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ChipX Achieves PCI Express Compliance Certification

(Jan 17, 2008)-- ChipX, a Mixed-Signal ASIC company with the broadest offering of ASIC solutions, announces that it has passed full PCI Express (PCIe) compliance at the December 2007 PCI-SIG compliance workshop in Milpitas, California. The certification gives customers confidence that their ASIC, built by ChipX, passes PCI SIG certification as well.

ChipX offers PCI Express solutions consisting of a silicon proven controller and PHY that can be integrated in a Mixed-Signal Standard Cell ASIC, Hybrid ASIC, Embedded Array, or Structured ASIC platform. Using the "Trusted PHY" PCIe development system, designers can implement a ChipX-supplied controller in FPGA and then interface to a test chip with the exact same PHY that will be used in the final Mixed-Signal ASIC. By doing so, the interface implementation risk is greatly reduced. Most other systems available today cannot be tested in a FPGA with the same PHY that will be used in the final ASIC.

"We are delighted to announce full PCI Express compliance for our one to multi-lane PCI Express solutions," said Wouter Suverkropp, Director of Marketing for ChipX. "Designers now have the broadest choice of Mixed-Signal ASIC options available to them, and can select the optimum solution based on their sensitivities to time to market, unit cost, and NRE."

Companies that want to keep their initial NRE investment low and get to market quickly -- while taking advantage of the performance, power, and cost benefits of an ASIC -- can go to market with a PCI Express Structured ASIC platform. Using ChipX XPath methodology, customers can seamlessly migrate to a Mixed-Signal Standard Cell ASIC once the market and features are proven. Alternatively, customers can start with a Hybrid ASIC or Mixed-Signal Standard Cell ASIC from day one.

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