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San Jose, California – August 3, 2015 – PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® controller IP solutions, today announced that its XpressRICH3-AXI PCIe® 3.0 IP is now fully compliant with the SATA Express™ standard. This breakthrough IP product leverages the popular and flexible PCIe interface while expanding it to deliver the benefits of SATA Express for design projects in the SSD space.  In order to achieve compliance with the SATA Express specification, PLDA added new features to its leading XpressRICH3-AXI soft IP that enabled compatibility with NVMe and AHCI. Integration of this capability delivers the two interfaces required for SATA Express implementation.

PLDA Announces New, PCIe-based Embedded Switch Design, Enhancing Embedded Platform Design and Efficiency

PLDA’s Embedded Switch Design dramatically reduces BOM costs and latency versus external switches, while optimizing power consumption and system performance 

SAN JOSE, CA – June 15, 2015 – PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® (PCIe) controller intellectual property (IP) solutions, today announced that Greenliant Systems has selected PLDA’s IP for its next-generation PCIe SSD controller. Greenliant, a leader in energy-efficient, highly secure and reliable solid state storage, controller and flash memory products, joins a growing number of companies using PLDA solutions.

PLDA enhanced XpressRICH3-AXI PCIe root complex controller enables ARM to deliver a robust high-performance ARM® Cortex®-A53 and A57 processor based PCIe subsystem

SAN JOSE, Calif. (June 2nd, 2015) — PLDA®, the industry leader in PCI Express® and interface IP solutions and ARM, the world’s leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier, announced the latest revision of the ARM Juno development platform that integrates the ARM big.LITTLE™ processor configuration of the ARM Cortex-A53 and A57 processors with the PLDA optimized PCIe Root Complex Controller.

PCIe 4.0 Controller and PHY Provide Complete IP Solution Enabling Early Adopters of the Emerging PCIe 4.0 Specification to Accelerate Product Development and Reduce Integration Risk. See a demonstration at The TSMC Symposium in San Jose on April 7^th.

Paris, France – February 10, 2015 - ReFLEX CES, a provider of Modified-Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) solutions and turnkey embedded systems, has added the hardware businesses of its sister companies in the PLDA Group, PLDA and Accelize. Effective from January 1^st 2015, FPGA-based boards and the SOM (System-on-Module) product lines have been transferred to the ReFLEX CES portfolio.

XpressRICH4 offers 16 GB/s performance, flexible configurations, SR-IOV, and advanced data protection 

PLDA, the company that designs and sells intellectual property (IP) cores and prototyping tools for ASICs and FPGAs, has optimized its ASIC intellectual property (IP) cores for the next generation of the ubiquitous and general purpose PCI Express® I/O specification, 4.0.  PLDA’s proven 3.0 architecture enables easy migration to PCIe 4.0, with no interface changes necessary, and preserves existing behavior for seamless integration.

By Philippe Legros, Product Design Architect, PLDA

Introduction

While server virtualization is being widely deployed in an effort to reduce costs and optimize data center resource usage, an additional key area where virtualization has an opportunity to shine is in the area of I/O performance and its role in enabling more efficient application execution.

PLDA XpressRICH3 PCIe controller and GUC PCIe PHY combo delivers a high performance, integrated solution, optimizing time-to-market

SAN JOSE, Calif. (June 9, 2014) — PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® IP solutions and GUC, the Flexible ASIC Leader^TM, today announced a combined PCIe Gen 3 Controller IP and PHY IP solution, optimized for the needs of the storage market. The combined PCIe 3.0 Controller/PHY solution is in initial production and has been incorporated into a demo board.