ChipX Announces New Development Kit with PCI Express PHY for CX6100 Structured ASICs

ChipX Announces New Development Kit with PCI Express PHY for CX6100 Structured ASICs

ChipX, announced today a new development kit for the CX6100 family of Structured ASICs.

By integrating the same PCI Express (PCIe) PHY used in ChipX’s CX6100 Structured ASIC family with a PCIe development board and FPGA, the development kit offers designers a new opportunity to lower their design risk, reduce verification time and dramatically shorten their development cycle.

ChipX’s kit differs from other PCIe development kits available today which use PHYs supplied by third parties that are not available in IP form for later integration.

The ChipX CX6100 Development Kit provides an ideal prototyping environment by supplying a development board with a CX6159 Structured ASIC containing the ChipX PCIe PHY and PIPE Gasket Logic and an Altera Stratix FPGA. The PCIe PHY supports high bandwidth applications through both x1 and x4 lane operation. To initialize and control PHY parameters, the kit includes an I2C port and a Windows-based GUI supplied on a CD-ROM. Designers can program a synthesizable PCIe controller, available from ChipX or a third party vendor, and customized logic, into the FPGA using standard Altera tools.

The board comes in the same dimensions as a standard PCIe card and can be easily operated for system integration, software co-development and validation testing through a standard PCIe edge connector. Once prototype development is complete, designers can seamlessly map their custom logic, the PCIe controller and PCIe PHY into a single CX6100 Structured ASIC without the migration issues normally associated with a FPGA-to-ASIC conversion.

For more on the ChipX CX6100 Family visit:http://www.chipx.com/cx6100-structured-asic.html