Synergy Microsystems announced today that their new switched-fabric interconnect PMC module can sustain aggregate data rates of 1.2 gigabytes/second, based on six streams of full-duplex data transfer at 400 megabytes/second.

Switched-fabric technologies can be used to replace traditional bus-oriented systems by multiple computing nodes connected via high-speed switched networks, or as an interconnection among bus-based platforms. This enables “next generation clustered-computing platforms for DSP and other multiprocessor applications,” the company said.

Synergy's new “PSTN Interconnect PMC” module implements StarFabric, a switched-fabric technology that is owned and licensed by the StarFabric Trade Association. The module's onboard StarGen “StarFabric SG2010” interface chip supports cable lengths of up to 40 feet.

According to Synergy, the new switched-fabric PMC module's 1.2GB/sec maximum data transfer rate amounts to “16 times that of standard 80 MB/sec VME buses, and four times that of the 320 MB/sec proposed by the 'VME Renaissance' initiative.”

Synergy supports the module with a network driver software package for Linux, VxWorks, and Integrity operating systems. The support software is described as simplifying the task of incorporating switched-fabric interconnects into systems, as well as of implementing the associated memory management and interprocessor communications.

 
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