Parade Technologies has announced the release of four new linear redriver integrated circuits (ICs) for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 6 interfaces, targeting high-speed data center, server, and storage cabling for AI scale-up environments. The new PS8592, PS8594, PS8596, and PS8598 redrivers are designed to boost copper channel reach and deliver low latency and reduced power consumption in demanding hyperscale and enterprise data center environments, according to Parade Technologies.

The PCIe Gen 6 redrivers offer programmable equalization boosts up to 18 dB and operate from a single supply. The PS8594, PS8598, and PS8596 devices use Parade’s Speed Migration Path (PSMP) approach, which matches the Intel PCIe 6.0 standard ball map to support simplified high-speed PCB routing and evaluation between PCIe retimers and Parade’s linear redrivers. The series maintains compatibility with all previous PCIe specifications for flexibility in a range of motherboard, backplane, add-in card, and cable applications.

Parade says the new devices are designed to support high-performance ASIC serializer/deserializer (SerDes) requirements, with enhanced linearity to enable clean link equalization and minimize latency and power draw. The PS8592 is an eight-channel, channel-based device purpose-built for AI cable optimization, allowing independent placement at both ends of a bi-directional link.

The PS8592 is provided in a 5.2 mm x 10.5 mm, 136-ball ball grid array (BGA) package and is optimized for high-speed cable scenarios. The standard PSMP-compatible lane redrivers include the PS8594 (8.9 mm x 8.4 mm, 139-ball BGA), PS8598 (8.9 mm x 13.2 mm, 211-ball BGA), and PS8596 (8.9 mm x 22.8 mm, 354-ball BGA). Samples are available now, as reported by Parade Technologies.

“Datacenters are showing growing concerns around the I/O power and latency necessary to support the massive AI-LLM ‘scale-up’ vs ‘scale-out’,” said Jimmy Chiu, Executive VP of Marketing at Parade Technologies.

Source: Parade Technologies