IDT OFFERS BROADEST FAMILY OF LOW POWER PCI EXPRESS SWITCHES OPTIMIZED FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE I/O CONNECTIVITY

The new switches are optimized to address the I/O connectivity challenges faced by systems ranging from high end servers, storage and communications equipment to industrial and consumer applications. Utilizing a highly innovative architecture, the switches maximize data throughput performance to achieve not only the lowest power consumption per lane, but also the highest performance per watt, of any PCIe switch currently available today.

The new devices are PCI Express 1.1 compliant and deploy the industry’s broadest range of lane/port configurations, providing customers with a wide range of system design choices. The PRECISE family delivers switching bandwidth of 24 gigabytes per second (GBps) for the 48-lane/12-port switch. At the low-end, the 8-lane/5-port switch delivers 4 GBps throughput. Key design decisions, such as support for up to 2048-byte payloads, large internal buffers and a significant number of flow control credits enable these switches to offer maximum throughput.

Each member of the PRECISE family 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.

Moreover, to ensure that each OEM system design is optimized for production and meets its time to market objectives, IDT provides customers with extensive, collaborative technical support including system modelling and signal integrity analyses, and schematic and layout review services.

For additional information visit www.IDT.com/go/pciexpress_m.