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StarFabric Trade Association Founding Members, Bustronic and StarGen, Collaborate to Develop PICMG 2.17 Products
FREMONT, California, June 17, 2002 - Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes, and StarGen, a leading fabless semiconductor company, are collaborating to develop PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) 2.17 backplane solutions. Both companies are founding members of the StarFabric Trade Association, which owns the StarFabric architecture. The two companies continue to share a close relationship in StarFabric development, now focusing on solutions for the recently ratified PICMG 2.17 specification.
"StarGen will work closely with Bustronic to create PICMG 2.17-compliant/StarFabric-architected backplanes," said Tracy Richardson, president of StarGen. "Many potential customer talks are underway regarding a wide range of embedded distributed processing applications."
The StarFabric Trade Association, a non-profit, open membership industry group, was created to develop and promote the StarFabric switched interconnect technology. The founding members represent a wide spectrum of organizations, which together provide the broad and diverse perspective required to ensure StarFabric will continue to meet the dynamic market requirements of next generation embedded distributed processing systems.
StarFabric, an open interconnect standard originally developed by StarGen with the assistance of the StarFabric Working Group, is a powerful switched interconnect technology for backplane and chassis-to-chassis applications. It enables next-generation embedded distributed processing applications to meet market demands. The technology provides for unprecedented levels of scalability, performance and availability in a wide range of systems. It supports multiple classes of traffic adding further flexibility and enhancements to systems while leveraging existing standards-based software and hardware investments.
Bustronic was instrumental in developing the StarFabric prototype backplane, used as a basis for PICMG 2.17 backplane development. Bustronic is an Elma Electronic company, a leading electronics packaging developer. Elma brings several modular and creative chassis solutions to the table. With features for high-availability considerations, redundant power supply and cooling options, etc, Elma tackles the packaging needs for switched fabric designs.
"StarGen's expertise in I/O interconnects combined with Bustronic's leadership in switched fabric backplane solutions is an ideal fit," said Fred Hirsch, general manager of Bustronic. "We are pleased to continue to work with StarGen to develop advanced backplane solutions based on the StarFabric technology."
To learn more about PICMG 2.17 and other StarFabric products, visit the Bustronic Web site at www.bustronic.com, the StarGen Web site at www.stargen.com, or the StarFabric Trade Association Web site at www.starfabric.org
About Bustronic:
Founded in 1989, Bustronic specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance backplanes. Bustronic has a complete line of industry-standard backplanes, including CompactPCI, VME, VME64x, VME320, H.110 CTEL, and VXI. Bustronic's custom design service combines creative engineering, highly sophisticated computer simulation and modern design techniques to offer customized backplanes that meet the most specialized system requirements. A member of the ELMA Electronic group, Bustronic is located in Fremont, California. Bustronic is a member of PICMG and VITA and can be found on the World Wide Web at www.Bustronic.com.
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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