PCI-SIG, the Special Interest Group responsible for PCI Express® (PCIe®) industry-standard I/O technology, announced today that it will offer free registration to PCI-SIG members attending its Developers Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. July 15-16. The PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2009 is designed to provide comprehensive training to its members on all aspects of PCI technology. Attendees at PCI-SIG Developer Conferences typically include system architects, designers, engineers and engineering managers working with PCI technology.

“We recognize that the current economic situation is impacting travel and event budgets in a way that could make it more difficult for our members to attend the Developers Conference,” said PCI-SIG chairman and president Al Yanes. “We want to help facilitate our membership’s attendance at this significant event to learn about the very latest in PCI technologies and to network with their colleagues and clients.”

Topics to be covered at this year’s event include PCI-SIG specifications such as I/O Virtualization and the latest drafts of PCIe 3.0, which doubles the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 and provides optimizations for enhanced signaling and data integrity. Additionally, presenters will discuss industry best practices regarding subjects relating to PCI technologies like power management, verification and compliance.

The free registration offer applies only to the July 2009 event in Santa Clara and does not affect future PCI-SIG events. This year’s annual U.S. Developers Conference will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The PCI-SIG Developers Conference is limited to members of PCI-SIG. More information about the event, attendee registration and how to become a member can be found at: www.pcisig.com

Benefits of PCI-SIG Membership

PCI-SIG members can participate in the review of all PCI specifications before they are released to the industry. If you are interested in becoming a member, please visit the PCI-SIG Web site at www.pcisig.com/membership. PCI-SIG members develop and maintain PCI Express specifications and are actively involved in defining compliance criteria and other technical enabling collateral.

As an additional and extremely valuable benefit of PCI-SIG membership, members are given the right to receive patent licenses from any other member of our organization with necessary claims of patent embodied within our specifications. These licenses may be limited in scope to an implementation of a particular specification, but must be granted to all members on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

About PCI-SIG

PCI-SIG is the Special Interest Group that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines and implements new industry standard I/O (Input/Output) specifications as the industry’s local I/O needs evolve. The PCI Special Interest Group was formed in 1992 and became a nonprofit corporation, named “PCI-SIG,” in the year 2000. Currently, more than 900 industry-leading companies are active PCI-SIG members worldwide. PCI-SIG’s current directors are employed by the following PCI-SIG member companies: Agilent, AMD, Broadcom, HP, IBM, Intel, Dell, NVIDIA and Sun Microsystems. For more information about the PCI-SIG and its membership benefits, please visit the PCI-SIG Web site at http://www.pcisig.com or contact (503) 619-0569 (within the United States).

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