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StarGen Announces SFS2100 StarFabric Switch Card for PICMIG 2.17 Platforms
Switch Provides Cost-Effective, Flexible Solution for High-Availability, Embedded Distributed Computing Platforms
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - June 3, 2002 - StarGen, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, today announced the availability of the SFS2100 StarFabric Switch Card, a powerful switching solution for CompactPCIŽ StarFabric Platforms (PICMG 2.17). StarFabric provides a seamless migration path for embedded equipment from today's bus-based interconnects to a robust switched interconnect architecture. StarFabric enables high-bandwidth, fault-tolerant, and scalable point-to-point solutions with support for multiple classes of service.
"StarFabric, in full production now, has become a recognized industry leader for advanced switching technologies, particularly for embedded distributed processing systems," said Tracy Richardson, chief executive officer of StarGen, Inc. "The recent adoption by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturing Group (PICMG) of the CompactPCI StarFabric Specification (2.17) is another key milestone in the wide-spread acceptance of StarFabric technology. The addition of the SFS2100 switch card to the StarFabric marketplace greatly enhances our goal of providing tools and enablers that allow developers of embedded systems to rapidly deploy StarFabric-based solutions."
The SFS2100 is designed to maximize system performance and flexibility while protecting the investment in existing CompactPCI software and hardware. It enables OEMs and system integrators to quickly develop high-availability, carrier-class platforms for the embedded market.
The SFS2100 offers twenty-one 2.5Gbps full-duplex StarFabric connections to the backplane, for an aggregate switching bandwidth of 100Gbps, in a hot swap CompactPCI 6U form factor. It provides 5Gbps of bandwidth to each slot in a PICMG 2.17 chassis and maintains backwards compatibility with existing PCI software. The SFS2100 enables developers to design a wide range of next-generation equipment in diverse markets, such as communication equipment, video and imaging systems, blade servers, scientific processing, and industrial control.
Also included on the SFS2100 is a PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) site that can be configured in either a processor or peripheral mode. A processor PMC installed on the switch card can operate as a system host and fabric controller. Each card comes with a variety of software tools, including drivers for Windows 2000, Linux, and VxWorks and the Fabric Primitives Library (FPL). The FPL provides utilities that facilitate advanced StarFabric features including event handling, host fail-over, bandwidth reservation, fabric discovery, and connections.
StarGen's StarFabric technology is a high-speed, point-to-point switched backplane and chassis-to-chassis interconnect solution. It provides scalability, high-availability, and true quality of service while maintaining 100% compatibility with existing hardware and software investments. StarFabric is an industry open technology, with royalty-free licensing available through membership in the StarFabric Trade Association (www.StarFabric.org).
About StarGen
StarGen (www.stargen.com) is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed a new switched interconnect technology for the embedded and communication industries. Many embedded applications benefit from StarGen's distributed multi-processing features in the areas of video processing; medical, military and scientific imaging; and high performance cluster computing. StarGen's technology provides a dramatic increase in equipment performance, reliability, and Quality of Service while providing for the retention of existing standards-based hardware and software investment. The technology also benefits vendors of communication platforms for next generation voice, data, and video networks. Early adopters include those building open standards based access/edge equipment such as media over packet gateways, broadband access concentrators, 3G wireless infrastructure, and cable headend systems. StarGen is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
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