IMPLEMENTING PCI EXPRESS BRIDGING SOLUTIONS IN AN FPGA

Like its predecessor, the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI Express is becoming a ubiquitous system interface. Unlike PCI, PCI Express adopts a Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) interface to provide users with the scalability required for future applications. As system bandwidths increase, more applications are moving to SERDES-based interfaces like PCI Express.
Several new FPGAs families now offer very attractive options to designers. FPGAs provide an extremely flexible platform without the long lead times and large NREs typically associated with ASICs or the inflexibility of ASSPs.
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