PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® IP and data
interconnect solutions, today reaffirms its support for both CXL™
and Gen-Z™ protocols with its newly-launched XpressLINK™
Controller IP designed to CXL and its upcoming Gen-Z Controller
IP. Today's announcement builds on an April 2, 2020
announcement from the CXL Consortium and Gen-Z Consortium
highlighting their execution of a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) for collaboration between the two organizations. PLDA is
now perfectly positioned within the IP arena to provide both CXL
and Gen-Z technologies to designers in the semiconductor space,
including in datacenter, storage, compute, AI, and networking
industries.


                                Read the Press Release  



About PLDA's XpressLINK Controller IP



PLDA's newly announced XpressLINK Controller IP is a
parameterizable Compute Express Link (CXL) Soft IP controller
designed for both ASIC and FPGA implementation. The
XpressLINK Controller IP leverages PLDA's silicon proven
XpressRICH™ Controller for PCIe® 5.0 architecture for CXL.io,
and adds CXL.cache and CXL.mem specific to CXL. 

Key highlights of XpressLINK's Controller IP include:


    •   Plans to support future CXL specification releases
    •   Implementation of the CXL.io, CXL.mem, and CXL.cache
         protocols
    •   Support for all 3 defined CXL device types
    •   Support for the PCI Express 5.0 Base Specification,
         Revision 1.0
    •   Support for the PIPE 5.x specification with 8-, 16-, 32-,
         64-, and 128-bit configurable PIPE interface width

 
                                        XpressLINK CXL IP 
 

Please feel free to contact us if you have an active project that
you would like to discuss or if you have any other questions.


We will be happy to schedule a call with our FAEs to address
any questions that you may have and collaborate with you in
the future!     




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