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PLDA and GUC With PCIe Controller and PHY Combination

Optimized for storage applications

PLDA, in PCIe IP solutions, and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), in ASIC, announced a combined PCIe Gen 3 Controller IP and PHY IP solution, optimized for the needs of the storage market.

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The combined PCIe 3.0 controller/PHY solution is in initial production and has been incorporated into a demo board.

Within the growing storage and SSD market, customers are focused on reducing power consumption and maintaining data integrity while increasing performance. The combined PLDA and GUC solution provides an integrated and silicon-proven solution for PCIe Gen3 with all the features required for storage applications including support for features like enhanced end to end data protection (with LCRC, ECRC, ECC, Parity and CRC), SRIS (Separate Reference Independent SSC) and L1 PM Substates.

The PLDA XpressRICH3 IP is a performance, low latency, highly-configurable PCIe 3.0 soft IP supporting endpoint, root port, switch and bridge configurations. In addition, The PLDA IP provides features such as SR-IOV, multi-function, multi-VC, ATC, TPH, PASID, ECRC, AER, and more and is compliant to the PCIe rev.3.0 specification. PLDA’s PCIe 3.0 IP is also available with the industry-standard AMBA AXI4 interface under the version XpressRICH3-AXIhttp://www.plda.com/products/asic-ip/pcie-30/xpressrich3-axi.

GUC’s PCIe Gen 3 PHY is designed to support the needs of the storage market. Based on GUC’s proven high-speed SERDES technology, the performance of GUCs PCIe Gen 3 PHY exceeds PCIe Base Specification rev.3.0 while being BASE and CEM spec compliant, with support for features like SRIS (Separate Reference Independent SSC) and L1 PM Substates for storage applications.

In order to provide a more complete overview of PCIe and its benefits for storage applications, PLDA has produced a white paper, titled “Conquering the challenges of PCIe and NVMe and launching the most competitive Enterprise PCI SSD”http://www.plda.com/conquering-challenges-pcie-nvme-order-deliver-highly-competitive-enterprise-pcie-ssd. It provides an in-depth, technical view of why PCIe is an advantage to designers in storage and SSD.

PLDA XpressRICH3 IP is available from PLDA. The PHY IP is available from GUC.

Evaluation boards with a single chip with PLDA’s PCIe 3.0 Controller and GUC’s PCIe 3.0 PHY combination are available for review.

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