Electronic Design

PCI Express Clock Generators, Buffers Prepare for Next Generation

PCIe has been around since 2004. It’s a high-speed serial computer expansion bus specification that replaces older PCI and PCI-X standards. PCIe currently supports the Generation 4 specification. In ...
EDN

PCI Express 3.0 needs reliable timing design

PCI Express (PCIe) is an important standard for chip-to-chip communications and serves as a standard for connecting motherboards to peripheral cards. It can be challenging, however, to implement the ...
Morningstar

Skyworks Unveils Industry’s First Clocks for Ethernet and PCI Express® With 18fs RMS Phase Jitter

Outputs can be independently configured for PCIe applications, with optional spread-spectrum clock generation for EMI reduction. Combining Ethernet, PCIe, and general-purpose clock generation in a ...
EDN

Multi-Clock Generator for PCI Express

The AK8160BV is a member of AKM’s low power and low jitter clock generator family designed for PCI Express generation 2.0. This device has one PLL with spread spectrum (SS) function and is enable to ...
Electronic Design

How Best to Measure SSC on Data

Spread spectrum clocking (SSC) is used in many computer interfaces such as PCI Express and Serial ATA to improve the EMI performance of the interface. It takes the form of frequency modulation (FM) of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Testing PCI Express 5.0 PHY Transmitter Performance Without Analysis Software

PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 silicon characterization across process, voltage, and temperature variations, is necessary for accelerating SoC designs. To measure key qualifying parameters, designers and test ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Air-Gap Covert Channel Attack On Spread Spectrum Modulated Clocks (IETR, Lab-STICC)

A new technical paper titled “Clock-to-Clock Modulation Covert Channel” was published by researchers at University of Rennes-INSA Rennes-IETR-UMR and University of South Brittany/Lab-STICC- UMR CNRS. ...