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News Release from: Pericom Semiconductor Corp | Subject: PI2EQX5804 and PI2EQX5864
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2008
Express conditioners clean up backplane
comms
Enable platform designers to solve the challenges faced when clocking and routing difficult-to-design 5Gbit/s serial high-speed signals inside the chassis.
Pericom Semiconductor is claiming two industry firsts for its PCI Express Gen2 (PCIeG2 5Gbit/s) timing and ReDriver signal conditioning product families aimed primarily at next generation computing and communications platforms Both families are specifically designed to comply with the latest PCIeG2 5Gbit/s specification which is experiencing rapid adoption by next generation server, PC, storage and telecommunications platforms
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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These new products enable platform designers to solve the challenges faced when clocking and routing difficult-to-design 5Gbit/s serial high-speed signals inside the chassis, and allow signals to be extended outside the chassis.
"PCIeG2 is expected to be broadly adopted in computing platforms", says Jag Bolaria, Senior Analyst at semiconductor market research firm The Linley Group.
"The increase in datarate, however, could present significant design challenges".
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"Pericom's signal conditioning and timing chips enable OEMs to confidently design systems using PCIeG2".
The first family of PCIeG2-specific signal conditioning products in the industry, the PI2EQX5804 and PI2EQX5864 PCIeG2 ReDriver conditioners are specifically designed to ensure signal quality of PCIe protocol serial signals over extended FR4 traces, through multiple connectors, and/or blade-to-blade across the back or mid-plane.
The family also features a mux/demux with ReDriver capability for routing signals across even longer FR4 trace lengths to different locations on the PCB board.
"Driven by Gen2 CPU chipset introductions and design activities at our Tier 1 desktop, notebook, and server customers, shipments of PCIeG2 capable systems are expected to grow from about 10% of total systems in 2008, to over 50% in 2009", says Shaf Rahman, Pericom's Senior Director of Switch and Interface Products.
"However, that growth rate is coupled to a serious technology challenge".
"Since signal degradation takes place at a much faster rate when speeds are higher, useable trace length shrinks rapidly".
"Customers now view Pericom ReDriver technology as essential to enabling their platform operation and reliability".
The first family of PCIeG2 specific timing sources in the industry, the low-phase-jitter SH Series HCSL oscillators are specifically designed to meet the stringent 3.1ps RMS phase jitter requirements of the PCIeG2 protocol.
"Platform designers implementing PCIeG2 are faced with complex timing issues such as precision timing source, quality signal replication, and jitter budget", says Kay Annamalai, Pericom's Senior Director of Timing Products.
"Pericom provides a complete PCIeG2 timing solution with a combination of our new SH series very low jitter crystal oscillators and our previously introduced PCIeG2 multi-output clock buffer family".
"We are uniquely positioned with both quartz- and silicon-based timing technologies, and our complete solution utilises both to provide the best match in performance, sise, and power savings for PCIeG2 applications".
The PI2EQX5804 and PI2EQX5864 are available now in production quantities and are offered in Pb-free and Green packaging.
10,000-unit OEM pricing is US $7.55 for PI2EQX5804 and US $7.25 for PI2EQX5864.
The SH Series crystal oscillator family is available now and offered in Pb-free and green packaging.
Pricing ranges from US $2.5 to $4 depending on the volume.
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