Gen1 PCI Express - AXI Bridge
Product Brief
Applications
* PC’s workstations and servers
* Storage
* Networking and communications
* Switches and routers
Benefits
* Verified with leading AXI VIP
* Superior architecture-high performance, low latency and low gate count
* Feature rich, highly flexible, scalable, configurable and timing friendly design
* Ease of integration
Superior Architecture
The GDA PCI Express*-AMBA AXI Bridge (PCIe-AXI Bridge) is a highly flexible and configurable IP with a PCI Express interface on one side and an AMBA AXI interface on the system side. The Bridge has been architectured to interface with a PCI Express controller used as an end-point or root-complex type devices. The PCIe-AXI BRIDGE uses high speed multi-channel DMA controllers to match the bandwidth requirements of the PCIe Gen2 solution.
The GDA PCI Express-AXI Bridge is a simple, configurable and layered architecture, independent of applications, implementation tools or target technology. The controller architecture is carefully tailored to optimize latency, power consumption, and silicon footprint, making it ideal for cost and performance sensitive applications. The PCIe-AXI BRIDGE solution provides highly scalable bandwidth through a configurable data path width and clock frequency,
Most Thoroughly Verified and Interoperable Design
The GDA PCIe-AXI BRIDGE is an exhaustively verified solution tested with high coverage design specific as well as random tests. The IP is verified with leading AXI verification IP and the verification environment can be configured to run with all the major simulators. The reusable block level verification environment and the formal verification methodology enhance the quality of verification process and add more confidence to the design verification
The GDA PCI Express-AXI Bridge solution leverages years of experience in creating reusable IP solutions for Ethernet, RapidIO and PCI Express technologies. The expertise in creating those system validated solutions with RTL, synthesis,
simulation, board and software elements ensures delivery of lower risk, compliant and interoperable solution.
Ease of Integration
The GDA PCI Express- AXI Bridge design is fully synchronous and adheres to standard synthesis, test insertion and physical design practices. The solution allows licensees to easily migrate among COT, FPGA, Gate array, structured ASIC and Standard cell technologies. The design with its flexible user logic interface can be easily integrated into a wide range of applications.
Superior Support
The PCIe-AXI BRIDGE solution comes with a superior support model that offers round the clock telephone, email, web based support and free code updates during the support period. Support documents including a data sheet, design guide, verification guide, synthesis guide and application notes are also offered. To build a full-system solution the GDA partner eco-system provides access to additional components such as verification IP, PHYs and related design services.
Design Configurability
The design offers enormous hardware and software configurable options allowing the user to choose the optimal solution to meet his requirement. The configuration options include
* PIO, DMA or mixed mode of operation
* Up to 8 Read and Write DMA supported
* Up to 8 PCI Express capable AXI Slave PIO devices supported
* Up to 8 AXI capable PCI Express PIO devices supported
* Maximum DMA transfer size of 1 MB
* Register based or Chain Descriptor based DMA types
* Priority level transaction initiations by different DMA/PIO devices
* Programmable address mapping for PIO transfers
* Programmable PCI Express tags reserved for each DMA/PIO device
* PCI Express or AMBA hosted DMA accesses
* AXI or APB register space accesses
* System clock frequency
* Synchronous/Asynchronous reset
Deliverables
The deliverables include
* Verilog RTL
* Behavioral test bench and test cases
* PCI Express and Application BFM
* ASIC Synthesis environment
* Documentation
*PCI Express is a registered trademark of the PCI-SIG.
GDA IP; Sold under GDA’s Re-seller agreement with Rambus, Inc.
Features
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PCI Express Features |
Compliant with PCI Express Base 1.1 or 2.0