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Gennum Demonstrates High-performance Embedded PCI Express Application at Intel Developer ForumInnovative Retimed Repeater Enables PCIe to Extend Beyond the PCSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/19/08 -- Intel Developer Forum 2008, PCIe Community, Gennum Booth #718 - Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Showcasing the extensibility of PCI Express® (PCIe®) beyond traditional PC applications, Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) will provide a unique I/O expansion system demonstration for IDF attendees this week. The demonstration, at 5.0 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), leverages an IDT PCIe Gen2 switch and the Gennum PCIe Gen 2 retimed repeater solution. Being featured at IDF, held August 19-21 at the Moscone Center, this demonstration showcases the extension of PCIe signalling across more than 50 feet of PCIe cable and 15 feet of low-cost Category 5 cabling. "Applications that require high data rate throughput such as video game cards, servers, storage systems, communication platforms and blade servers are driving the demand for high-performance PCIe solutions," said Bharat Tailor, director of marketing, networking, storage and computing for Gennum. "Today's demonstration provides attendees with a first-hand look at an I/O expansion system using off the shelf components-one of the popular IDT PCIe Gen2 PCIe switching solutions and Gennum's advanced repeater solution-that can deliver the lowest latency, lowest jitter, error-free PCIe performance." PCIe Market Extends Beyond the PC to High-performance Embedded Systems "We continue to see a trend to extend PCIe and expect that to continue over the next three to five years," said Jag Bolaria, senior analyst, The Linley Group. According to a report by The Linley Group, like its predecessor, PCIe is moving beyond PCs into high performance embedded and communications systems. The Linley Group estimates last year's market for PCIe connectivity products, primarily bridges and switches, at $55 million, with most of the revenue coming from the server and storage segments. The connectivity market is expected to exceed $195 million by 2011, with much of the growth coming from communications and embedded systems, according to Bolaria. "At IDT we are seeing significant traction for our broadest portfolio of PCIe switching solutions. The Gennum demonstration is an example of our innovative approach of working with our customers and within the ecosystem to meet our customers' I/O expansion and system interconnect requirements," said Kam Eshghi, director of marketing for the IDT Enterprise Computing Division. "Systems designers are struggling to ensure signal integrity across PCIe Gen2 cables and backplanes and, by leveraging the IDT and Gennum products, our customers can confidently expand their PCIe systems and achieve the full 5GT/s error-free performance their applications require." Unique Demonstration Drives PCIe Across IDF Show Floor The IDT/Gennum demonstration begins with a PC with an internal Blu-Ray disk drive video source that is connected via 50 feet of PCIe cable to the IDT PCIe Gen2 switch. The switch is then connected to two graphic cards driving video displays. One graphic card is connected directly to one of the switch's downstream ports and another is connected to a second downstream port via 15 feet of Category 5 cabling. Gennum's GN1406 retimer provides the bridging function between PC to switch and switch to graphics card ensuring maximum signal integrity. The demonstration highlights the ability to expand one host PCIe slot into additional PCIe slots over cable, an increasing requirement in many emerging high-performance PCIe applications. The additional slots can be used for PCIe I/O or embedded computing boards or graphics processors, as shown in the demonstration. Power intensive PCIe boards can then be moved outside the PC into a remote chassis with its own power supply and cooling, making this ideal for applications such as instrumentation systems that require large number of data acquisition boards, video workstations and mobile workstations. Gennum's GN1406 Delivers Unprecedented PCIe Performance The industry's first re-timed repeater solution that integrates a CDR, the GN1406 is a highly integrated 90nm CMOS solution capable of propagating error-free PCIe 2.0 signals at speeds of 5 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) at distances of more than 100 feet in copper cable chassis-to-chassis interconnect applications, and over 60 inches of standard FR-4 in backplane applications. In addition to more than 15 feet at 5.0GT/s Gen2 speeds, the GN1406 can also propagate 2.5GT/s Gen1 speeds over more than 25 feet using Category 5 cabling. The CDR-based solution from Gennum resets the jitter budget after equalization and greatly increases the robustness of the link, ensuring that downstream devices receive a low-jitter, error-free signal, independent of the amount of skew or other jitter contributors such as cross-talk. About Gennum PCI Express Offerings In addition to the GN1406 repeater solution, Gennum provides flexible local bus endpoint bridge chip solutions that enable such applications as HD video capture, data acquisition, communications controllers, and configurable computing. The Gennum Snowbush division provides Intellectual Property cores for PCI Express physical layer and transaction/link layer implementation. For further information about Gennum PCIe switching solutions, please refer to www.gennum.com. About Gennum Gennum Corporation (TSX: GND) designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world's most advanced consumer connectivity, enterprise, video broadcast and data communications products. Leveraging the company's proven optical, analog and mixed-signal products and IP, Gennum enables multimedia and data communications products to send and receive information without compromising the signal integrity. A recognized award-winner for advances in high definition (HD) broadcasting, Gennum is headquartered in Burlington, Canada, and has global design, research and development and sales offices in Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, the United States and the United Kingdom. Gennum, the Gennum logo are registered trademarks of Gennum Corporation. IDT and the IDT logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Integrated Device Technology, Inc. All other brands, product names and marks are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks used to identify products or services of their respective owners. Contacts: |
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