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Switchtec PFX Fanout 48xG3 PCIe Switch
Key Features
• * Most flexible per port bifurcation in the industry
• * 48 lanes, 24 ports and 24 NTBs
• * 12 virtual switch partitions for efficient use of system resources
• * Advanced error containment and surprise-plug and unplug support to prevent system crashes
• * Advanced diagnostics and debug features to identify, diagnose and fix problems
• * SRIS for cabled PCIe and lower cost system designs
• * High Performance Non-Blocking Switch
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• + Up to 174 GB/s switching capacity
• + Logical Non-Transparent (NT) interconnect allows for larger topologies (up to 256 masters)
• + Supports 1+1 and N+1 failover mechanisms
• + NT address translation using direct windows and multiple sub-windows per BAR
• + Supports multicast groups per port
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• * Error Containment
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• + Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports
• + Downstream Port Containment (DPC) on all downstream ports
• + Poisoned TLP blocking
• + 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
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• + 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
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• + Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) generator for testing and debugging of links and error handling
• + Real-time eye capture
• + Any-to-any port mirroring for debug purposes
• + External loopback at PHY and TLP layers
• + Errors, statistics, performance, and TLP latency counters
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• * Peripheral I/O Interfaces
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• + Up to 11 Two-Wire Interfaces (TWIs) with SMBus support
• + Up to 2 SFF-8485-compliant SGPIO ports
• + Up to 109 parallel GPIO pins
• + Up to 4 UARTs
• + JTAG and EJTAG interface
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• * High-speed I/O
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• + PCIe Gen 3 8 GT/s
• + Supports PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration
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• * Power Management
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• + Active State Power Management (ASPM)
• + Software controlled power management
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• * Chiplink Diagnostic Tools
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• + 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
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• + PM5461-KIT—PSX/PFX 96/80/64xG3, 1-Slot, 16 HD Evaluation Kit
Description
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The Switchtec PM8533 PFX Gen 3 fanout PCIe switch is the industry's highest density, lowest power, high reliability PCIe Base Specification 3.1-compliant switch for data center, communications, defense, and industrial applications. With simple hardware configuration and advanced diagnostics and debug capabilities, the PM8533 enable PCIe solutions for a wide variety of systems from JBOFs (Just a Bunch Of Flash) to general purpose applications requiring low power and high-reliability PCIe switching.
