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PCIe 4.0 Ecosystem with Synopsys and Mellanox-June 13, 2017 |
Synopsys has a long history of working with ecosystem partners as part of the development process, especially when new versions of a specification are rolled out. The PCIe 4.0 specification has taken a long time, but that hasn’t slowed us down. If you remember from previous postings, some of our PCIe 4.0 demos include:
- The world’s first PCIe Gen4 system is comprised of a Synopsys PCIe Gen4 Root Complex talking to a Synopsys PCIe Gen4 Endpoint (both of which have passed PCI-SIG compliance testing at Gen3 by the way).
- PCI Express 4.0 Performance at More than 1600 MB/s. This demonstration features Synopsys’ DesignWare® Controller and PHY IP for PCI Express® 4.0 solution and uses a PCI Express switch to connect a host PC to an Endpoint application. Since today’s PCs do not support PCIe® 4.0 at 16 GT/s, the switch utilizes four lanes at 5 GT/s connection on the upstream port