PCI Express PLDA Controller and TI PHY Proven Interoperable
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- PLDA, an industry leader in
the high-speed bus market, and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN)
(TI), a leading provider of innovative DSP and analog technologies, today
announced that their PCI Express controller / PHY solution successfully
passed the full suite of PCI-SIG compliance tests and will soon appear on
the PCIe Integrators List.
PLDA will feature a live demo of the PLDA / TI solution at the Embedded
Systems Conference (booth 641) in San Jose, California, April 3-5. Please
visit http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv/ for conference details.
"The joint validation of TI's XIO1100 and PLDA's PIPE IP core provides
customers with a field-proven, out of the box solution that can be used on
any FPGA platform, eliminating the integration and interoperability issues
customers face when working with multiple vendors," said Jawaid Ahmad, PCIe
product marketing manager at TI.
The PLDA TI controller / PHY solution passed the full suite of
compliance tests at the PCI-SIG compliance workshop #54. Tests include link
protocol verification using an Agilent Protocol Test Card (PTC), PCIe
Configuration Space testing (PCIe-CV), extensive electrical testing with
the PCIe Electrical Testing Toolkit, and Interop testing.
"PLDA builds time-saving design blocks that help our clients get to
market faster," says Arnaud Schleich, co-founder and vice president of
Sales and Marketing at PLDA. "By collaborating with partners like TI, we
can offer a broad range of feature-rich PCIe solutions which allow our
clients to focus their efforts on their application logic."
PLDA's silicon proven PCIe IP controller has been listed on PCI-SIG's
Integrators list since 2004. Please visit
http://www.plda.com/products/ip_xpress_fpga.php for details.
TI's XIO1100 PHY interfaces the PCI Express Media Access Layer (MAC) to
a PCIe serial link by using a modified version of Intel's PHY Interface
(PIPE). Please visit http://www.ti.com/sc/device/XIO1100 for details.
About PLDA
PLDA designs and sells a wide range of ASIC and FPGA interfacing
solutions for the PCI Express, PCI-X, PCI and derivative protocols. The
company offers complete solutions, including IP cores, hardware, software,
consulting services, and comprehensive technical support provided directly
by the IP designers.
Founded in 1996 and profitable since its inception, PLDA is privately
owned. The company maintains offices in California and France, and has a
strong international Distributor's network. For additional information
about PLDA, please visit http://www.plda.com .
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing
requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the
Educational & Productivity Solutions business. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more
than 25 countries.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www.ti.com .
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respective owners.
SOURCE Texas Instruments Incorporated; PLDA
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Related links:
http://www.ti.com
http://www.embedded.com/esc/sv
http://www.plda.com/products/ip_xpress_fpga.php
http://www.ti.com/sc/device/XIO1100 http://www.plda.com
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CONTACT:
Sarah Martin of Texas Instruments
Incorporated, +1-214-480-5035, or smartin@ti.com ; or Lisa
Johnson of GolinHarris, +1-972-341-2539, or
ljohnson@golinharris.com , for Texas Instruments Incorporated.
Please do not publish these numbers or e-mail addresses.
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