Vendor: Synopsys, Inc. Category: PCI Express

PCIe 4.0 PHY in GF (14nm, 12nm)

The multi-channel Synopsys PHY IP for PCI Express® 4.0 includes Synopsys’ high-speed, high-performance transceiver to meet today’…

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Overview

The multi-channel Synopsys PHY IP for PCI Express® 4.0 includes Synopsys’ high-speed, high-performance transceiver to meet today’s applications’ demands for higher bandwidth. The PHY’s cost-effective solution meets the needs of today’s high-speed chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and backplane interfaces while being extremely low in power and area.
Using leading-edge design, analysis, simulation, and measurement techniques, Synopsys delivers exceptional signal integrity and jitter performance that exceeds the PCI Express standard’s electrical specifications. The high-margin, robust PHY architecture tolerates process, voltage and temperature (PVT) manufacturing variations and is implemented with standard CMOS digital process technologies.
The multi-tap transmitter and receiver equalizers, along with the advanced built-in diagnostics and ATE test vectors, enable customers to control, monitor
and test for signal integrity without the need for expensive test equipment. This provides on-chip visibility into actual link and channel performance to quickly improve signal integrity. This capability reduces both product development cycles and the need for costly field support.

Key features

  • Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) block with PIPE interface
  • Support PCIe 4.0, 3.1, 2.1, 1.1 encoding, backchannel initialization
  • Lane margining at the receiver
  • Spread-spectrum clocking (SRIS)
  • PCIe power management features, including L1 substate; power gating and power island; DFE bypass option and voltage mode TX with under drive supply options
  • Multi-channel PHY macro with single clock and control core for higher density with support for both internal and external reference clock inputs
  • PIPE bifurcation as well as PHY macro aggregation for up to 16-lane PHY configurations
  • Superior RX jitter & cross talk tolerance reduces design constraints for a wider range of board layout designs
  • Automated Test Equipment (ATE) test vectors for complete at-speed production testing
  • Each PHY channel contains its own 7-, 9-, 11-, 15-, 16-, 23-, and 31-bit pseudo random bit sequencer (PRBS) for internal and external loopbacks
  • Each channel is fully controllable via the integrated logic core as well as the test access port (TAP)

Benefits

  • Supports the latest featues of PCIe® 4.0 specification, compliant with PCIe 3.1, 2.1, 1.1, and PIPE specifications
  • x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 lane configurations with bifurcation
  • Multi-tap adaptive and programmable Continuous Time Linear Equalizer (CTLE) and Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) supporting more than 36dB channel loss
  • Adaptive receiver equalizer with programmable settings
  • Supports lane margining at the receiver
  • Supports L1 substate power management
  • Power gating and power island
  • Embedded bit error rate tester (BERT) and internal eye monitor
  • Built-in Self Test vectors, pseudo random bit sequencer (PRBS) generation and checker
  • IEEE 1149.6 AC JTAG Boundary Scan
  • Supports -40°C to 125°C junction temperatures
  • Supports flip-chip packaging

Applications

  • Desktops, workstations, servers
  • Automotive
  • Embedded systems and set-top boxes
  • Network switches and routers
  • Enterprise computing and storage networks

What’s Included?

  • Verilog models
  • Liberty timing views (.lib)
  • LEF abstracts (.lef)
  • CDL netlist (.cdl)
  • GDSII
  • ATPG models
  • IBIS-AMI models
  • Documentation

Files

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Silicon Options

Foundry Node Process Maturity
GlobalFoundries 12nm LP Available on request

Specifications

Identity

Part Number
dwc_pcie4phy_gf
Vendor
Synopsys, Inc.

Provider

Synopsys, Inc.
HQ: USA
Synopsys is a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven semiconductor IP solutions for SoC designs. The broad Synopsys IP portfolio includes logic libraries, embedded memories, analog IP, wired and wireless interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. To accelerate IP integration, software development, and silicon bring-up, Synopsys’ IP Accelerated initiative provides architecture design expertise, pre-verified and customizable IP subsystems, hardening, and signal/power integrity analysis. Synopsys' extensive investment in IP quality, comprehensive technical support and robust IP development methodology enables designers to reduce integration risk and accelerate time-to-market.
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