This slide shows a closer look at Pericom’s latest and most advanced PCIe ReDrivers – the GEN3 family. This family offers the highest bandwidth, lowest power, most EQ settings, and most linear analog amplifiers for best signal reproduction. For PCIe GEN3, Pericom is the only vendor to offer both flow through and interleave pinout options. This gives PCB designers another pinout option to optimize their layout. This family is aimed mainly for server and storage applications, where PCIe GEN3 is available on the CPU chipset, however, higher end FPGA and some non server CPU chipsets now have PCIe GEN3 capability. Remember, all Pericom PCIe ReDrivers are backward compatible, so even if a design is running at GEN2 today, but the designer thinks that in the future the platform will move to GEN3, then using a GEN3 capable ReDriver should be strongly considered. Other key features include a master I2C option, allowing up to 16 IC’s to be programmed by a low cost EEPROM as an alternative to software BIOS programming. Another key feature unique to Pericom is the programmable linear gain of the analog amplifier. This can help to fine tune the ‘eye’ to offer the best performance and offer best performance for link training signals. For this new and advanced family, please contact DigiKey or Pericom directly for more information, datasheet, and sample availability. Note that Pericom also offers a 10Gb version of this family, aimed at 10Gb / 40Gb Ethernet XFI, SFI, KR applications. This part is capable of running at up to 11.3Gb speeds (Some Ethernet KR options require this).