Bridge chip brings PCIe to embedded designs

The PEX 8311 is the industry's only bridging device dedicated to upgrading standard processor, DSP and FPGA bus interface designs to PCIe.

PLX Technology has announced the PEX 8311, the industry's only bridging device dedicated to upgrading standard processor, DSP and FPGA bus interface designs to PCIe.

The newest member of the PLX ExpressLane family of PCIe switches and bridges, the feature-rich PEX 8311 provides the power and flexibility of PCIe to embedded designs spanning the video, imaging, communications, and industrial-control markets.

The PEX 8311 provides an efficient conversion between a parallel, low-overhead local bus and the serial, packet-based PCIe interconnect, allowing users to add a scalable, high-bandwidth interconnect to a wide variety of root complex- or endpoint-base