Overview
The multi-protocol SerDes PHY consists of Serial ATA (SATA) conforming with SATA 3.0 Specification, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) compliant with PCIe 2.0 Base Specification with support for PIPE interface spec, Universal Serial Bus (USB) compliant with USB 3.0, USB 2.0 (USB Highspeed and Full speed), and USB 3.0 compliant with USB 3.0. Support for extra PLL control, reference clock control, and inbuilt power gating control results in lower power usage. Additionally, the PHY is broadly usable for diverse circumstances under varying considerations of power consumption because the aforementioned low power mode option is customizable.
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Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed to support engineering schools as they develop their silicon and hardware technologies. The New Silicon Initiative (NSI) is designed to inspire and prepare students for careers in hardware engineering, computer architecture, and silicon chip design.
Increasingly, more of the focus on mobile has centered around cloud datacenters and the networking to get the data back and forth between these datacenters and the mobile device. Functions like voice recognition and mapping depend on the ability to split the functionality between the smartphone, for local processing like encryption and compression, and the back end, where a large number of servers can do the heavier lifting before returning the results.
Steven Brown
The Cadence 10G multi-protocol PHY was architected to address this exact challenge. Designed to scale across multiple process nodes, it consolidates PCI Express (PCIe), USB, DisplayPort, Ethernet, and other interfaces into a single, compact, silicon-efficient block. What sets it apart is simultaneous multi-protocol support, which enables multiple data paths without duplicating hardware, requiring extra board connectors, or paying the area and power penalty of separate IP blocks.
