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Silicon Building Blocks for Blade Server Designs

Silicon Building Blocks for Blade Server Designs. accelerate your Innovation. Agenda. Several Interface choices One set doesn’t fit all application needs Key Silicon Building blocks for Blade servers PCI Express Hypertransport Rapid IO Advanced Switching 10 G Ethernet.

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Silicon Building Blocks for Blade Server Designs

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  1. Silicon Building Blocks for Blade Server Designs accelerate your Innovation

  2. Agenda • Several Interface choices • One set doesn’t fit all application needs • Key Silicon Building blocks for Blade servers • PCI Express • Hypertransport • Rapid IO • Advanced Switching • 10 G Ethernet

  3. Several Interface Choices • Load Store and messaging • PCI, PCI-X, PCI Express • HyperTransport • RapidIO • Back plane • Ethernet • PCI, PCI-Express • RapidIO • Infiniband • Advanced Switching.. • Memory • SDR, DDR1, DDR2 • Networking • Ethernet, SPI4.. • Storage • SATA, FC, SAS

  4. One set doesn’t fit all There are many factors which influence the selection of interfaces: • Processor selection • Cost • Performance (bandwidth, pins, latency..) • High availability needs • Availability of IP blocks and ICs • Software complexity and compatibility

  5. SPI Phase 4.2 SSO for Key Building Blocks

  6. Configurations of Key Building Blocks RapidIO Serial Parallel HyperTransport Cave Tunnel Host Bridge PCI Express Endpoint Root Complex Switch port SPI 4.2 Single channel Multi channel AS Endpoint Switch port PI-2, PI-8 Ethernet 10/100/1G MAC 10G MAC

  7. Criteria for Silicon Building Blocks • System Validated • Inter-operability tested • compliance certification Quality • Customization services • Implementation services Service Enabled • Validation services • Supports multiple technologies • Supports multiple Tool flows Highly Configurable • Supports multiple Applications • Cuts design time • Cuts verification time Total Solution • Offers complementary IPs

  8. RapidIO PIPE PCI-X ASI PCIE Probe PCI-Express IP under validation Ethernet ASI HT Probes Debug connectors PCI-Express HyperTransport IP approach with system perspective NGIO Platform for: • System level validation • Interoperability testing • Compliance certification • Protocol bridge validation • Switch validation • PHY interoperability testing

  9. About GDA • Founded in 1996 • Electronic Design Services for compute, networking and consumer markets • Silicon IP Supplier of interconnect technologies • PCI-Express, Hypertransport, Rapid IO • SPI 4.2, Ethernet, Advanced switching • Significant experience in ATCA and Server designs • Board, ASIC, FPGA design services • One of the fastest growing private companies in US • 284th Inc 500 list of year 2002 • 250 employees

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