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 a...