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16 years ago

Arria II GX FPGAs PCIe 2.0 PCI-SIG compliance?

hi, there are some news said these days " Arria II GX FPGAs achive PCI-SIG compliance for PCIe 2.0 ... " To my understanding, the highest data rate of integrated transceiver of ...
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16 years ago

PCIe 2.0 is 5.0 Giga-transfers per second because there is a lane going each way between two devices. Thus, a clock speed of 2.5GHz is required to achieve this transfer rate, which is mighty fast but it falls within the range of the A2GX transceivers.