Silicon-proven sub-system enables easy integration with pre-validated
PHY, controller and verification IP
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rambus
Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), today announced it is collaborating with PLDA,
the industry leader in PCI Express® controller IP solutions,
and Avery
Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification
productivity solutions, to offer a comprehensive, silicon-proven PCI
Express (PCIe) 4.0 solution, with backward compatibility to PCIe 3.0 and
2.0. The new PCIe sub-system includes a Rambus SerDes PHY, a PLDA PCIe
controller and Avery Design's verification IP. The solution is
pre-verified and validated for simple integration into
application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS).
"Our collaboration with PLDA and Avery Design offers customers a
complete, pre-verified PCIe sub-system, with silicon-proven SerDes and a
PCIe controller," said Luc Seraphin, senior vice president and general
manager of the Rambus Memory and Interfaces Division. "Our line-up of
SerDes PHYs is optimized for power and efficiency, delivering maximum
performance and flexibility for today's most challenging systems for a
variety of applications including networking, data center and
high-performance computing."
"Our new solution enables designers to quickly bring their products to
market using a sub-system that combines the expertise of proven industry
leaders, including Rambus, for their broad portfolio of PHYs, and Avery,
for their comprehensive verification solutions," said Arnaud Schleich,
CEO at PLDA. "This platform, which supports endpoint, root port and
switch applications, demonstrates the high-quality of our PCI Express IP
cores, solving performance and integration issues in the market."
"We are excited to team with PLDA and Rambus to offer designers a
complete, pre-validated sub-system solution to get their PCIe solution
to market," said Chris Browy, vice president of Sales and Marketing at
Avery Design. "Pre-qualifying the new PCIe solution with Avery's VIP
solutions enables customers to reduce verification cycles and
implementation risks for their PCI Express solution."
For additional information on Rambus SerDes PHY, please visit rambus.com/serdes.
Availability
The new PCIe solution is now available worldwide in leading CMOS
processes.
For more information, please visit https://www.rambus.com/memory-and-interfaces/serdes/pcie-phy.
About Rambus Inc.
Rambus creates innovative hardware and software technologies, driving
advancements from the data center to the mobile edge. Our chips,
customizable IP cores, architecture licenses, tools, software, services,
training and innovations improve the competitive advantage of our
customers. We collaborate with the industry, partnering with leading
ASIC and SoC designers, foundries, IP developers, EDA companies and
validation labs. Our products are integrated into tens of billions of
devices and systems, powering and securing diverse applications,
including Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile payments, and smart
ticketing. At Rambus, we are makers of better. For more information,
visit rambus.com.
About PLDA
PLDA has been successfully delivering PCI and PCI Express IP for 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).
About Avery Design
Founded in 1999, Avery Design Systems, Inc. enables system and SOC
design teams to achieve dramatic functional verification productivity
improvements through the use of formal analysis applications for
RT-level and gate-level X verification; robust core-through-chip-level
Verification IP for PCI Express, USB, AMBA, UFS, Unipro, CSI-2/DSI-2,
Soundwire, Sensewire, DDR/LPDDR, HBM, HMC, ONFI/Toggle, NVM Express,
SAS, SATA, eMMC, SD/SDIO, CAN FD, LIN, FlexRay, HDMI, and DisplayPort
standards. The company is a member of the Mentor Graphics Value Added
Partnership (VAP) program and has established numerous Avery Design VIP
partner program affiliations with leading IP suppliers. More information
about the company may be found at www.avery-design.com.
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Rambus
Agnes Toan, 408-462-8905
Corporate Communications
atoan@rambus.com
or
PLDA
Romain
Tourneau, +33 4 28 38 04 66
Marketing Manager
rtourneau@plda.com
or
Avery
Design
Chris Browy, 978-851-3627
VP Sales/Marketing
cbrowy@avery-design.com
Source: Rambus Inc.
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