October 2007

New Industry Alliances for Interoperability and HyperTransport

In line with its objective to provide superior high speed programmable interface solutions, Lattice recently co-founded one forum and joined another.

Road to 100G Alliance

The Road to 100G Alliance was formally announced on June 19 at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Illinois. The founding members are Bay Microsystems, Enigma Semiconductor, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), IP Infusion (an Access Company), and Lattice Semiconductor.

The purpose of this non-profit entity is to provide seamless interoperability among the disparate, standards-based components required in building high capacity network elements, specifically in the 40G to 100G nodes.

We are looking for additional members to join from our user community to further the cause for developing an infrastructure of solutions to ease the R&D burden for component manaufacturers, OEMs, ODMs and service providers pariticpating in this arena.

Why join?

• Join market leaders and help create the ecosystem to deliver next generation networking solutions for 40G to 100G and beyond.
• Network Equipment Manufacturers and ODMs can accelerate the development of next generation networking platforms.
• Suppliers of hardware, software, intellectual property, and more can accelerate the adoption of next generation core technology components.
• Service providers and MSOs can accelerate the deployment of new revenue generating services and drive the design and development of platforms that will enable your next set of revenue generating services.
• Reduce your development and technical support costs for new product development by cooperating with other members.
• Increase the effectiveness of your marketing dollars; increase market awareness of your company’s activities in this segment and extend the reach and effectiveness of your promotion funds.
• Obtain access to a group of companies focused on a common goal.
• Network and partner with other members to create platforms that demonstrate comprehensive industry leading solutions.
• Improve your knowledge of emerging technologies and their potential impact.

HyperTransport Consortium

The HyperTransport Consortium is a membership-based, non-profit organization that manages, promotes and licenses HyperTransport Technology. The HyperTransport Consortium consists of over 40 industry-leading member companies and is open to any company interested in licensing the royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology and intellectual property.

Boasting the industry’s fastest implementation of HyperTransport technology in FPGA platforms to date and having previously characterized the HyperTransport I/O link to operate at rates up to 1.6 Gbps, Lattice recently joined the HyperTransport Consortium in order to take advantage of the broader solutions ecosystem available through this organization. This is an important step for Lattice as it develops its portfolio of HyperTransport-compliant silicon, boards and IP.

HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium in the U.S. and other jurisdictions.