Platform approved for HyperTransport compatibilty testing

Platform approved for HyperTransport compatibilty testing
SUNNYVALE, Calif., — The HyperTransport Technology Consortium has adopted the HT8000 Compatibility Platform co-developed by member companies GDA Technologies, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. as the recommended HyperTransport compatibility test fixture. The move will hasten interoperability testing between different manufacturers' HyperTransport devices.

The platform incorporates the consortium approved DUT (Device Under Test) connector and can be used to verify the compliance of ICs with HyperTransport caves, tunnels, switches, and host bridges to the approved HyperTransport Compliance Check List.

HyperTransport technology is a universal chip-to-chip I/O technology that provides high bandwidth, scalability, low-cost implementations and software compatibility with legacy PCI I/O technology and is licensed on a royalty-free basis.

"This new Compatibility Platform from GDA Technologies is an important product for the HyperTransport-enabled market," said Gabriele Sartori, President of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. "As the HyperTransport market grows rapidly from over 30 million ports shipped in 2003 to over 200 million ports in 2006, it is imperative that the consumers of HyperTransport-enabled devices and systems be assured that they will be compatible."

The HT8000 HyperTransport Compatibility Platform, available from GDA Technologies, is a 12.25in by 6.5in PCB with a Virtex-II Series FPGA from Xilinx, multiple HyperTransport I/O links and two types of specialized interfaces. One is the Compatibility Program defined device-under-test connector, to which a HyperTransport device or subsystem can be linked to the HT8000 board.

The second is a test fixture socket compatible with the FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport analysis probe for the Agilent logic analyzer.

Over 40 HyperTransport based products and services have already been announced and the specification's preservation of software investments that already exist with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) means the interconnect technology has established a significant footprint in a number of key market segments.

The product portfolio includes tunnel, bridge, graphic and switch chips from AMD, ALi, Alliance Semiconductor, NVIDIA, PLX Technology, and VIA Technologies; programmable-logic devices from Altera and Xilinx; processors and security processors from AMD, Broadcom, Cavium, Hifn, PMC-Sierra, and Transmeta; IP cores from Altera, GDA Technologies, Nurlogic, and Xilinx; BIOS software from AMI and Phoenix Technologies; and verification and test tools from 0-In Design Automation, Agilent, FuturePlus, GDA Technologies, Schlumberger, Teradyne and TransEDA.