Brian Holden

Specific bus types including common older standards such as ISA, EISA, PCI and PCI-X, and newer standards such as HyperTransport, PCI Express and RIO will be discussed. Example implementations will be presented to better illustrate the form and function of the newer buses.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Brian Holden, a Principal Engineer in the Microprocessor Products Division at
PMC-Sierra, is involved in the development and standardization of processor busses.

Mr. Holden is currently the Technical Chair of the HyperTransport Consortium and serves on the board of the Network Processing Forum. He has contributed to about 20 standards efforts at six different standards bodies. Mr. Holden is the author of more than 40 technical papers, currently holds 17 U.S. patents and was involved in the invention of CRC-based framing, which is used in many communications protocols.

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Drives

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• 90% reduction in power
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• 50% reduction in hardware costs

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