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News Release from: Altera Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2007
Demonstrations showcase PCIe 2.0
compliance
At DesignCon Altera Corp is demonstrating support for the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification, as well as showing PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 signals on cables and backplanes, with its Stratix II GX FPGAs.
At DesignCon Altera Corp is demonstrating support for the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification, as well as showing PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 signals on cables and backplanes, with its Stratix II GX FPGAs With up to 20 low-power transceivers, Stratix II GX family is the only high-density production FPGA capable of delivering 100Gbit/s of aggregate bandwidth on FR-4 circuit boards and backplanes up to 1m in length, using the new 5-GT/s PCIe 2.0 specification from PCI-SIG
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Altera demonstrations showcase 5-GT/s PCIe 2.0 compliance using the Stratix II GX-based PLDA XpressGXII prototyping board.
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In another demonstration, Stratix II GX FPGAs reliably transmit data over an unprecedented 30m of PCI Express cable at the PCIe 1.1 and 2.0 rate of 2.5Gbit/s, and on 1m of FR-4 backplane at the PCIe 2.0 rate of 5Gbit/s.
The unrivalled level of signal integrity performance, margin and robustness is made possible by exploiting the advanced channel-loss compensating features of Stratix II GX low-power transceivers, and by using on-chip voltage regulators to provide noise immunity.
Molex is demonstrating 5Gbit/s PCIe 2.0 capability using Stratix II GX transceivers over 15m of iPass PCIe cable and on 1m of I-Trac backplane.
"Our first-mover advantage is a result of working closely with a number of PCI-SIG members to aid in the development of the PCIe specifications", said David Greenfield, Senior Director of Product Marketing for high-end FPGAs at Altera.
"Furthermore, our partnership with PLDA during our companies' PCIe 2.0 development gives us the ability to provide PCIe 2.0 IP targeted to the only PCIe 2.0- and PCIe 1.1-capable FPGAs in production today - the Stratix II GX family".
The PCIe 2.0 demonstration builds on the PCIe solutions already developed by Altera and PLDA.
The PLDA XpressGXII prototyping board includes PLDA's PCI Express intellectual property (IP) core, IP configuration software, and the corresponding test-bench and reference designs for x1, x2, x4 and x8 endpoint applications.
PLDA XpressGXII includes everything needed to jumpstart and validate any PCIe application, and is ready for PCIe 2.0.
Altera's PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition, includes a comprehensive solution to quickly evaluate and validate the functionality of Altera's PCIe solutions.
The Stratix II GX-based PCIe board included in the kit can be used as an x1, x4 or x8 PCIe add-in card for prototype development with PCIe motherboards.
It can also be used as a stand-alone card, offering flexibility to support several high-speed protocols including gigabit Ethernet, 10-gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, and x1 or x4 Serial RapidIO interconnects.
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