Verification environment, Test cases as well as detailed
design documentation. The EDA tools supported in the current release are
Verilog-NC, Verilog-XL and Design Compiler.
In addition to the IP, GDA also offers a suite of design services to enable
integration of this core into customer design. GDA will provide additional
design, Verification as well as Physical implementation of the customer
device on demand. GDA is currently discussing with various semiconductor
vendors to qualify this IP in their respective technologies and offer
this IP to their end customers.
"As HyperTransporttechnology produces a fast interconnect technology
to deal with the latest networking and server applications, we believe
this offering from GDA is designed to tremendously boost the proliferation
of HyperTransporttechnology," said Gabriele Sartori, president of
the HyperTransportTechnology Consortium. "GDA, a contributor member
of the HyperTransportTechnology Consortium, is positioned to make this
IP offering and continue to evolve it as the consortium defines new features
and revisions of the specification."
Started in 1996, GDA Technologies provides Intellectual Property (IP)
and IP enabled design services for IC, System and embedded software design.
During this time, GDA successfully developed several networking IP blocks
such as Utopia3, SPI-4, 1G/10G MAC and T1/E1 Framer in addition to a suite
of SOC components such as PCI, USB, SDRAM Controller, AC97, Reed Solomon
and HDLC Controller. In Addition, GDA provides complete design services
from SOC integration, Verification, Physical design and Silicon Validation.
"HyperTransport is a right choice for many applications that need
high bandwidth and limited pin count. With the release of this core, our
customers can focus on their vertical expertise while using our HyperTransporttunnel IP to solve the I/O bottlenecks in their IC designs" said
AG Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc.
Key features of GDA Tunnel IP
> Compliant with HyperTransportI/O Link Specification, version 1.03
> Provides Dual HyperTransportlink Ports (A and B) which can be used
as I/O channel connecting HyperTransporttechnology compliant devices
> Port A allows data widths of 16, 8, 4 or 2 bits
> Port B allows data widths of 8,4 or 2 bits
> Both ports support 800, 600, 500, 400 or 200 MHz link frequency
> Maximum bandwidth is 6.4 GB/sec on Port A and 3.2 on Port B side
> Either link port may connect to the upstream host device or down
stream HyperTransportcompliant device.
About HyperTransportTM Technology
HyperTransporttechnology is here and now; a high-speed, high-performance,
interconnect for integrated circuits that provide a universal connection
designed to reduce the number of buses within the system. It provides
a high-performance link for networking and embedded applications, and
enables highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It is designed to enable
the chips inside of PCs, servers, networking and communications devices
to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than existing bus
technologies. HyperTransporttechnology enables system designers to develop
very complex, high-performance, scalable networking topologies through
switching technology, while maintaining and improving the scalability
and performance of their existing legacy PCI infrastructures. Additional
information about HyperTransporttechnology or the HyperTransportConsortium
can be accessed on the World Wide Web www.hypertransport.org
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked
computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the
United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard
& Poor’s 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory
devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications.
Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of
$3.9 billion in 2001. (NYSE: AMD). For more AMD news and product information,
please visit www.amd.com
About GDA Technologies
GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company with high value
IP, Value added Design services and flexible engineering resources around
the world targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics
markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's
and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developedproducts
in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video
applications, Internet appliances, Voice and Data networking applications
and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore,
Chennai and Bangalore, India.
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