Altera Interoperates 28-nm FPGA with PLX Technology's PCIe Gen3 Switch

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Altera Corporation has interoperated its 28-nm Stratix V GX FPGA with PLX Technology's ExpressLane PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3 switch. Stratix V GX FPGAs feature hard PCIe Gen3 IP blocks and are the only FPGA shipping that interoperate with a PCIe Gen3 switch.

Patrick Dorsey, Sr. Director, Component Marketing, Altera said, "Interoperating the industry's highest-performance 28-nm FPGA with the industry's first PCIe Gen3 switch saves significant development time by enabling customers to focus on design issues rather than verifying electrical compliance between devices. The hard PCIe Gen 3 IP blocks in Stratix V conserve logic resources, while increasing throughput and reducing power consumption for high-performance, leading-edge applications."

David Raun, VP, Marketing & Business Development , PLX said, "Interoperation with Stratix V GX FPGAs and PLX PCIe Gen3 switches is critical in the development of the ecosystem and we are pleased to see leaders like Altera developing Gen3 products. Having launched the industry's first PCIe Gen3 silicon in 2010, and remaining the only company shipping production-ready Gen3 switches today, PLX is well-prepared to service this rapidly expanding market."

Stratix V FPGA is currently shipping. The high-performance 28-nm devices are used by customers who require the highest performance and latest technologies, including 14.1 Gbps transceivers, embedded HardCopy blocks and variable precision DSP blocks.

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