Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt)– MontaVista Software Inc. today announced its membership in and sponsorship of the RapidIO Trade Association. MontaVista is the first Linux supplier and the first open source vendor to join the 50+ member RapidIO organization, which establishes and promotes RapidIO as an open standard for embedded networking and communications applications.

RapidIO is an embedded, processor-interconnect technology with support for both distributed multiprocessing and high-performance inter-device messaging — technologies poised to transform the way that embedded systems are built.

According to the RapidIO FAQ, “The RapidIO interconnect is primarily targeted at the networking market. Unlike other contemporary computer-centric interconnects, the RapidIO technology addresses the networking industry's needs for software transparency, greater reliability, and higher bandwidth in an 'in-the-box interconnect.' The RapidIO interconnect provides higher bus speeds that allow chip-to-chip and board-to-board communications at performance levels scaling greater than ten gigabits per second.”

MontaVista Software expects to see design wins with RapidIO in a variety of networking client devices, especially associated with the recently announced MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition, which is targeted at highly available, high performance telecommunications and networking infrastructure applications.

 
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