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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 July 2004
Pair to optimise Advanced Switching IP
Mentor Graphics has established an intellectual property technology relationship with Xyratex, a leading supplier of enterprise storage solutions targeting Advanced Switching data fabrics
Mentor Graphics has established an intellectual property (IP) technology relationship with Xyratex, a leading supplier of enterprise storage solutions targeting Advanced Switching (ASI) data fabrics. Xyratex is a leading contributor in the development of the Advanced Switching specification.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 July 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This specification, targeting networking equipment manufacturers, enables the standardisation of today's proprietary-based backplanes for cost and reduced design-time efficiencies.
Mentor Graphics is a leading provider of certified, standards-based IP cores that includes PCI Express as a key product offering.
Advanced Switching is a multi-point, peer-to-peer switched interconnect standard offering encapsulation of any protocol, multiple messaging mechanisms, quality of service (QoS) including congestion management, extended high availability features and much more.
It uses the same physical- and data-link layers as the PCI Express architecture, taking advantage of the tremendously large ecosystem poised to command the market starting in 2004.
"Our development activity is driving towards adoption of new standards", said Will Leonard, Executive VP of New Business Development, Xyratex Integrated Systems Division.
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"We selected Mentor Graphics as our SoC partner for Advanced Switching interface IP because of their history and reputation for delivering proven, reusable IP solutions and their commitment to industry standards and certification".
Xyratex and Mentor Graphics engineers have been closely involved in ensuring the solution meets the requirements of the ASI specification and the needs of next generation interconnect solutions.
"We believe the next generation of enterprise computing and communications platforms will require a low cost, high bandwidth interconnect solution".
"The combination of PCI Express physical layer technology with the versatility of the ASI protocol will help our customers achieve this goal", said Ian Johnson, Chief Scientist of Xyratex.
"We are pleased to work closely with early adopters of important new technologies", said Michael Kaskowitz, General Manager, Intellectual Property Division, Mentor Graphics.
"Sharing our mutual knowledge of the Advanced Switching standard, and leveraging our experience in producing compliant IP solutions help reduce risks of failure".
"This relationship helps strengthen our leading position in the development of standards-based communication IP cores".
All Mentor Graphics IP cores are delivered to the highest quality standards.
The PCI Express Configurable Port will be available in VHDL and Verilog source code, with testbench and documentation.
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