GDA Technologies Selected by iStor Networks for PCI Express Cores
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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 4, 2006 -- Embedded Systems
Conference -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing
supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design
Services (EDS), today announced that iStor Networks, Inc.,
an innovative technology leader in storage networking
technologies, has selected GDA for PCI Express cores to
broaden the company's ongoing iSCSI product development
efforts. The GDA PCI Express Controller core, called GPEX,
is integrated into iStor products for iSCSI storage area
networks. GPEX is a highly configurable core that is
optimized for link utilization, latency, reliability, and
silicon footprint for both ASIC and FPGA implementations.
"GDA is a leader in the emerging market for PCI Express
products," said Carl Baldini, Vice President of Hardware
Engineering at iStor Networks Inc. "GPEX technology is
helping iStor integrate PCI-Express into its iSCSI Storage
products that deliver outstanding reliability, scalability
and performance." The GigaStorATX product family enables
OEM's, Value Added Resellers and System Integrators the
opportunity to use off-the-shelf PC Server and Storage ATX
enclosures to build high performance, feature rich, power
efficient and cost effective iSCSI RAID storage solutions.
"iStor is a leader in their market space and we are excited
to work with them," said Amit Saxena, Director of IP
Business at GDA Technologies Inc. "The iStor design-win is a
validation of our PCI Express IP core quality, because it is
noted throughout the industry that they select the best
class of solutions for their products."
GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.1 specifications and is
available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It
supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex
solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction
layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and
provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface.
GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to
16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload
size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer
size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions
and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules.
GDA is a member of the Intel(R) Developer Network for PCI
Express Architecture, Intel(R) Communications Alliance,
PCISIG, Arapahoe Working Group and PICMG.
About GDA Technologies, Inc.
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 market segments. GDA has developed many
high performance IP cores for compute, and networking
interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems,
boards, SoCs, ASICs, FPGAs' concept to product. It has
successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high
speed 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 iStor Networks
iStor Networks, Inc.(TM) is committed to being an innovative
technology leader in iSCSI storage networking technologies.
Founded in Irvine, California, in February 2002, iStor
leverages its core competency in designs of massive parallel
processing, ASIC, storage and networking to deliver a line
of robust, next generation IP Storage subsystem controller
product. www.istor.com
iStor provides ultra fast performance, high availability
network storage solutions for enterprise level SAN and NAS
storage networking applications. The company's IP Storage
products deliver very reliable, available and scalable
capabilities at affordable prices. iStor's patent-pending
architecture makes it possible to transfer storage data at
10Gb/s. iStor focuses its highly available solutions on
server and storage OEM customers enabling them to deliver
cutting-edge, value-added storage networking features such
as link aggregation, failover, QoS, volume virtualization,
and other differentiating next-generation iSCSI
enhancements.
For more info, visit www.gdatech.com or contact Chris
Woodward at news@gdatech.com.
