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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GDA Technologies and Xilinx Co-develop Industry's
First
HyperTransportTM Compatibility Test Platform
SAN JOSE, CA - June 2, 2003 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing
supplier of Intellectual Property and Electronic Design Services,
and Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX), the worldwide leader of programmable logic
solutions, today announced the availability of the HT8000, the industry's
first HyperTransport Compatibility Test Platform. The HT8000 was
co-developed by GDA and Xilinx in support of the HyperTransport
Consortium's Compatibility Program (http://hypertransport.org/compatibility.html).
The HT8000 allows semiconductor and system companies to accelerate
the development and deployment of their HyperTransport based systems
by streamlining design-in, test, validation, and compatibility testing
of HyperTransport-based devices. The HyperTransport Consortium,
the non-profit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport
technology specification, has adopted the HT8000 for its HyperTransport
compatibility testing program. The HT8000 is a powerful tool for
designers tasked with conforming to the latest HyperTransport specification
and delivering silicon and systems to market quickly and successfully.
The HyperTransport compatibility platform is equipped with a Virtex-II™
FPGA from Xilinx and provides two 16-bit HyperTransport interfaces
to allow testing of host, tunnel, switch or cave based HyperTransport
configurations. The platform also provides a 16-bit SPI-4.2 and
Gigabit Ethernet interface, extending its use to validate cores
that bridge HyperTransport, SPI-4.2 and Gigabit Ethernet technologies.
The management portion includes a CPU subsystem using a Motorola
MPC8245 PowerQUICC II processor supported by 8MB Flash Memory, 128
MB SDRAM, and a serial port. The HyperTransport Interfaces use male
and female connectors from Samtec (QSE and QTE connectors) that
are compliant with the HyperTransport Consortium connector definition
for Device-Under-Test, allowing any HyperTransport device or subsystem
to be linked to the HT8000. The HT8000 platform provides a test
fixture socket compatible with the FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport
Analysis probe for the Agilent Logic Analyzer. GDA also provides
a full Embedded Linux Operating System Port kit on this platform.
"The HyperTransport compatibility platform will help the rapid
deployment of HyperTransport technology by Solution Providers and
OEMs in the marketplace. We are delighted to be the first companies
to offer this unique platform in the market and to win the endorsement
of the HyperTransport consortium," said Gopa Periyadan, vice
president and General Manager of System and Software Design Business
Unit at GDA.
"Xilinx is using the HT8000 platform for hardware validation
and interoperability testing of our own HyperTransport cores. The
platform is an ideal tool to demonstrate interoperability with industry
leaders, thereby reducing customer time to market," said Ron
DiGiuseppe, senior marketing manager of System Interfaces in the
IP Solutions Division at Xilinx.
GDA has worked closely with Xilinx and the HyperTransport Consortium
during the definition and design stages of The HT8000. GDA will
be responsible for production and support of the HT8000. Both GDA
and Xilinx are members of the HyperTransport Consortium.
GDA is a leading worldwide provider of comprehensive set of HyperTransport
IP cores. GDA HyperTransport IP offerings include Host, Bridge,
Tunnel and Cave. These re-useable IP blocks enable networking, communication,
embedded applications, and PC companies to easily integrate HyperTransport
I/O technology in their high-performance IC designs. As part of
the IP licensing package, GDA provides extensive set of documentation
and support to minimize a customer's time to market, risk, and development
costs. Additional information about GDA's HyperTransport IP cores
and intellectual property licensing program is available at http://hypertransport.gdatech.com.
Pricing and Availability
The HT8000 is available now from GDA Technologies. The platform
supports Xilinx Virtex-II devices ranging from 3 million system
gates to 6 million system gates. The HT8000 is available with Embedded
Linux. Pricing details are available through GDA sales
at info@gdatech.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 for 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 developed
products 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.
The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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