"We chose the Rambus PCI Express end point core, because it was the most advanced core available on the market," said Amit Vashi, senior director product marketing for QLogic Corporation. "Our engineers have given two thumbs up for the integration support that they received from the Rambus team."

QLogic provides OEMs, resellers and system integrators with end-to-end SAN infrastructure solutions. The company produces the controller chips, host bus adapters, fabric switches and management software that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. QLogic serves customers with solutions based on all storage network technologies including SCSI, Internet SCSI (iSCSI), and Fibre Channel.

Rambus PCI Express digital controllers are highly configurable cores, available in end point, root complex, switch port, and hybrid (root complex and end point) configurations. The architecture is tailored to optimize link utilization, latency, power consumption and silicon footprint. The Verilog cores are delivered with a complete test environment, test cases and synthesis environment for maximum ease of integration.