XpressConnect™ Retimers provide best-in-class signal conditioning for PCI Express® 5.0 and Compute Express Link™ 1.1/2.0 interconnects and support Intel's® PCIe 5.0 Retimer Supplemental Features and Standard BGA Footprint specification. XpressConnect Retimers triple the reach of PCIe Gen 5 electrical signals with minimal impact to latency to enable the most demanding computational workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, communication systems and high-performance computing applications.

XpressConnect Retimers support x1/x2/x4/x8/x16 bifurcation to connect to a wide range of PCIe and CXL devices. XpressConnect Retimers delivers the industry's lowest latency retimer solution with over 80% lower latency than the PCIe specification to maximize performance for PCIe and CXL devices. XpressConnect Retimers includes comprehensive diagnostics features, multiple configuration options, a simple management interface and low power to reduce total cost of ownership during design, bring-up, validation and production.

XpressConnect Retimers are ideal for enterprise servers, PCIe NVMe enclosures, all Flash NVMe arrays, PCIe fabrics, CXL accelerator/memory solutions, and other applications that require low latency, low power and secure PCIe and CXL retiming. 

• PCIe and CXL Features
• Intel PCIe 5.0 Retimer Supplemental Features and Standard BGA Footprint Specification
• PCIe Express 3.0/4.0/5.0
• Compute Express Link 1.1/2.0
• >80% lower latency than PCIe specification
• Bifurcation/link subdivision (x1/x2/x4/x8/x16)
• Automatic detection of pseudo port orientation
• Lane reversal and lane polarity inversion
• Passive copper and active optical cable support
• Receiver detection bypass
• Diagnostics and Debug
• ChipLink Diagnostics Tool compatible with Windows®, Linux® and Mac® OS X
• Real-time eye capture
• LTSSM state machine logs and triggers
• PCIe link EQ logs
• Pattern generation, detection and error injection
• Receiver lane margining
• PCIe loopback
• Real-time error injection
• PHY-level error counters and TX/RX settings
• Management and Configuration
• Dynamic configuration via BMC to SMBus
• Static configuration through SMBus, I2C EEPROM
• Pin straps to select configuration settings
• Status pins for visual indication of device status
• Analog preset tuning
• Clocking and Power
• Common, SRIS and SRNS clocking
• One input and one output PCIe reference clock
• Asynchronous upstream/downstream clocking
• L1 PM sub states (Link power management)
• Security
• Embedded security features