PLDA Announces a Full Set of Solutions to Immediately Enable PCIe 4.0 Design Success

New slideware outlines methods that allows designers to optimize and validate their applications for PCIe 4.0 before motherboards even become available.

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 22, 2016 -- PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® interface IP solutions, today announced a full set of solutions allowing designers to create products optimized for PCIe® 4.0 now. PCIe 4.0 motherboards are not expected to be obtainable until 2017, but when they become available, the market will expect access to applications and components that can take advantage of PCIe 4.0’s speed and agility. By helping with project solutions now, PLDA enables designers to take advantage of the PCIe 4.0 market with less design lag.

To support their solution set, PLDA has created a short video presentation outlining the steps designers can take today to bring their PCIe 4.0 products to completion. The slideware is featured on PLDA’s website at https://www.plda.com/accelerate-your-pcie-40-design-now and outlines considerations required to deliver PCIe 4.0 success including:

Ways to choose the right technical architecture and feature set for a design
Methods to validate and test a design on hardware at PCIe 4.0 speed
Techniques to ensure a smooth integration between the PCIe PHY IP and a PCIe controller
Approaches to create teams that are trained on all of the specific aspects of PCIe 4.0 design

Additionally, the video presentation includes a demo, showing for the first time a PCIe 4.0 Controller IP running at 16 GT/s on a generic PCIe Endpoint platform.

According to Arnaud Schleich, CEO of PLDA, “PCIe 4.0 is expected to deliver added speed and functionality that today’s market craves. By enabling our customers to take advantage of PCIe 4.0, we are giving them a time-to-market and cost-to-market advantage.”

Learn More:
Visit PLDA booth at TSMC OIP (San Jose Convention Center) on September 22 or request a meeting by contacting us at sales@plda.com. To view the video presentation, please visit PLDA’s website at https://www.plda.com/accelerate-your-pcie-40-design-now or contact us at sales@plda.com for help with a particular project.

About PLDA

PLDA has been successfully delivering PCI and PCI Express IP for more than 20 years. With over 6,200 licenses, PLDA has established a vast customer base and the world’s broadest PCIe ecosystem. PLDA has maintained its leadership over four generations of PCI Express specifications, enabling customers to reduce risk and accelerate time to market for their ASIC and FPGA based designs. PLDA provides a complete PCIe solution with its IP cores, FPGA boards for ASIC prototyping, PCIe BFM/testbench, PCIe drivers and APIs. PLDA is a global company with offices in North America (San Jose, California) and Europe (France, Italy, Bulgaria).