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G eneral Information The PLX PEX 8616 RDK is a Rapid Development Kit based on the PEX 8616, a 16-lane, 4-port PCI Express Gen 2 switch. The PEX 8616 RDK provides a complete hardware and software development platform that facilitates getting designs up and running quickly, lowering risk and reducing time-to-market. This RDK allows the upstream port of the PEX 8616 to be directly plugged into a system board’s x8 or x16 PCI Express connector, or...
P EX 8616 RDK PCI Express Interfaces The PEX 8616 RDK is designed around the PEX 8616, a 4-port, 16-lane Gen 2 switch, and is based on the form factor specified in the PCI Express CEM 2.0 Specification. The PEX 8616 RDK PCI offers four PCI Express (PCIe) interfaces: a x8 PCI Express Card Edge connector (P1), two x16 PCI Express Edge Card connectors (SLOT 1 and SLOT 2;...
Configuration Module Receptacle CM1 is a 200-pin high-speed Mezzanine Connector. It is soldered on the PCB of PEX 8616 RDK. It directly connects to lane 4 to lane 7 of the PEX 8616, lane 4 to lane 7 of PCI Express card edge connector P1, lane 0 to lane 3 of PCI Express Edge Card Connector SLOT 2, and lane 0 to lane 3 of 4x mini-SAS connector IP1.
CM1 receptacle, the PEX 8616’s lanes 4-7 are routed to Connector P1 and become the upper four lanes of Port 0’s x8 link. By default, the PEX 8616 RDK sets this port to be the x8 link upstream port.
R eference Clock Circuitry 1 0 B The PEX 8616 RDK reference clock circuitry contains a one-to-four differential clock fan out buffer (U2) from SpectraLinear (CY28400-2). The clock fan out buffer supports four 100 MHz PCI Express reference clocks with the option for constant frequency and spread spectrum outputs.
C bus and external I/O expander devices. The PEX 8616 RDK implements Hot-Plug control circuitry for SLOT 1 and SLOT 2. SLOT 1 uses the on-chip parallel Hot-Plug controller while SLOT 2 uses the Serial Hot-Plug control capability through the I C and I/O expander.
S erial Hot-Plug Controller Circuits 3 7 B PEX 8616 RDK also implements the serial Hot-Plug controller circuitry to PCI Express SLOT 2. By default, the RDK is configured to bypass the serial Hot-Plug controller. Note that additional configuration on the PEX 8616 might be required in order to use the serial Hot-Plug controller.
S erial EEPROM 1 3 B The PEX 8616 RDK contains an 8-pin DIP socket for a serial EEPROM (U17). The board is populated with a blank On Semi CAT25080LI-G 32-Kbit device. The CAT25080LI-G device can directly interface to the PEX8616.
1 5 B The PEX 8616 RDK has two sources of DC power. The first source is the card edge connector (P1). The x8 connector provides up to 2.1A at 12V and 3.0A at 3.3V from the PCI Express edge card connector it plugs in. The power from P1 is intended to power the PEX 8616, PCI Express connector SLOT 2, and the on-board electronic components.
3 8 B The PEX 8616 RDK provides up to four green color link status LEDs, D17 to D20, to indicate its port 0, 1, 5 and 6 link states. LED on, off, and three blinking patterns cover all five states of port link status. (See...
4 1 B The PEX 8616 RDK provides voltage level monitoring circuit to monitor the 1 volt and 2.5 volt power to the PEX 8616. The circuit contains an Intersil multiple voltage supervisory ISL6132, two bi-color LEDs, D10 and D11, and various value resistors.
D IP Switches 1 9 B The PEX 8616 RDK contains nine user controllable DIP switches (SW1-SW8) for selecting the slot ID for the serial Hot-Plug, enable/disable Hot-Plug signals, enable/bypass the serial Hot-Plug and parallel Hot-Plug, upstream port select, port configuration, NT upstream port select, I C address settings and test mode settings.
Serial Hot-Plug Controller Attention Button (S2) The PEX 8616 RDK provides a manual switch S2 for the attention button to the serial Hot-Plug circuit. When pushed and released, the switch generates an active low pulse to the Attention Button Input of the serial Hot-Plug controller.
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RX3n_IP1 TX3n_IP1 TX3- RX3- FCI84517_10x20 FCI84517_10x20 I_PASS_26CKT_75783_0036 I_PASS_26CKT_75783_0036 PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 www.plxtech.com www.plxtech.com www.plxtech.com...
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SW DIP-2 SW DIP-2 Default Setting of SW2: 1: off (disable MRL#_S) 2: off (disable Serial HP) PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 www.plxtech.com...
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RX39n RX39n MICTOR 38 MICTOR 38 REXT_4 PEX8616AA_19X19 PEX8616AA_19X19 PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 www.plxtech.com www.plxtech.com...
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TP1 marks with 1.0V 2.5VCC TP3 marks with 2.5V TP2 marks with GND TP4 marks with GND PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. PLX TECHNOLOGY, INC. 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 870 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085...
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