2025 EE Times AI+ Tech Forum

Many products in the market continue to deploy on PCIe® 5.0 platforms, while increasing attention is being placed on the validation stage to ensure product performance, credibility, and stronger market competitiveness. To help customers accelerate validation processes without being limited by time or location, iPasslabs, a PCI-SIG® Authorized Test Lab, is now expanding its official compliance capability to support PCIe® 5.0 at 32.0 GT/s. Since becoming the first PCI-SIG® Authorized Test Lab (ATL) in Asia in 2025, iPasslabs has provided official compliance testing services for PCIe® 4.0 and PCIe® 5.0 up to 16.0 GT/s. We are now further expanding our capability to support PCIe® 5.0 32.0 GT/s official compliance testing, helping customers move more smoothly from Pre-test to Official Compliance Testing.  At the same time, PCIe® 6.0 has officially entered the compliance era. Starting from PCI-SIG® Compliance Test Workshop #140, PCIe® 6.0 products are eligible to register for official compliance testing. However, before official certification, Pre-test has become more critical than ever. With the introduction of 64.0 GT/s PAM4 signaling, PCIe® 6.0 significantly increases validation complexity and much higher demands on Signal Integrity, Interoperability, and testing know-how. With extensive experience supporting customer DUTs during official compliance validation and hands-on expertise gained from on-site participation in PCI-SIG® Compliance Workshops, iPasslabs helps customers reduce development risk, improve compliance readiness, and accelerate time-to-market.

Driven by the rapid advancement of AI, data centers are evolving in high-performance “Compute Factories” that power generative AI, large-scale model training, and high-speed inference. As networking architectures continue to evolve from 400G and 800G toward 1.6T, high-speed interconnect technologies have become a critical factor in determining overall computing efficiency. Ensuring interoperability, signal integrity, and system reliability across high-speed networking environments is now a key challenge for the industry. iPasslabs officially joined the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) ecosystem this year and participated in the 43rd InfiniBand™ and RoCE Plugfest in June, marking an important milestone toward Scale-Out Networking validation technologies. Moving forward, iPasslabs will continue to actively engage in technical forums, plugfests, and standards collaboration related to InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet, and next-generation Scale-Out Network architectures, accelerating the development of advanced validation capabilities for AI networking infrastructure. Years of expertise in high-speed interface validation, iPasslabs delivers comprehensive solutions covering Ethernet, InfiniBand, optica Communication, and electrical integration tests. From simulation and analysis, pre-test services, to official interoperability validation, iPasslabs helps customers reduce design risks, overcome high-speed transmission challenges, and accelerate time-to-market. As an active member and working group partners of the IEEE, PCI-SIG®, and IBTA, iPasslabs is deeply involved in these technical standards and ecosystem collaboration. By closely following the latest specifications and testing requirements, the company provides trusted, one-stop services aligned with evolving industry demands. In the global race to build AI infrastructure, iPasslabs is committed to becoming the industry's most trusted high-speed interconnect validation partner, empowering customers to meet the challenges of networking and AI data centers. As an active member and working group partners of the IEEE, PCI-SIG®, and IBTA, iPasslabs is deeply involved in these technical standards and ecosystem collaboration. By closely following the latest specifications and testing requirements, the company provides trusted, one-stop services aligned with evolving industry demands. In the global race to build AI infrastructure, iPasslabs is committed to becoming the industry's most trusted high-speed interconnect validation partner, empowering customers to meet the challenges of networking and AI data centers.