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New PCI Express Connectivity Solutions Now Available from SIIG!
(Fremont, California; July 6, 2005) SIIG, the market leader in I/O connectivity products (including Serial ATA and Ultra ATA Controllers, FireWire , USB, serial/parallel I/O, etc.) is proud to announce the release of four new PCI Express connectivity products.Now Available
SIIG's initial release of PCI Express connectivity products include the CyberSerial Dual PCI-E (SIIG part # JJ-E20012-S1) adapter (with user selectable power output that can be configured as RS232, RS232 with 5V or RS232 with 12V), the FireWire 2-Port PCI-E (SIIG part # NN-E20011-S1) adapter (2 external 1394a 6-pin ports), the Serial ATA II PCI-E (SIIG part # SC-SAE012-S1) controller (2-channel Serial ATA II controller, up to 3.0Gbps transfer rate, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Non-zero offsets NCQ, and Out-of-order data delivery NCQ), and the Serial ATA II PCIe RAID (SIIG part # SC-SAER12) controller (same as the Serial ATA II PCIe with the added benefit of RAID 0& 1). All products will be built using a low-profile form factor 4-layer PCB board, conform to PCI-Express X1 slot design, and compliant with PCI Express Base Specification, Revision 1.0 & PCI Bus Power Management Interface Spec Rev 1.0.
Future PCI Express products are expected to include an expanded selection of serial port adapters, additional FireWire (800 & 400) adapters, Serial ATA II controllers (RAID & non-RAID), & much more.
About PCI Express
PCI Express was developed due to the increased bandwidth demand of new high-performance devices, exceeding the capabilities of traditional parallel buses such as PCI. PCI Express is a high-performance serial I/O interconnect designed to meet the bandwidth needs of these high-performance devices. Highlights of the features/specifications of PCI Express include:
- Compatible with established PCI software programming models, offering a smooth transition to new hardware and letting software to evolve to take advantage of PCI Express' advanced features.
- Bandwidth is scalable, 2.5 Gigabytes per second (per direction) at its initial signaling rate of 2.5GHz. Higher transfer rates in the future using higher frequency signaling technologies.
- Support for multiple interconnect widths via 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 32 lane configurations aggregated to match application bandwidth needs.
- Support for hot-plug/hot-swap add-in card and module devices.
- Advanced features such as Power Management, Quality of Service and others functions not available in other I/O architectures.
