Differential Buffer, TSMC N5, North/South (vertical) poly orientation

Overview

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.

Key Features

  • 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

Block Diagram

Differential Buffer, TSMC N5, North/South (vertical) poly orientation Block Diagram

Technical Specifications

Foundry, Node
TSMC N5 North/South (vertical) poly orientation
TSMC
Pre-Silicon: 5nm
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Semiconductor IP