Alliances drive adoption of PCI Express IP.(TechView: EDA)(Synopsys with Rambus and Artisan Components)(Brief Article)

Electronic Design, October, 2003

Two separate partnerships between Synopsys and intellectual-property (IP) providers hope to speed the adoption of the high-speed PCI Express architecture. In teaming with Rambus Inc. and Artisan Components Inc., Synopsys hopes to demonstrate the interoperability of each vendor's PCI physical-layer (PHY) IP in a low-risk implementation environment.

Synopsys will pair its DesignWare PCI Express endpoint controller core with Rambus' RaSer PHY core for a demonstration at this year's PCI Express Interoperability Workshop. The platform demo will consist of two boards: a motherboard built by Synopsys that uses FPGAs to house the endpoint controller core with driver software, and a daughterboard consisting of Rambus' PHY IP. The interface between the two...

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