Microchip Technology has announced sample availability of the new PCI100x family of Switchtec PCIe Gen 4.0 switches in variants to support packet switching and automotive applications.
In automotive applications, efficient management of high-bandwidth data transfer and seamless communication between multiple devices or subsystems are critical, making Microchip’s PCIe switches an ideal solution.
They provide scalability, reliability, and low-latency connectivity, which are crucial for handling the demanding workloads of modern high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
The PCI1005 is a packet switch that expands a single host PCIe port to as many as six endpoints. The PCI1003 device enables multi-host connectivity through Non-Transparent Bridging (NTB) and is fully configurable to support from 4–8 ports. All devices comply with the PCI-SIG Gen5 specification and operate up to 16GT/s. High-speed DMA is supported on all variants.
The Switchtec technology features include Automatic Error Reporting (AER), Downstream Port Containment (DPC), and Completion Timeout Synthesis (CTS). The PCI100x devices are available in wide temperature ranges, including commercial (0°C to +70°C), industrial (−40° to +85 °C), and Automotive-Grade 2 (−40° to +105 °C) ambient ratings.
Microchip’s portfolio also includes Flashtec NVMe controllers and NVRAM drives, Ethernet PHYs and switches, timing solutions and Flash-based FPGAs and SoCs, supporting markets such as the automotive and industrial sectors.
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