Avnet and Xilinx develop RapidIO interconnect - Off the Shelf - Brief Article

Electronic News, July 29, 2002 by Rob Spiegel

AVNET DESIGN SERVICES (ADS), THE DESIGN ARM OF Phoenix-based Avnet Inc., and Xilinx Inc. of San Jose have developed a kit for the RapidIO interconnect. The kit includes a PowerQUICC MPC857T processor from Motorola and a Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGA, which is designed to give designers the flexibility to develop systems based on RapidIO interconnect technology.

The goal is to accelerate the development cycle by as much as several months. "The RapidIO interface standard is rapidly gaining acceptance, and companies who want a time-to-market advantage over their competition will be able to use our new development kit to shave months of their design cycle," said Warren Miller, VP of marketing for ADS.