PR: GDA Technologies to Offer the Industry's First Complete Set of Advanced Swi

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GDA Technologies to Offer the Industry's First Complete Set
of Advanced Switching IP Cores

The Advanced Switching IP Cores Strengthens GDA's PCI
Express Product Family

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 17, 2004 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a
fast-growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and
Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it
will be offering a comprehensive set of Advanced Switching
(AS) IP cores for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. The IP
offerings include MAC, Data Link, and Transaction layers and
all the defined Protocol Interfaces: SLS, SQ, SDT and PI-8.
In addition, GDA provides complete suite of FPGA, boards and
software design services for AS-based products. Addition of
these AS modules significantly strengthens GDA's PCI Express
(GPEX) IP family. These IPs target Native AS end point
controllers, leaf and root bridges, AS switches and dual
mode PCI Express Base/AS interface controllers. By using
GDA's reusable Advanced Switching IP cores and its related
AS services system designers can greatly reduce development
risks and time to market for their next-generation products.

"The ASI SIG has seen strong interest from leading companies
to develop the building-block components required for the
communications industry to transition from proprietary
switched interconnects and data fabrics to the
standards-based Advanced Switching switched interconnects,"
said Rajeev Kumar, President, ASI SIG and Advanced Switching
Initiatives manager at Intel. "We expect availability of key
enabling tools such as IP cores, such as those from GDA,
verification IP, FPGAs and silicon starting in 2004 to
enable the roll-out of full systems by the end of 2005."

The Advanced Switching specification is an extension of PCI
Express* interconnect technology. It adds advanced
communications features to PCI Express technology in order
to meet the requirements of the next generation of
networking, storage and communications solutions.

"We are dedicated to creating IP solutions with the highest
quality," said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business
at GDA Technologies Inc. "Our GPEX IP family, a
comprehensive portfolio of Advanced Switching and PCI
Express IP cores, give our customers complete confidence
that their next-generation products will be compliant to the
specifications and interoperable with other AS and PCI
Express solutions, while maintaining an aggressive
time-to-market schedule."

GDA is a member of the ASI SIG, Intel(R) Developer Network
for PCI Express Architecture, PCISIG, and PICMG.

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

The Advanced Switching IP cores will be available in Q4,
2004. The GDA PCI Express (GPEX) IP core, AS MAC and Data
Link Layers are available now. For more information please
email at ip@gdatech.com, or visit www.gdatech.com.

About GDA Technologies

GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company
with high-value IP, value-added design services and flexible
engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and
consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many
high performance IP cores for compute, and networking
interfaces including HyperTransport, PCI-Express, 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing
systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, and FPGAs, concept to product.
It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas
of high-speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video
applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking
applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is
headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design
centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and
Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is
http://www.gdatech.com.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of
others.

For more information, contact:

Deepika Sarai
GDA Technologies, Inc.
(408) 467 3514
deepika@gdatech.com

SOURCE GDA Technologies, Inc. 

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