TI And Altera Deliver Low-Cost PCI Express

Texas Instruments and Altera announced the availability of a low-cost, PCI-SIG-compliant solution that reduces the cost and accelerates the development of PCI Express-based systems. Suitable for video cards, data acquisition, test and network equipment, and various embedded applications, this offering includes TI's XIO1100 PCI Express x1 physical layer (PHY) chip, Altera's low-cost Cyclone II FPGAs and PCI Express x1 MegaCore intellectual property (IP) function.

This low-cost solution builds upon TI's and Altera's existing portfolios of PCI Express offerings. TI offers the XIO1100 along with a complete line of PCI Express-compliant products targeted for a variety of applications such as PC add-in cards, communications, storage, industrial, test equipment, servers and other embedded system applications. Altera provides a range of complete FPGA solutions for a variety of x1, x4 and x8 PCI Express applications, including configurable PCI Express IP cores and development boards for endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex functionality.

Source: Texas Instruments

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