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IDT introduces industry's lowest power, smallest package PCI Express switches
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IDT™ has announced five new PCI Express® (PCIe®) switches optimised to solve system I/O connectivity challenges faced by systems requiring both low lane and low port counts in embedded medical, automotive, PC and consumer applications. The devices range from a 3-lane, 3-port switch to an 8-lane, 5-port switch. These products leverage the IDT expertise in high-speed switching and use the PCI Express standard to allow the seamless interconnect of processing, storage and networking system elements in a power-efficient manner. | |
Key Facts:
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These new PCIe switches are the industry’s lowest power consuming and smallest devices, offered in a quad flat no-lead (QFN) package. Available in multiple package options for greater flexibility in customer and end-user applications, the devices reduce customers’ total cost of ownership by minimizing system thermal management requirements. The new PCIe switch family makes serial connectivity available for PC, consumer and embedded applications that were previously unable to take advantage of the benefits of serial connectivity due to price-point, excessive power consumption and board real estate limitations.
The new family is PCIe specification 1.1 compliant and features devices with two to four downstream x1 connections to enable I/O connectivity of key endpoints that have migrated from PCI to PCIe and the ability to select upstream connectivity from x1, x2 or x4 to match system throughput requirements. Each device is designed for high performance with a low latency, cut-through architecture, deep buffering and support for large maximum payload sizes to afford designers performance headroom to adapt to rapidly changing market requirements characteristic of consumer applications.
Each member of the IDT PCIe family of switches has a dedicated evaluation and development kit for device testing and analysis, and system emulation. Each kit consists of a hardware evaluation 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.For more information on the full range of Integrated Device Technology products available from Anglia please call +44 (0)1945 474747 or email info@anglia.com
