SG2010 PCI to StarFabric Bridge

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SG2010 PCI to StarFabric Bridge

Dolphin's SG2010 PCI-StarFabric Bridge provides an interface between PCI and StarFabric - translating PCI traffic into serial frame format for transmission across StarFabric. By connecting the bridge's StarFabric ports to other bridges, or to SG1010 StarFabric switches, engineers can design fabric topologies to increase bandwidth, reliability, and the number of endpoints or slots. The PCI port supports a 32 or 64 bit PCI bus and operates at 33 or 66 MHz.

  • Four Classes of Service
  • Bandwidth reservation available for real time traffic
  • Eight general-purpose I/O pins with accessible registers
  • LED indicators for each differential pair
  • Three routing methods
  • Supports software generated StarFabric Special Frames
  • IEEE standard 1149.1 JTAG interface
  • Supports software-generated PCI transactions
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Dolphin's SG2010 PCI-StarFabric Bridge provides an interface between PCI and StarFabric - translating PCI traffic into serial frame format for transmission across StarFabric.  By connecting the bridge's StarFabric ports to other bridges, or to SG1010 StarFabric switches, engineers can design fabric topologies to increase bandwidth, reliability, and the number of endpoints or slots. The PCI port supports a 32 or 64 bit PCI bus and operates at 33 or 66 MHz.

Each StarFabric link can simultaneously transmit and receive at 2.5 Gbps. A standard link is made up of four aggregated 622 Mbps LVDS differential pairs in each direction. Two 2.5 Gbps full-duplex links can also be bundled to create a 5 Gbps full-duplex link.

The SG2010 supports three routing methods. Address routing, which allows PCI designs to be transparently migrated to StarFabric, supports PCI traffic over the fabric without requiring any software development. Existing PCI designs can quickly take advantage of StarFabric's performance and scalability through address routing, and can further enhance performance, features and reliability by moving to native StarFabric routing methods at a future time.  Path routing and multicast routing are StarFabric native routing methods that introduce advanced features like redundancy through failover, Quality of Service, security mechanisms and multi-processor fabrics. Dolphin provides software tools and libraries to take full advantage of these advanced features.

KEY PRODUCT FEATURES

Scalability and Performance
  • Two StarFabric interface links at 2.5 Gbps, full duplex
  • Links can bundle to create a single 5.0 Gbps full-duplex point-to-point link
  • Supports either an 8 channel, 43-bit wide local address space or a 50-bit global address space
  • Compatibility
  • Three routing methods:
    • Address routing
    • Path routing
    • Multi-cast routing
  • Standard PCI addressing supports 100% PCI software compatibility
  • Design complies with the PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2, the PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture Specification Revision 1.1, and the CompactPCI Hot-Swap Specification
  • Physical layer interface complies with the IEEE 1596.3 and TIA/EIA-644 Low-Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) standards
  • Quality of Service
  • Credit-based flow control: Path-based (next turn) credits and Class of Service (CoS) Credits
  • Credit-based flow control guarantees forward progress through the fabric
  • Separate buffer space for each class at each node
  • Bandwidth reservation available for real time traffic
  • Four Classes of Service with separate buffering for each. Supported classes are:
    • asynchronous
    • isochronous
    • multicast
    • high priority traffic classes
  • Design limits head-of-line blocking
  • Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
  • Link-by-link CRC checking on all traffic
  • Fault detection, notification and isolation
  • Redundant path routing capability, with optional automatic fail-over
  • Path protection capability for secure operation
  • Hot-pluggable links
  • CPCI Hot-Swap support
  • Additional Features
  • Supports operation as a root or a leaf node in a StarFabric
  • PCI bus arbiter supporting up to 9 bus masters
  • Flexible event dispatch functionality either locally or remotely
  • In-band PCI interrupt routing with legacy "swizzle" based on device number
  • Supports software-generated PCI transactions
  • Supports software-generated StarFabric Special Frames
  • Supports eight semaphores with six operations per semaphore
  • SROM and FlashROM interface for register pre-load and power up configuration
  • IEEE standard 1149.1 JTAG interface
  • Eight general-purpose I/O pins with accessible registers
  • LED indicators for each differential pair
  • Feature Description
    Core Power Supply Vdd = 1.5V +/-5%
    I/O Power Supply Vdd = 3.3V +/-5%
    Operating Temperature -40 to 85 Degrees C
    Storage Temperature -55 to 125 Degrees C
    Power Dissapation 2.15W maximum
    Package 272 PBGA

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