RapidIO |
RapidIO is an open-standard, switched fabric designed by the leaders in embedded computing specifically for developers of wireless infrastructure, edge networking, storage, scientific, military and industrial equipment. RapidIO technology delivers the reliability, cost effectiveness, performance and scalability required for these application areas — as well as offers a broad ecosystem of over 100 partners and suppliers, with products and solutions available for your designs today.
In addition, the RapidIO standard roadmap is well attuned to the changes affecting embedded system designs, ensuring RapidIO technology will meet your future system needs.
The RapidIO Interconnect Architecture, designed to be compatible with the most popular integrated communications processors, host processors, and networking digital signal processors, is a high-performance, packet-switched, interconnect technology. It addresses the high-performance embedded industry’s need for reliability, increased bandwidth, and faster bus speeds in an intra-system interconnect. The RapidIO interconnect allows chip-to-chip and board-to-board communications at performance levels scaling from 1 Gigabit per second per link to as much as 80 Gbps. RapidIO is now over 10 years old and is supported by the leading semiconductor companies worldwide and has a wide, installed base of production systems in a variety of applications.
RapidIO Interconnect Benefits:
- Embedded interconnect optimized by the embedded community for the embedded community,
- Ideal for true networking peer-to-peer clusters of embedded processors,
- Every endpoint manages its own memory system,
- Wide ecosystem of microprocessors, FPGAs, DSPs, switches , OEM ASICs, boards and software support,
- Lowest latency switches in industry,
- Ideal for distributed computing systems with backplane oriented architectures,
- 3-layer protocol terminated in hardware, freeing up processor cycles for implementing applications, and
- Support reliable transmission.
So-Logic currently offers the following IP cores that comply with the RapidIO Specification Revision 2.2: