GDA Technologies Introduces Highly Configurable PCI Express * Controller IP Core

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Jose, California – September 16, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the GPEX, GDA PCI Express IP core, providing the computing, networking, and communications industries a significant enabler for development of silicon based products supporting PCI Express architecture. The GPEX is a rich featured and highly flexible core supporting endpoint, root complex, switch, and bridge applications. GPEX’s architecture is carefully tailored to optimize link utilization, latency, reliability, power consumption, and silicon footprint for both ASIC and FPGA implementations.

“We are committed to providing our customers cost-effective, compliant and interoperable PCI Express IP products," said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. "Our extensive experience in developing high performance IP cores for compute and networking interfaces has played a significant role in creating GPEX which delivers unprecedented performance, configurability, and scalability features to a wide variety of applications.”

"Wide availability of PCI Express IP from companies like GDA promotes faster time-to-market for companies developing PCI Express components,” said David Formisano, Ecosystem Initiatives Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Group at Intel. “This enables companies to migrate products to PCI Express more rapidly than was possible with previous technology transitions.”

The GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface with an optional DMA controller. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules.

GDA will be participating at IDF Fall 2003, September 16-18 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.

GDA Technologies is an Affiliate Member with the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica.

Price and Availability

For pricing and detailed information on GPEX and the IP validation platform, please email at ip@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 markets. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's 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.

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