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RapidIO Trade Association Announces Details of August 2006, Boston Global RapidIO Design Summit

Eco-system members join to present the latest products, application and standard developments in an informative, easy-to-join forum.

Engineering managers, system architects, and embedded product developers are invited to attend the RapidIO Trade Association’s Boston Global RapidIO Design Summit to be held August 17th, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Woburn Plaza Hotel. The Summit will provide valuable information on RapidIO technology and products and include working demonstrations in the technology lab. Sessions, application papers and design tips will be presented by RapidIO Trade Association members including Fabric Embedded Tools Corporation (FET), Freescale Semiconductor, FuturePlus Systems, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), Jennic, Mercury Computer Systems, Texas Instruments, Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, and Xilinx.

“This extraordinary Design Summit is structured to aid the embedded design community in learning how to get better system performance, reliability and support for convergence by using the high-speed, flexible RapidIO interconnect and fabric,” said Tom Cox, executive director of the RapidIO Trade Association.

The free, full-day event includes a track of technical sessions highlighting RapidIO technology, interconnect comparisons, software considerations, RapidIO and distributed processing, wireless application design, and RapidIO products. In addition, a technology lab will feature multi-vendor RapidIO interoperability demonstrations using state-of-the-art RapidIO products. Complimentary light breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided.

All attendees will be entered in prize drawings for copies of RapidIO: The Next Generation Communication Fabric for Embedded Application, the definitive reference book (one for every 20 registered attendees) and the grand prize of an iPod nano. Attendees must be present to win. For general questions and more information, contact Sue Leininger, 512.305.0070. For registration details visit www.RapidIO.org/events/design_summits_2006/designsummit2006/.

In addition to the Boston event, Global RapidIO Design Summits have been scheduled throughout Asia-Pacific this Fall. Details can be found on www.RapidIO.org.

Hosted by the RapidIO Trade Association, the 2006 Global RapidIO Design Summits are sponsored by Altera, AMCC, EMC, ENEA, Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor, Lucent Technologies, Mercury Computer Systems, Micro Memory, MontaVista, PMC-Sierra, Rydal, Texas Instruments, Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, Wind River, and Xilinx.


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