Woking, Surrey-based Advanced Micro Devices (UK) Ltd has released a Fast Card evaluation board and software support for the company’s SuperNet chip set, which it claims is the first commercially available VLSI implementation of the American National Institute’s X3T9.5 Fibre Distributed Data Interface, FDDI, standard. Advanced Micro says that the plug-in Fast card converts an AT-alike into an operational FDDI node that can be networked with fibre optic cable to other FDDI nodes. The company’s SuperNet FDDI software includes a portable debugging program for SuperNet chip set-based systems.
