Here's another article about Infiniband I pulled from the LSI thread..
LSI Logic Speeds Early Adoption of InfiniBand With GigaBlaze 0.18-Micron Transceiver Core
Industry's First High-Speed Serial Transceiver to Support InfiniBand,
10-Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel Applications in a Single Product
MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced its 0.18-micron GigaBlaze(R) transceiver core designed to support the emerging InfiniBand interconnect standard. Fundamental to the early adoption of the next-generation standard, InfiniBand developers will be able to use LSI Logic's market proven GigaBlaze transceiver technology to address the rising demand for reliable, high-bandwidth connections to the Internet between communication networks, storage systems and computers. GigaBlaze G12(TM), processed in LSI Logic's 0.18-micron technology, will support x1, x4, and x12 wide InfiniBand 2.5 Gigabits/second links over copper and fiber.
GigaBlaze is the first solution in the industry with the flexibility and high performance to support the emerging InfiniBand interconnect standard, 10-Gigabit Ethernet applications and Fibre Channel storage area network applications all in one product. With serial transfer rates of up to 3.2 Gigabits/second, the GigaBlaze G12 is the industry's highest performance CMOS transceiver core and is built in LSI Logic's G12 0.18-micron (Leff) CMOS process for easy integration into system-level ASIC designs.
"InfiniBand architecture is a ground breaking technology for data center scalability," said Jim Pappas, Director of Initiative Marketing for Intel's Enterprise Platform Group.
"CMOS cores are critical building blocks for InfiniBand fabrics. LSI Logic's development of InfiniBand cores is a sound extension of their expertise in core development." InfiniBand is a switch-based System Area Network architecture providing new levels of reliability/availability/serviceability for computer, storage and network connectivity.
"LSI Logic's GigaBlaze G12 core is a fundamental building block for customers designing InfiniBand products aimed at leveraging the explosive increase in bandwidth and the high speed of the Internet," said Bruce Entin, vice president and general manager of LSI Logic's Internet Computing Group. "Our fourth generation GigaBlaze core is fast and flexible and can be easily integrated onto an ASIC along with other LSI Logic CoreWare(R) products for the lowest overall system costs."
The GigaBlaze cores provide full-duplex, point-to-point communication channels for multi-gigabit serial interfaces. The cores contain both deserializer and serializer circuitry and are fully supported by LSI Logic's CoreWare program, enabling them to be easily integrated with an extensive library of pre-designed and pre-verified cores, along with customer designed logic. The CoreWare program reduces development time and overall system cost while increasing system performance and reliability. Customer designs with the GigaBlaze G12 0.18-micron transceiver core are already underway.
About SureConnex(TM)
The GigaBlaze transceiver cores are the flagship products of LSI Logic's SureConnex family of communications interfaces. Also included in the SureConnex family are the SpeedBlazer(TM) standard product transceivers, DDR SDRAM, Rambus RAC, PCI-X, SCSI, USB, 1394, HyperPHY(TM) cores and more than 120 ASIC interfaces. These interfaces can be integrated in system-on-a-chip designs to boost the bandwidth between systems, between boards within a system, and among chips on a board, to improve access and delivery of data.
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