PLDA XpressSWITCH IP Pass Gold and Interoperability Tests at PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop 115

PLDA SAS announced that its XpressSWITCH IP is the first switch Soft IP (SIP) to pass all gold and interoperability tests at the PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop 115, held online in October 2020.

The testing was conducted using XpressSWITCH IP for the PCIe 4.0 spec, running on a FPGA based add-in card with both upstream and downstream ports operating at 16GT/s.

PCI-SIG is the community responsible for developing and maintaining the standardized approach to peripheral component I/O data transfers.

Their Compliance Workshops offer members the opportunity to test and validate their products before they enter the field. Testing is completed vs. PCI-SIG maintained systems, as well as other manufacturers of PCIe technology products. Achieving Compliance Certification during these workshops provides assurance to chip designers that the company’s XpressSWITCH IP meets the PCIe 4.0 spec requirements.

Chip and system vendors understand the value there is to differentiate at the silicon level, and the trend now is to integrate more of the traditionally discrete pieces inside the chip. In particular when looking at PCIe technology switching which has become ubiquitous, there are advantages in integrating that functionality:

• It reduces the number of discrete components, which decreases the BOM cost, reduces the number of points of failures, and simplify bring-up and debug

• It reduces power consumption by having fewer off-chip multi-gigabit links

• It reduces system latency

• It enables support for the latest PCIe specs and ECNs therefore extending the lifespan of the SoC

• It allows for easier scaling given the configurable nature of the IP

According to Stephane Hauradou, CTO, PLDA, “successful completion of the PCI-SIG compliance testing at PCIe 4.0 architecture speeds for its XpressSWITCH IP is an important accomplishment for PLDA. We have long been at the forefront of the embedded PCIe Technology Switch offering, and are proud of our track record of silicon-proven PCIe 4.0 spec implementations. The achievement of compliance testing from PCI-SIG demonstrates the maturity of our XpressSWITCH IP.“

“We’re pleased PLDA achieved PCIe 4.0 compliance testing with its XpressSWITCH Controller IP,” said Al Yanes, president and chairman, PCI-SIG. “PLDA’s PCIe 4.0 compliant products facilitate interoperability, which contributes to the continued success of the PCIe spec.”

Readers can check out XpressSWITCH for PCIe 4.0 technology entry on the PCI-SIG Integrators List.

Resource:
Information on PLDA switch IP solutions

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September 19, 2019 | Press Release