Google contributed the Advanced PCIe Enclosure Compatible (APEC) Form Factor to OCP in 2024. APEC (Advanced PCIe Enclosure Compatible) is an electrical mechanical interface standard intended to advance the PCIe CEM standard with increased PCIe lane count, bandwidth, power, and management capability for use cases that need more advanced capabilities. This session will go deeper on what progress we have made, including the test methodology and challenges, and also our next steps to keep this moving forward. To make this happen, Google has developed the end-to-end testing modules to qualify the signals at both PCIe root complex and endpoint based on APEC. We will guide you through how the test module was designed from SI and layout routing considerations toward the goal of test efficiency and automation.
