Case Study: Solarflare achieves first-pass silicon success and accelerated time-to-market with Synopsys DesignWare IP for PCI Express 3.0

Solarflare Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success for 10/40G Network Controllers with DesignWare IP for PCI Express 3.0

Solarflare, a leading provider of low-latency 10/40GbE networking hardware and software for cloud, virtualization, electronic trading and big data, needed compliant PCI Express 3.0 IP with SR-IOV, flexible interfaces for multiple SoC variants, and a vendor able to deliver custom IP extensions quickly to meet aggressive time-to-market and reliability targets.

Solarflare chose Synopsys DesignWare Controller IP for PCI Express 3.0 with SR-IOV; the mature, easy-to-integrate IP and responsive Synopsys support enabled first-pass silicon success, significantly accelerated time-to-market, met performance and schedule goals, and positioned the company to reuse DesignWare IP in future designs.

Solarflare

Derek Roberts

Vice President of Hardware Architecture