This slide shows a closer look at Pericom’s PCIe GEN1 and GEN2 offerings. GEN1 offers both 2 Lane and 1 Lane options. These parts also work well for GMII and proprietary PHY / Serdes extension in networking applications. Many embedded, telecom, and networking applications still operate at GEN1 speed. The GEN1 family parts all use pin strapping for EQ, DE, OS settings. Although PCIe GEN1 speed (2.5 Gb) is older, some customers still only need this lowest speed PCIe ReDriver. For GEN2, Pericom offers both 4 Lane and 1 Lane options. This speed family offers both I2C and pin strap programming options for EQ, DE, OS, and other parameters to help tune the ReDriver for best eye opening. Most networking and embedded CPU/FPGA are at least PCIe GEN2 capable (Freescale, Altera, Xilinx, etc). The 4 Lane option works well in server, networking, and graphics applications where there are typically 8 or 16 lanes of PCIe. I2C register access is very helpful for bigger platforms where BIOS can control the EQ, DE, and OS of the ReDriver. The 1 Lane option is a very low power IC that works well to extend traces in notebook, docking, and other mobile applications where battery life is important, as well as embedded, and other 1 Lane PCIe applications. Pericom is the first vendor to receive official PCI-SIG workshop compliance for a PCIe GEN2 redriver and is listed on the PCISIG website integrator’s list.