Unifying Storage Diversity: Leveraging PCIe IP for Multi-Device, Multi Form Factor Designs


In the fast-paced world of data storage, designers are racing to keep up with ever-evolving interface standards and form factors. This whitepaper explores the impact of these industry shifts, focusing on the integration of PCIe interfaces within the context of varying storage device form factors like the Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF). PCIe designs need to be flexible in... » read more

PCIe 6.0, NVMe, And Emerging Form Factors For Storage Applications


PCIe 6.0 implementations are expandable and hierarchical with embedded switches or switch chips, allowing one root port to interface with multiple endpoints (such as storage devices, Ethernet cards, and display drivers). While the introduction of PCIe 6.0 at 64GT/s helped to increase the bandwidth available for storage applications with minimal or no increase in latency, the lack of coherency s... » read more