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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: PCI Express IP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 May 2005
PCI Express IP core runs on Xilinx FPGAs
Mentor Graphics is the first third-party intellectual property (IP) vendor to achieve PCI Express specification compliance on the NitAl PExBuilder-X254 Platform.
Mentor Graphics is the first third-party intellectual property (IP) vendor to achieve PCI Express specification compliance on the NitAl PExBuilder-X254 Platform Compliance, which includes vigorous interoperability testing and validation, was achieved at the PCI-SIG Compliance Workshop held in February 2005
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This compliance enables designers to rapidly develop high-performance computing, storage and communications systems that support the PCI Express standard.
"Our goal is to build high quality development platforms that accelerate time to market", stated Nitin Sarangdhar, President NitAl.
"Mentor Graphics was able to smoothly port their design to our PExBuilder-X254 technology and provide an independent validation, proving that we can offer a stable PCI Express development environment to design engineers".
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NitAl PExBuilder hardware adapters are based on Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs to provide a complete development and prototyping environment for PCI Express-based designs.
The PExBuilder-X254 product features a hardware evaluation board based on the state-of-the-art Virtex-II Pro (2VP40) device and a host of functions that include 2 x4 lane PCI Express interfaces, 4Mbyte SRAM, 256Mbyte optional DRAM and 119-pin user I/O connector.
The platform supports standard PCI Express upstream and downstream connectors that allow end-users to develop and validate PCI Express endpoint/switch applications with other industry standard PCI express hardware such as motherboards, adapters and NitAl's PCI Express X4 Host emulator-device exerciser/analyser.
Mentor Graphics' IP core, based on the PCI Express architecture, fully complies with the PCI Express standard and provides the highest quality IP that minimises development risk and lowers overall system costs.
As a result, design engineers can focus on the differentiating aspects of their design and accelerate design time with highly configurable, reusable, low-cost IP building blocks to create innovative electronic systems.
Compliance of the PCI Express specification results from Mentor's long-term relationship with Xilinx "The PExBuilder-X254 from NitAl proved to be an ideal environment to confirm that Mentor IP is compliant with Xilinx technology", said Jimmy Awan, Director of Engineering, Mentor Graphics IP Division.
"Having a stable, high quality hardware environment was a key success factor in achieving first-pass compliance".
"We are thrilled to see that Mentor Graphics has achieved compliance on the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro platform", said Mike Frazier, Director of Engineering, IP Solutions at Xilinx.
"Our customers will benefit from the broad availability of Mentor Graphics IP solutions and from the confidence that when they build Xilinx-based products, they can achieve rapid success".
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