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PLDA® Announces Gen4SWITCH™ - The Industry's First PCI Express 4.0 Platform Development Kit (PDK)PLDA, the industry leader in PCI (News - Alert) Express® interface IP solutions today announced the industry's first full PCIe 4.0 platform with the launch of the PLDA Gen4SWITCH. Early adopters of PCI Express 4.0 technology can view the demo of this new PCIe 4.0 platform at the PLDA booth, during PCI-SIG® DevCon to be held on June 28-29, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA (News - Alert). PLDA's Gen4SWITCH is a complete development platform based on PLDA's PCI-SIG certified XpressSWITCH IP and PLDA's XpressRICH4™ PCIe 4.0 controller IP running on a Xilinx (News - Alert)® Virtex® UltraScale™ FPGA. This new product provides the first PCIe 3.0-x8 (upstream) to PCIe 4.0-x4 (downstream) Integration Backplane. By working with the PLDA Gen4SWITCH, early developers of PCIe 4.0 technology can be among the first to test PCIe 4.0 architecture for Endpoint/PHY/boards with their own software, designs and boards in a real system. The PLDA Gen4SWITCH provides key benefits for PCIe designers, ASIC designers and the entire PCIe Ecosystem, enabling them to seamlessly test their PCIe 4.0 solutions by connecting their endpoint board to the PLDA Gen4SWITCH platform. This early release of a PCIe 4.0 platform is a chance for designers to reduce their time-to-market for the next-generation applications that will truly benefit from the PCIe 4.0 architecture:
The PLDA Gen4SWITCH was developed in conjunction with Samtec®, a provider of the patented FIREFLY™ system, enabling chip-to-chip, board-to-board and system-to-system connectivity at data rates up to 28Gbps. According to Adam Lindermann, Optical Product Director t Samtec, "The PLDA Gen4SWITCH showcases a deep collaboration between PLDA and Samtec to produce the first PCIe 4.0 interconnect. We are proud to provide Samtec's 4x FIREFLY optical fibers to the project, which deliver throughput up to 6 GB/s and are key to enabling the Gen4SWITCH to connect downstream to the PCIe 4.0 x4 Endpoint DUT Board."
Learn More: If you are not attending PCI-SIG DevCon, please visit PLDA's website at www.plda.com or contact us at [email protected] to set up a time to demo or test the Gen4SWITCH solution.
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