Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Pericom Semiconductor Corp | Subject: PI7C9X20404GP etc
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 April 2007
Packet switches promise green performance
PCI Express packet switch ICs suit power-, size- and value-sensitive applications
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Pericom Semiconductor has a new PCI Express packet switch product family designed for power, size and value sensitive applications, such as volume motherboard/workstation, docking stations, networking control planes, video, graphics and embedded applications and mobile applications. Pericom has been displaying these new devices at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.
'Pericom is pleased to add three new advanced performance GreenPacket switches to our variety of PCI Express products', said Bill Weir, Pericom's Senior Marketing Director of Connect Products.
'We are actively engaged with volume market segment customers who recognise that the size, power, and cost benefits of this product family allow them to fully leverage CPU chipset I/O expansion in new platform designs'.
The GreenPacket packet switch family consists of three different port- and lane-count configurations: a four-port/four-lane device (PI7C9X20404GP), a five-port/five-lane device (PI7C9X20505GP), and a five-port/eight-lane device (PI7C9X20508GP).
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The product family is specifically designed for low power consumption and small package sise, optimised PCB layout, and fully meets the requirements of the latest PCI-SIG PCIe 1.1 and PCI 1.2 specifications.
Unique features include special low-power and power-down modes, RoHS compliant packages, and small footprint.
The PI7C9X20404GP is the industry's smallest packet switch at 12 x 12mm.
PI7C9X20505GP and PI7C9X20508GP samples and customer evaluation platforms are available now, with production ramp up in May.
The PI7C9X20404GP will be available for customer sampling in May, with production in June.
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