Product category: CompactPCI Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: IDT | Subject: PCI Express-based system-interconnect card
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 March 2007
PCI Express system interconnect card
A PCI Express-based (PCIe) system-interconnect card manages all communications throughout a system while providing full-line rate throughput, reliability and high quality of service
IDT has brought out a PCI Express-based (PCIe) system-interconnect product which predictably and efficiently manages all communications throughout a system while providing full-line rate throughput, reliability and high quality of service. The new devices are optimised to meet the capacity, scalability and predictable throughput requirements demanded by bladed system providers for consistent high performance and flexible system resource sharing.
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This robust product - which includes the industry's first 64-lane and 16-port device - enables equipment providers to use PCIe as the primary high performance system interconnect for demanding server, storage, communications and embedded applications.
The seven new PCIe switches broaden the existing IDT family of PCIe systems to a total 17.
Three of the new devices are PCIe-based system interconnect switches that manage communications between roots and intelligent endpoints throughout a bladed system.
Ranging from an 8-port, 32-lane configuration on the low end to the industry's largest monolithic PCIe switch with 16 ports and 64 lanes, the IDT switches offer high levels of switching capacity and system scalability and provide predictable, full-line rate performance for multiple simultaneous traffic flows regardless of system loading.
The remaining four devices are new interdomain PCI Express switches.
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This new class of switching products consists of both two- and three-port devices that support address translation and non-transparent bridging between PCI Express domains.
The IDT system interconnect product surpasses simple peer-to-peer switching by offering robust support for communication between multiple roots and providing constructs for I/O virtualisation and sharing that exploit today's PCI Express processors and endpoints.
Like other established IDT PCIe solutions, these devices have been optimised for low power.
In fact, this family offers the lowest power consumption per port of any PCIe system switching product available, enabling scalable and increasingly dense bladed system architectures and reducing the total cost of ownership by significantly minimising system thermal-management requirements.
All of the new switches have a dedicated evaluation and development kit for device testing and analysis, and system emulation.
Each kit consists of a hardware development board with representative upstream and downstream connectivity, and an IDT-developed, GUI-based software environment that enables the designer to tune system and device configurations to meet system requirements.
Moreover, to ensure that each OEM system design is optimised for production and meets its time to market objectives, IDT provides customers with extensive, collaborative technical support, including system modelling and signal integrity analyses, and schematic and layout review services.
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