Semiconductor Engineering

Rethinking AI Infrastructure: The Rise Of PCIe Switches

When thinking of AI, images of futuristic robots or self-driving cars may come to mind. What might not come to mind are the unsung hardware component heroes that are quietly enabling such complex ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Connecting Emulated Designs To Real PCIe Devices

These days verification teams no longer question whether hardware assisted verification should be used in their projects. Rather, they ask at which stage they should start using it. Contemporary ...
EDN

The PCI Express switch and bridge landscape

As the I/O interconnect world has transitioned from PCI to PCI Express (PCIe), bridge ICs have filled a critical role: to allow designers to continue to use existing PCI and PCI-X endpoints in ...
EDN

Using PCI Express as the Primary System Interconnect

With the benefits of reduced power consumption, scalability of bandwidth, increased data throughput and improved signal integrity, PCI Express (PCIe®) has replaced legacy bus-based PCI and PCI-X, and ...
Design-Reuse

Achieving Compliance and Interoperability for Your PCI Express Design

Integrating PCI Express into a design requires verifying that the product is compliant to the PCI Express specification and interoperable with other PCI Express devices. To lower integration risk and ...