The PISMO(TM) Advisory Council Adds Agilent, Samtec and Mentor Graphics as New Members

The PISMO(TM) Advisory Council Adds Agilent, Samtec and Mentor Graphics as New
Members
Industry leaders provide expertise for next generation board interconnect
solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The PISMO(TM) Advisory
Council today announced that Agilent Technologies, Samtec and Mentor Graphics
have joined the group. PISMO is the industry's first organization focused on
streamlining system-level Flash memory validation and test. It is a global
collaboration of industry leaders defining and developing standards for board
level memory. The Council, founded by Spansion and ARM in 2004, now includes
18 member companies.
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"This group of new members demonstrates the expanding reach of the PISMO
ecosystem, and we are very excited by the capabilities and expertise they
bring to the PISMO industry consortium," said Rik Graulus, Senior Business
Development Manager at Spansion and Chairman of the PISMO Advisory Council.
"Agilent's extensive test, measurement and probing capabilities, combined with
Samtec's expertise in developing robust board interconnect solutions, with
access to Mentor's state-of-the-art simulation tools will be extremely
important for the next-generation PISMO specification aimed at supporting
memory devices operating at frequencies up to 533MHz. Higher operating
frequencies require designers to have access to more advanced tools to address
signal integrity and crosstalk, and require reliable probing solutions for
debugging, troubleshooting, testing and validating PISMO modules with high
speed devices."
Recent growth in the wireless and embedded markets has given rise to a
myriad of new processors, chipsets and memory types that must be tested for
compatibility. Without a standard interface, system designers must develop and
use a variety of device-specific development boards to ensure compatibility.
The PISMO standard is intended to address this challenge and the selection of
the right board interconnect solution is of paramount importance.
About the PISMO Advisory Council
The PISMO Advisory Council, spearheaded by Spansion and ARM, is the
industry's first organization focused on streamlining system-level memory test
and validation. The PISMO interface standard defines mechanical and electrical
specifications for small form factor memory modules. The PISMO(TM) modules are
stackable and supported by tools that provide easy access to signals for
performing in-depth analysis. These features and more make PISMO memory
modules ideal for validating and prototyping combinations of memory devices
with a variety of host controllers.
PISMO Advisory Council member companies include ARM, Agilent, Analog
Devices, Broadcom, Cypress, HARDI Electronics, Mentor Graphics, Micron,
NanoAmp Solutions, NEC, Qimonda, Samsung, Samtec, Sandisk (M-Systems), SMedia,
Spansion, Spreadtrum and Toshiba. For more information on PISMO products and
membership, please visit the PISMO Advisory Council Web site at
http://www.pismoworld.org.
About Spansion
Spansion is a leading Flash memory solutions provider, dedicated to
enabling, storing and protecting digital content in wireless, automotive,
networking and consumer electronics applications. Spansion, previously a joint
venture of AMD and Fujitsu, is the largest company in the world dedicated
exclusively to designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling
Flash memory solutions. For more information, visit http://www.spansion.com.
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used are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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SOURCE PISMO Advisory Council

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