PCI Express (PCIe ) Gen2 Switching Devices - IDT

Integrated Device Technology, Inc., (IDT) announced two PCI Express (PCIe ) switching devices that meet the PCIe Gen2 (PCI-SIG PCI Express Base 2.0) specification. The new  PCI Express switching solutions are optimized to solve system I/O connectivity challenges. The new switching devices simplified board layout, reduces development and manufacturing and speeding up time to market.

About this IDT  PCIe Gen2 switching devices, Mario Montana, IDT Serial Switching Division, said:

We've worked closely with our top-tier system OEM partners to ensure our family of PCIe Gen2 switching solutions sets new standards in performance-per-watt to meet critical data throughput and power consumption requirements in their enterprise and data center applications…

IDT is pleased to lead the transition to PCIe Gen2 connectivity for next generation server platforms by introducing our first PCIe Gen2 switches. We will continue to aggressively work toward offering our customer partners the same comprehensive set of lane and port configurations in our PCIe Gen2 devices as those found in our broad family of PCIe Gen1 devices..

The two new IDT  PCIe Gen2 switching devices enable the cost-effective development of new systems by doubling the throughput bandwidth of existing PCIe lanes to 5 gigabits per second of data transfer allowing a 50 percent reduction in the number of PCIe lanes and board traces necessary to support link throughput requirements. 

The initial IDT PCIe Gen2 offering consists of two switches, a 12-lane, 3-port switch and a 16-lane, 4-port switch. The switches provide 12 and 16 gigabytes per second of total switching bandwidth, are PCIe 2.0 compliant and offer optimized power consumption to reduce total cost of ownership and reduce thermal design complexity.

Each of the new PCIe Gen2 switching devices 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.

IDT  PCIe Gen2 switching solutions will be available for sampling in the Q3 this year.

Further reading: IDT PCI Express (PCIe ) Gen2 switching solutions