RapidIO® Connections - Q2 2006Association NewsRapidIO® Hardware Everywhere!By Tom Cox, Executive Director, RapidIO Trade Association
Everywhere I travel I see RapidIO hardware! It’s like the experience you have when you get a new car – you start to see the exact same model and color on every street and in every city. Is it simply the trappings of the job or could it really be so? Check for yourself. I challenge every one of you to take the test. Look around as I believe you too, will see an abundance of RapidIO hardware, systems and software proliferating the embedded marketplace. Recently, I have been on the road traveling far and wide to semiconductor vendors, software developers, systems component manufactures and embedded equipment manufactures in the military and telecom industries. Labs are bustling with prototyping, testing and applications development of sometimes simple, but often complex systems using the RapidIO architecture. A common thread rings true; whether it’s two chips exchanging data or a massively scalable military communications intelligence application with hundreds of processors and thousands of high-speed inputs, RapidIO technology is solving the problem at hand. RapidIO components are in the labs and ready to do the job. Tradeshows and technology conferences abound with hardware demonstrations of RapidIO components and infrastructure. As vendors wind up their marketing efforts, product presentations and educational tracks permeate the embedded systems landscape. Questions of ‘What is RapidIO?’ have been replaced with inquiries on complex implementation details for applications in medical imaging and triple play video communications. I can no longer name all the vendors and their plethora of products and have succumbed to handing out lists of manufacturers and resources, too numerous to count on so few fingers and toes. The media, print, electronic and now audio, rings out with stories of RapidIO products; my phone is a-buzz with requests for interviews and contributions of technical dissertations. It is no wonder as this entire activity can easily be traced down to a simple but important fact. RapidIO hardware is everywhere, and engineers are tuned in, turned on and innovating a generation of new and exciting hardware solutions to a broad range of problems. RapidIO is an established, scalable, open-standard, switched fabric, designed by the leaders in embedded computing specifically for OEMs building equipment in the wireless infrastructure, edge networking, storage, scientific, military and industrial markets. RapidIO delivers the reliability, cost effectiveness, performance and scalability required in these markets. RapidIO also supports a roadmap which is attuned to the changes affecting designers of embedded infrastructure. As the Executive Director of the RapidIO Trade Association I challenge you to look, touch and take the test – you, too, will see that RapidIO is Everywhere! RapidIO Radio Hailed A Success; June Program To Feature
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