FPGA Central

Gentlemen,

Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this. If someone can suggest
a more appropriate forum, I'd be quite grateful.

I'm looking for some help bringing up our first PCIe product. We're
using a Philips PX1011A PHY and a Xylinx Virtix-3 FPGA. We think we've
followed the layout specs in the Philips design notes to the letter,
but after two PCB revisions, we just can't get it to lock on. We've
got some urgent calls into Philips' apps engineers, but we haven't
heard back from them yet.

So, I'm looking for a contractor or a vendor who's dealt with this PHY
in particular, and knows what the gotchas are. If push comes to shove,
we can punt and go with an Intel or a TI part instead, but I'd like to
have someone who's been through the process of bringing up a PCIe
product before to help us out with this.

If this is up your alley, please drop me a note at jcr at mac dot com,
and let me know what you've done and what your rate is.

BTW, I really only want to hear from people with the skills. No
headhunters, please.

Thanks,

-jcr


John C. Randolph,
VP, Engineering
Stealth Imaging, LLC. <[email protected]>