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Precision labs series: PCIe
High speed, multi-gigabit products are all around us. They can be found in the form of TV, Blu-ray players, notebooks, tablets, hard drives, car video infotainment systems, etc.A high-speed serial link with its multi-gigabit signals suffers from signal distortion as the data rate increases. The signal distortion comes from the PCB and packages dielectric losses, impedance discontinuities due to vias, connectors, and packages.Signal conditioners, such as redrivers, retimers and active switches, are ideal performance enhancement techniques to overcome the distortion improving the signal quality for multi-gigabit signals and increase the total channel reach.This signal conditioning training series will focus on the high speed serial design challenges, various electrical measurement techniques to identify and quantify these challenges, and choose the optimal signal conditioners to solve these challenges.
Precision labs series: PCIe
What is PCIe?
This video is an overview of the PCIe link initialization process.
00:10:02|18 May 2021
In this video, we discuss the development of the PCIe standard and it's common applications. It also will give a brief introduction into how a PCIe link is established during link initializing, including the steps involved in link training, and how signal conditioning should be considered in your next PCIe design.
Resources
- Presentation & quiz
- Search TI's collection of signal conditioners for PCIe, SAS, and SATA products.
- We offer an extensive portfolio of low-power, low-latency, multi-channel redrivers, redrivers and passive switches that support the PCIe®, UPI, CXL™, SAS and SATA protocols.
- Find transceivers, SerDes and signal conditioners from Texas Instruments for more than 20 protocols
- Download and install TINA-TI, the preferred simulator used exclusively with TI Precision Labs.