RapidIOŽ Connections - Q2 2007


European, North American, and Asian Global RapidIO Design Summits Scheduled for Fall 2007

The RapidIO® Trade Association announced its Fall 2007 Global RapidIO Design Summit schedule, with events slated for Europe, North America and Asia. These highly anticipated events provide engineering managers, system architects, and embedded product developers with practical information on RapidIO technology and products they can utilize now in their production products.

"These summits, developed specifically to illustrate how the embedded design community can achieve improved system performance and reliability with the high-speed, flexible RapidIO interconnect and fabric, are among the most highly attended RapidIO design events held each year," said Keith Woodard, chairman of the RapidIO Trade Association Customer Programs sub-committee. "The member companies of the Trade Association are dramatically expanding the presentations and hardware demonstrations this year, with a focus on practical designs and implementations using RapidIO interconnect technology."

  • Munich, Germany Monday, 17 September 2007

  • Paris, France Thursday, 20 September 2007

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States Thursday, 04 October 2007

  • Seoul, Korea Monday, 05 November 2007

  • Shanghai, People's Republic of China Wednesday, 07 November 2007

  • Shenzhen, People's Republic of China Friday, 09 November 2007

  • Hyderabad or Chennai, India Tuesday, 13 November 2007

  • Bangalore, India Thursday, 15 November 2007

The free, full-day events include two tracks of technical sessions highlighting RapidIO technology, applications examples, software considerations, practical design recommendations, and RapidIO products. In addition, a technology lab will feature multi-vendor RapidIO interoperability demonstrations using state-of-the-art RapidIO products from multiple vendors. Technical personnel from Trade Association member companies will provide a unique opportunity for attendees to interact directly with RapidIO technology experts and get their specific questions answered. A complimentary light breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided.

Additional details can be found on www.RapidIO.org. Dates of these events are subject to change, and interested attendees are asked to check the web site often for location and agenda information.

Hosted by the RapidIO Trade Association, the 2007 Global Design Summit presentations and demonstrations are supplied by the Trade Association member companies.


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