Microsemi / Microchip Switchtec PFX PCIe Gen3 Fanout Switches

Microsemi / Microchip Switchtec PFX PCIe Gen3 Fanout Switches are compliant with PCIe Base Specification 3.1 and support up to 96 lanes, 24 virtual switch partitions, and 48 non-transparent bridges (NTBs). The series offers hot- and surprise-plug controllers for each port, advanced error containment, and comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities. Microsemi / Microchip Switchtec PFX PCIe Gen3 Fanout Switches provide simple hardware configuration and advanced diagnostics and debug capabilities. The switches enable PCIe solutions for a wide variety of systems, from flash-only Just a Bunch of Flash (JBOF) storage to general-purpose applications requiring low-power and high-reliability PCIe switching.

Features

  • High-performance non-blocking switches
    • Up to 174GB/s switching capacity
    • 96-, 80-, 64-, 48-, 32-, and 24-lane variants
    • Ports bifurcate from x2 to x16 lanes
    • Up to 48 NTBs assignable to any port
    • 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
  • Error containment
    • Advanced error reporting (AER) on all ports
    • Downstream port containment (DPC) on all downstream ports
    • Poisoned TLP blocking
    • Completion timeout synthesis (CTS) to prevent error state in upstream host due to incomplete non-posted transactions
    • Hot- and surprise-plug controllers per port
    • GPIOs configurable for different cable/connector standards
  • PCIe interfaces
    • Passive, managed, and optical cables
    • SFF-8644, SFF-8643, SFF-8639, OCuLink, and other connectors
    • SHPC-enabled slot and edge connectors
  • Diagnostics and debug
    • 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
  • Peripheral I/O interfaces
    • 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
  •  High-speed I/O
    • PCIe Gen3 8 GT/s
    • Supports PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration
  • Power management
    • Active-state power management (ASPM)
    • Software-controlled power management
  • Package options
    • FCBGA-650
    • FCBGA-1311

Application Example

Microsemi / Microchip Switchtec PFX PCIe Gen3 Fanout Switches
發佈日期: 2018-03-27 | 更新日期: 2024-07-03