Built-in circuit firm Montage Know-how has launched its CXL 3.1 Reminiscence eXpander Controller (MXC), which is at the moment being examined by a few of its key clients, together with AMD and Intel. The controller is compliant with the CXL 3.1 Kind 3 specification – the newest model of the CXL interconnect customary – and helps CXL.mem and CXL.io protocols. Montage Know-how says it delivers low-latency reminiscence enlargement, high-bandwidth efficiency, and polling appropriate for next-gen information centre servers.
The CXL 3.1 MXC is constructed on a PCIe 6.2 bodily layer interface and may obtain information switch charges of 64 GT/s (x8). It affords versatile configuration with multi-width and multi-rate assist, permitting it to be break up by way of two x4 ports. It measures 25 mm x 25 mm, and helps EDSFF (E3.S) and PCIe add-in card (AIC) kind components frequent in high-performance computing environments; servers, all-flash arrays, and edge computing platforms. The chip has a dual-channel DDR5 reminiscence controller that may function at speeds of as much as 8000 MT/s (million transfers per second).
The controller consists of twin RISC-V microprocessors appearing as an Software Processing Unit (APU) and Safety Processing Unit (SPU) to assist system administration. The system can alter DDR and CXL reminiscence assets on the fly, handle safety in-hardware, and reply to system occasions in real-time.
A number of communication interfaces are additionally featured, together with SMBus/I3C – for sensor and management information, SPI – for high-speed communication with different chips, and JTAG – used to check and debug {hardware}. The chip can carry out firmware updates with out complicated processes.
Raghu Nambiar, Company Vice President, Knowledge Heart Ecosystems and Options at AMD, mentioned, “CXL Reminiscence enlargement and tiering is a foundational expertise for the way forward for information centre computing, particularly in enabling heterogeneous reminiscence architectures.”
Intel’s Ronak Singhal mentioned the CXL 3.1 MXC is a “significant step towards scalable reminiscence architectures and an expanded CXL ecosystem.”
With the demand for cloud useful resource pooling rising, customary reminiscence architectures can expertise scalability and bandwidth bottlenecks. With CXL reminiscence pooling, Montage Know-how goals to assist clients use reminiscence extra successfully.
Stephen Tai, President at Montage Know-how, mentioned the CXL 3.1 MXC “accelerates the trade’s adoption of disaggregated reminiscence architectures by standards-based options, [as a] basis for reminiscence pooling and sharing in next-generation computing infrastructure.”
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