Aries Interop

Extending interoperability leadership with PCIe® 6.x testing

Enabling Seamless Plug-and-Play Interoperability

Reduce design challenges and accelerate time-to-market for AI servers

  • Rigorous testing of Aries Retimers with all major root complexes and 50+ endpoints
  • PCIe® robustness validated with varying channel insertion loss budgets in chip-to-chip, box-to-box, and rack-to-rack topologies
  • Extensive testing with  software suite for advanced Link, Fleet, and RAS telemetry and diagnostics
  • Cloud-Scale Interop Lab expands to Taiwan to facilitate closer collaboration with ODMs and accelerate AI platform deployments

 

Interop Bulletins

Systems and Test Suites Dedicated to Interop

Example Tests

PCIe® Loop Tests

  • Secondary Bus Reset
  • Forward Error Correct (FEC)
  • Link Retrain
  • EQ Redo
  • Speed Change
  • L1 PM
  • Warm Reboot
  • Low-power state (L0p)
  • Flow Control Unit (Flit)

Additional Tests

  • Hot Unplug/Plug
  • Power Cycle Tests
  • Lane Margining

Reflecting on 2024: Milestones and Momentum at Astera Labs

Astera Labs has just wrapped a milestone year! From a successful IPO on Nasdaq with the stock ticker ALAB to launching innovative new products to expanding our global footprint, 2024 has been a transformative year, strengthening our mission to eliminate bottlenecks in AI and cloud infrastructure with purpose-built connectivity solutions.Leading Semiconductor IPOs One of the biggest milestones…

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Optimizing Deep Learning Recommendation Models with AMD EPYC™ 9005 & Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers

By Michael Ocampo, Ecosystem Alliance Manager, Astera Labs, and Hasan Maruf, Server Systems Architect, AMD IntroductionRecommendation systems are widely used in a variety of today’s popular applications, such as those commonly used for video streaming, social media, advertisement delivery, and other online services to enhance the user experience, drive engagement, and increase sales….

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AI Demands Purpose-Built Solutions

Learn how Scorpio P-Series Fabric Switches maximize GPU utilization with unparalleled performance, reliability, and scaleAs AI infrastructure advances, the need for purpose-built connectivity becomes more pressing. General-purpose switches, initially designed for a wide range of applications, struggle to meet the demands of high-performance AI workloads, which require reliable, efficient,…

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Astera Labs Announces Conference Call to Review Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Results

SANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – Jan. 9, 2025 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will release its financial results for the fourth quarter 2024 after the close of market on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Astera Labs will host a corresponding conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific…

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Astera Labs Announces Financial Results for the Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2024

Record quarterly revenue of $113.1 million, up 47% QoQ and up 206% YoY Expanding market opportunities with new Scorpio Fabric Switches, driving higher dollar content in AI platformsSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – November 4, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure, today announced preliminary…

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Astera Labs Introduces New Portfolio of Fabric Switches Purpose-Built for AI Infrastructure at Cloud-Scale

Shipping in pre-production quantities, Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches deliver maximum system utilization and uptime for scale-out PCIe 6 connectivity and scale-up GPU clustering in AI serversSANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – October 8, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new…

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Astera Labs Announces Conference Call to Review Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

SANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – Oct. 2, 2024 – Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will release its financial results for the third quarter 2024 after the close of market on Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. Astera Labs will host a corresponding conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific…

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Interop Testing with Linux Operating Systems and Leo

Learn how Astera Labs is enabling the CXL ecosystem with software support to support disaggregated memory architectures. Astera Labs is working closely with operating system vendors to ensure robust compatibility with Linux environments.In its Cloud-Scale Interop Lab, Astera Labs has successfully completed interoperability with enterprise-grade Linux operating systems from Red Hat and S…

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PCIe Cabling Demo at OCP 2024

At OCP Global Summit 2024, Astera Labs demonstrated its full portfolio of PCIe cabling solutions. The live demos included Aries PCIe/CXL Smart Cable Modules with Active Electrical Cables and Active Optical Cables to deliver extended reach for rack-to-rack and row-to-row configurations.

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CXL Demo for DLRM at OCP Summit 2024

At OCP Global Summit, Astera Labs demonstrated the performance benefits of CXL memory for Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM). The demo featured a 5th Gen AMD EPYC processor, DDR5 memory from Samsung, and four Leo CXL Smart Memory Controllers. The demo showed that by doubling memory capacity and bandwidth in the system, there is about a 70% increase in performance for DLRM.

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