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Switchtec PFX 68xG5 Fanout PCIe® Switch
Key Features
- High-reliability PCIe: robust error containment, hot- and surprise-plug controllers per port, end-to-end data integrity protection, ECC protection on RAMs
- Comprehensive diagnostics and debugging: PCIe generator and analyzer, per-port performance and error counters, multiple loopback modes and real-time eye capture
- Significant power, cost and board space savings with support for 36 ports and 18 virtual switch partitions and flexible \*x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16 port bifurcation with no restrictions on configuring ports as either upstream or downstream, or on mapping ports to NTBs
- Secure system solution with boot image authentication
- DMA Controller
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• High-performance, ultra-low latency cut-through DMA engine* Up to 64 DMA channels
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• Error Containment* Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports
• * Downstream Port Containment (DPC) on all downstream ports
• * Completion Timeout Synthesis (CTS) to prevent an error state in an upstream host due to incomplete non-posted transactions
• * Hot- and surprise-plug controllers per port
• * GPIOs configurable for different cable/connector standards
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• PCIe Interfaces* Passive, managed and optical cables
• * SFF-8644, SFF-8643, SFF-8639, OCuLink and other connectors
• * SHPC-enabled slot and edge connectors
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• Diagnostics and Debug* Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) generator for testing and debugging of links and error handling
• * External loopback capability
• * Real-time eye capture
• * Errors, statistics, performance and TLP latency counters
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• Peripheral I/O Interfaces* 12 Two-Wire Interfaces (TWIs) with SMBus support
• * SFF-8485-compliant SGPIO ports
• * Up to 103 parallel GPIO pins
• * Up to 4 UARTs
• * Up to 2 100/GE MAC port (RMII/GMII)
• * JTAG and EJTAG interface
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• High-Speed I/O* PCIe Gen 5 32 GT/s
• * Supports PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration
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• Power Management* Active State Power Management (ASPM)
• * Software-controlled power management
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• ChipLink Diagnostic Tools* Extensive debug, diagnostics, configuration and analysis tools with an intuitive GUI
• * Access to configuration data, management capabilities and signal integrity analysis tools (such as real-time eye capture)
• * Connects to device over in-band PCIe or sideband signals (UART, TWI and EJTAG)
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• Evaluation Kit* The PM52100-KIT Switchtec Gen 5 PCIe Switch Evaluation Kit is a device evaluation environment that supports multiple interfaces.
Description
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The Switchtec PFX 68xG5 Fanout PCIe® Switch is high-reliability PCIe switch supporting 68 lanes, 36 ports and hot- and surprise-plug controllers for each port. This switch features advanced error containment and comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities, a wide breadth of I/O interfaces and an integrated MIPS processor.
Typical applications for the PFX family include data
center equipment, defense and industrial servers,
workstations, test equipment, video production and
broadcasting equipment, cellular infrastructure, access
networks, metro networks and core networking.