“Accelerators, graphic processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs) and high-speed network adapters continue to drive the need for higher performance PCIe infrastructure. Microchip’s introduction of the world’s first PCIe 5.0 switch doubles the PCIe Gen 4 interconnect link rates to 32 GT/s to support the most demanding next-generation machine learning platforms,” stated Andrew Dieckmann, affiliate vice chairman of selling and purposes engineering for Microchip’s knowledge heart options enterprise unit. “Coupled with our XpressConnect family of PCIe 5.0 and Compute Express Link (CXL ) 1.1/2.0 retimers, Microchip offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of PCIe Gen 5 infrastructure solutions with the lowest latency and end-to-end interoperability.”
The Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.Zero swap household contains excessive density, excessive reliability switches supporting 28 lanes to 100 lanes and as much as 48 non-transparent bridges (NTBs). The Switchtec expertise units assist excessive reliability capabilities, together with hot-and surprise-plug in addition to safe boot authentication. With PCIe 5.Zero knowledge charges of 32 GT/s, sign integrity and complicated system topologies pose important improvement and debug challenges. To speed up time-to-market, the Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.Zero swap offers a complete suite of debug and diagnostic options together with refined inner PCIe analyzers supporting Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) technology and evaluation and on-chip non-obtrusive SerDes eye seize capabilities. Rapid system bring-up and debug is additional supported with ChipLink—an intuitive graphical consumer interface (GUI) based mostly gadget configuration and topology viewer that gives full entry to the PFX PCIe swap’s registers, counters, diagnostics and forensic seize capabilities.
“Intel’s upcoming Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors will implement PCI Express 5.0 and Compute Express Link running up to 32.0 GT/s to deliver the low-latency and high-bandwidth I/O solutions our customers need to deploy,” stated Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel fellow and director of I/O expertise and requirements. “We are pleased to see Microchip’s PCIe 5.0 switch and retimer investment strengthen the ecosystem and drive broader deployment of PCIe 5.0 and CXL enabled solutions.”
Development Tools
Microchip has launched a full set of design-in collateral, reference designs, analysis boards and instruments to assist prospects constructing methods that make the most of the high-bandwidth of PCIe 5.0.
In addition to PCIe expertise, Microchip additionally offers knowledge heart infrastructure builders worldwide with complete system options together with RAID over NVMe, storage, reminiscence, timing and synchronization methods, stand-alone safe boot, safe firmware and authentication, wi-fi merchandise, touch-enabled shows to configure and monitor knowledge heart gear and predictive fan controls.
Availability
The Switchtec PFX PCIe 5.Zero household of switches are sampling now to certified prospects. For extra info, contact a Microchip gross sales consultant.
