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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: FPGA PCI Express solution
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 November 2004
PCI Express IP solution approved for
FPGA use
Altera Corp and PLDApplications (PLDA) have released the market's first complete PCI-SIG tested FPGA PCI Express solution.
Altera Corp and PLDApplications (PLDA) have released the market's first complete PCI-SIG tested FPGA PCI Express solution, which will be added to the official PCI-SIG PCI Express Integrators List "This is an important milestone for the adoption of PCI Express into embedded applications", said Craig Lytle, Vice President of Solution Engineering at Altera
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Designers looking for PCI Express now have an FPGA-optimised solution from PLDA, the top independent PCI and PCI-X FPGA IP vendor worldwide for the last four years".
At the September PCI-SIG compliance workshop, Altera's Stratix GX FPGA device family and the PLDA PCI Express IP Core passed all of the PCI-SIG PCI Express compliance tests.
Administered by PCI-SIG, these are a rigorous suite of tests of the electrical, data link, and transaction layers of the protocol, combined with interoperability testing in 15 real-world systems.
"PLDA is very pleased to partner with Altera, who continues to demonstrate the best FPGA device support for PCI Express", said Arnaud Schleich, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for PLDA.
"During the PCI-SIG electrical test, which tested the Stratix GX serdes, the generated eye patterns demonstrated the best margin seen during the entire week's testing".
The PLDA PCI Express IP Core is available for licence today.
A multiproject, royalty-free, perpetual FPGA PCI Express x4 IP licence, including 12 months of technical support and upgrades, is priced at $24,990.
For more details, visit www.plda.com.
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