Parade Mass Producing PS8925 PCIe Gen 4 Retimer for Enterprise System Deployment

Parade Technologies, Ltd. announces the mass production of the PS8925 PCI Express Gen 4 retimer for enterprise system deployment.

The device has completed testing and validation in enterprise network and storage systems now entering production. The PS8925 is a 4-lane device within the company’s family of PCIe Gen 4 retimer IC products that support up to 16 bi-directional lanes using 32 high-speed data channels operating at 16Gb/s.

It is a PCIe Gen 4 retimer released to system production. It is also a bidirectional, 4-lane PCIe Gen 4 retimer that supports both single port (up to 1×4) and dual port (up to 2×2) operation. This provides support for variety of server grade, PCIe Gen 4 SSD cards entering the market that include both single or dual port system implementations.

“The doubling of the data rate from 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps innext gen enterprise systems, moving from PCIe Gen 3 to the new Gen 4, puts a heavy demand on signal integrity” says Jimmy Chiu, EVP, marketing. “Many interconnected server functions cannot reliably transport data at this speed over a typical point-to-point interface consisting of copper board traces, cables, and connectors. Our family of PCIe Gen 4 retimers are the first to market to address this problem. PCIe Gen 5, doubling the data rate at again to 32 Gbps, is our next focus.“

The PS8925 supports four bidirectional PCIe lanes using eight high-speed differential channels. In addition to supporting the 16Gb/s data rate offered by the PCIe 4.0 spec, the company’s family of PCIe Gen 4 retimers support 2.5Gb/s, 5Gb/s, and 8Gb/s for backward compatibility with earlier PCIe revisions. The firm’s PCIe retimers are designed for the longer reach data paths within server and storage systems, such as from the root complex to memory subsystem. They are typically applied midway along the data path to receive and retransmit data, in both directions, to accommodate both the increase in data rates and system design complexity.

The PS8925 is available for production. It is available in a 5.5x10mm 146-ball BGA package.

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Parade Roll Out PCIe 4.0 Retimer Chips
PS8925 and PS8926 developed for PCIe 4.0, supporting 4 and 16 bidirectional lanes respectively, in addition to 16Gb data rate offered by PCIe 4.0 spec.
November 1, 2019 | Press Release