Connectivity demo wins Intel show prize

A technology demonstration hosted by PLX Technology at last week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco has received the top technology and research award.

A technology demonstration hosted by PLX Technology at last week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco has received the top technology and research award.

The award-winning showcase of PLX ExpressLane PCIe switching and bridging devices in video applications, which also included the company's recently introduced USB Duet connectivity technology, was one of only six demonstrations recognised with best-in-category distinctions during IDF's Technology Innovation Accelerated (TIA) proceedings.

TIA award candidates were judged by IDF exhibitors, while the top winners were selected by journalists and industry analysts attending the conference.

"We're honoured to be recognised for the innovation that's gone into PLX interconnect technology and our demonstration of it at IDF", said David Raun, PLX Vice President of Marketing.

"This distinguished award reflects PLX's focus on delivering powerful, versatile PCI Express and USB silicon that manufacturers worldwide are designing into next-generation server, storage, communications, industrial-control, and consumer products".

PLX's TIA award-winning demonstration featured ExpressLane bridging technology in a video-surveillance application, with PLX's PEX 8111 PCIe-to-PCI bridge and Conexant Systems' video decoders managing eight separate simultaneous video feeds.

Blended into the demonstration's PC was the PLX PEX 8508 PCIe switch sending high-speed video over CAT7 cable, showing how ExpressLane switches can be implemented to expand PCIe's reach in new cabling schemes.

Additionally, the demonstration featured USB Duet - based on PLX's Hi-Speed USB 2.0 technology and which enables two or more PCs to share files and transfer disk drives' contents over USB at speeds up to 480Mbit/s - streaming video from an Ultra Mobile PC platform computer to a video card on the PCIe-equipped PC.

Intel's TIA Awards were established to recognise companies who incorporate Intel's latest technologies and adopt its new platform strategies.

The competitive awards program was open to all exhibitors and sponsors.

PLX's ExpressLane family features the broadest line of PCIe devices, with switches ranging from eight lanes and five ports to 48 lanes and nine ports.

Nine ExpressLane switches and bridges now are either sampling or in full production - more than all other vendors' PCIe-interconnect devices combined.

These PLX devices have been designed into hundreds of systems in virtually all technology market segments.

PLX High-Speed USB 2.0 controllers offer superior performance, strict compliance to industry standards and dramatic power savings.

The controllers are widely used in printers, portable media players, GPS systems, TV tuners, PCs, laptops, notebooks, WLAN devices, mobile phones, digital cameras, and camcorders.

PLX has been developing I/O interconnect solutions since 1986.

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