The PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2025 is returning to Santa Clara on June 11-12, 2025! Members of the PCI-SIG community including systems architects, designers, engineers, and engineering managers all agree this is an event you won’t want to miss.
Overview
The PCI-SIG Developers Conferences is a free event for our 900+ … Read More
Part 2 examines the transformation of the interface protocols industry from a fragmented market of numerous specialized vendors to a more consolidated one dominated by a few major solutions providers as driven by the increasing complexity of modern protocols. It highlights the importance of rigorous validation of interface… Read More
In the age of rapid technological innovation, hyperscale datacenters are evolving at a breakneck pace. With the continued advancements in CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and switches, faster data transfers are now paramount. At the forefront of this advancement is PCI Express (PCIe®), which has become the de-facto standard of interconnect… Read More
For decades now I’ve watched the incredible growth of SoCs in terms of die size, transistor count, frequency and complexity. Instead of placing all of the system complexity into a single, monolithic chip, there are now compelling reasons to use a multi-chip approach, like when the maximum die size limit is reached, or it’s… Read More
Domain specific processors are a mega-trend in the semiconductor industry, so we see new three letter acronyms like DPU, for Data Processing Unit. System level performance can actually be improved by moving some of the tasks away from the CPU. Companies like Xilinx (Alveo), Amazon (Nitro) and NVIDIA (BlueField) have been talking… Read More
We have seen that the interface IP category is seeing incredibly high growth rate over the last two decades and we expect this category to generate an ongoing high source of IP revenues for at least another decade. But if we dig into the various successful protocols like PCI Express, Ethernet or USB, we can detect a common function … Read More
When I think about servers and data centers, I think about multiple-core/high-power CPUs, Intel’s domination over the years and GPUs coming on strong in recent years. I think about very fast digital interfaces, such as PCI Express connections and the latest DDR memory interface. Precision analog isn’t something that first comes… Read More
TrueChip is a Verification IP specialist. For more than 10 years they have provided verification IP’s, like USB, PCIe, Ethernet, Memory, AMBA, Display RISC V and many more. They have an extensive portfolio including a very interesting product that is “TruEYE™️ GUI” which is a debugger helper tool for the verifications IPs.
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In the last article i write about the Data Link Layer, in this article i’ll write about the Transaction Layer.
This layer’s primary responsibility is to create PCI Express request and completion transactions. It has both transmit functions for outgoing transactions, and receive functions for incoming transactions.… Read More
