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Xilinx Press Release # 05100

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 18, 2005

XILINX DEMONSTRATES IEEE802.17-COMPLIANT RPR MAC SOLUTION
AT NSDC 2005
 

What: Xilinx Wired Communications Solutions at Network Systems Design Conference (NSDC) 2005
Where: Booth #220, Parkside Hall, San Jose Calif
When: October 18 - October 20, 2005

Xilinx Booth Demonstrations:

  • Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) MAC Reference Design - Reconfigurable RPR MAC solution targeted for Xilinx Virtex™-4 FPGAs. Ideal for RPR equipment supporting 1G, 2.5G, and 10G RPR designs. Demo implements a multi node RPR ring.
  • Cell Switch Reference Design - Shared Memory Cell Switch solution targeted for Xilinx Virtex™-4 FPGAs. Ideal for Serial Backplane and chip-to-chip applications. Demo implements a 4-port cell switch using RocketIO PHY. Statistics such as latency, throughput, error rate are reported.

Xilinx Tutorial on Tuesday, October 18

  • “Introduction to the Advanced Switching Interface (ASI)”
    Presenter: Kiran Puranik. Sr. Staff Design Engineer, Xilinx

Xilinx Panel Sessions on Wednesday, October 19

  • “Bus Wars - Which Interconnect is Best for Networking Equipment, Why, and When?”
    Presenter: Delfin Rodillas, Staff System Architect , Wired Communications, Xilinx
  • “40GHz: The Next Frontier in Networking Applications”
    Presenters: Anthony Torza, Staff System Architect and Adrian Cosoroaba, Memory Solutions Manager, Xilinx
  • “Which Technology is Right for Networking Equipment (ASICs, FPGAs, Platform ASICS, Fixed Function Chips, General-Purpose Processors or NPs)”
    Presenter: Delfin Rodillas, Staff System Architect, Wired Communications, Xilinx

About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.

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Editorial contact:
Tamara Snowden
Xilinx Public Relations
(408) 879-6146
tamara.snowden@xilinx.com

 
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