PCIe 5.0 PHY, TSMC N6 x2, North/South (vertical) poly orientation

The multi-channel PHY IP for PCI Express® (PCIe®)5.0 and CXL includes a high-speed, high-performance transceiver to meet today’s demands for higher bandwidth. The PHY 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, the supplier delivers exceptional signal integrity and jitter performance that exceeds the PCI Express standards 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, reducing both product development cycles and the need for costly field support.

• Supports all required features of the PCIe® 5.0, 4.0, 3.1, 2.1, 1.1, PIPE, and CXL 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 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
• Embedded Bit Error Rate (BER) tester and internal eye monitor
• Built-in Self Test vectors, PRBS generation and checker
• IEEE 1149.6 AC JTAG Boundary Scan
• Supports -40°C to 125°C junction temperatures
• Supports flip-chip packaging