Transcript RapidIO Futures - Ecma International

RapidIO Overview
October 2002
RapidIO Steering and Sponsoring Member Companies
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Member Company Categories
CPUs, DSPs, NPUs
System Logic & IP
Analog Devices
IBM
IDT
Intel
Intrinsity
Motorola
Texas Instruments
Cadence
Cypress Semi
Emulex
Hifn
IC4IC Ltd.
Leopard Logic
LSI Logic
Marvell
Mindstream
National Semi
RedSwitch
PLX
PMC Sierra
Silicon Logic Eng
Stargen
Tundra
FPGA
Actel
Altera
Xilinx
Quicklogic
Software
Design Tools
MontaVista
Cadence
OSE Systems Synopsys
QNX
WindRiver
Test Equipment
Agilent
Tektronix
Teradyne
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System OEMs
Alcatel
Cisco Systems
DY4/Force
EMC
Ericsson
Huawei Technologies
Lucent
Mercury Computer
Nokia
Raytheon
Rydal Research
SKY Computer
Spectrum Signal Processing
Systran
Tek Microsystems
Thales Computers
Vivace Networks
VMETRO
What is RapidIO?
• Packet-based memory-mapped switched
interconnect architecture for in-system
communications
– Also supports device-level messaging
– Also supports cc-NUMA (Globally Shared
Memory)
– LVDS Parallel interface for processors
– SerDes Serial interface for DSP, Serial Backplane
applications
– High reliability
– Open Standard
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Common Networking Topology
Serial RapidIO Data Path Fabric
RapidIO Fabric
Control Plane
Host Card
DSP
Line Card
RapidIO
Fabric
Host
uP
Traffic
Aggregation
DSP
DSP
DSP
DSP
DSP
DSP
DSP
DSP
DSP
Host uP
MEMy
Host uP
MEM
MEM
Ethernet
Host uP
RapidIO
ASIC
NPU
MEM
Physical
Layer
Interface
Ethernet / IP
ATM / SONET
Infiniband / Fibrechannel
Data
Control
TDM Voice Traffic
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Supported Application Classes
• Processor Local Bus
• Processor Clustering
– Coherent and Non-Coherent
• DSP Farm
• Serial Backplane
These applications are supported by the current specs
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Protocol Enhancements
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Virtual Channels
Packet/Cell Encapsulation
Flow Control
Multicast
Relaxed Acknowledgement Rules
Possible enhancements to RapidIO that are currently under consideration
These enhancements are designed to make RapidIO more suitable as a dataplane technology for embedded systems
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Supporting Technologies/Standards
• System Bringup APIs
– Software APIs for booting and configuring
systems
• HIP Platform Specification
– Hardware interoperability evaluation board
• Error Management Specification
– Hardware and Software specs for the
handling of errors detected by RapidIO in a
system
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Mechanical Standards
• Mezzanine Card
– Work going on the extend PMC card
standard to support RapidIO
• RapidIO on cPCI 2.x
– Taskgroup working to produce standard for
mapping of Serial RapidIO in CompactPCI
2.x chassis
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