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San Jose, CA, 2005-03-10 - Pericom Semiconductor Corporation
(NASDAQ:
PSEM), a worldwide preferred supplier of high-speed integrated circuits,
today announced participation at the April 7-8, 2005 Intel Developer
Forum
in Tokyo, where they will demonstrate their performance enhancing PCI Express
Signal Switches.
Pericom’s PI2PCIE212
and PI2PCIE412 PCI Express Signal Switches offer
a way to allocate PCI Express bandwidth by allowing the limited PCI Express
lanes from the
root complex to be dynamically assigned to different slots of
a system, thus enabling the allocation of bandwidth at the same time. The conventional
PCI Express Packet Switch does not always include bandwidth allocation features.
“When compared to a typical PCI Express Packet
Switch, the Pericom
Signal Switch does not create much latency other than a typical trace delay,” explained
Shaf Rahman, Pericom
Marketing Director . “On the other hand, the Packet
Switch needs to examine the PCI Express header before it is able to switch
a packet,
thus creating unnecessary delay. The lack of latency of the Signal
Switch can often translate to higher performance over the PCI Express
Bus.”
PI2PCIE212 contains two Differential Signal Switches, each with one pair
on the primary side and two pairs on the
secondary side. The Switch may connect
the primary pair to one of the secondary pairs according to the value of the
select bit. PI2PCIE412
contains four pairs of differential signal on the primary
side, and eight pairs of differential signal on the secondary side.
Availability and Pricing:
PI2PCIE212 and PI2PCIE412 PCI Express Signal Switches are sampling now under
NDA, with pricing
starting at $1.50 in 10,000 unit quantities. For datasheets
and additional information, please visit www.pericom.com/techsupport or
contact Product Marketing.
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About Pericom
Pericom Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEM) enables serial connectivity with the industry's most complete solutions for the computing, communications and consumer market segments. Pericom's analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, along with its SaRonix-eCera frequency control products are essential in the timing, switching, bridging and conditioning of high-speed signals required by today's ever-increasing speed and bandwidth demanding applications. Company headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with design centers and technical sales and support offices globally.
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