Pericom Expands PCI Express Offering with High Performance PCI-X Bridge
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Pericom Expands PCI Express Offering with High Performance PCI-X Bridge.
New Bridge IC offers customers industry first combination of performance, size, power, and features.
The company's new PI7C9X130 PCIe to PCI-X Bridge IC is the latest addition to its PCISIG certified PCI Express Bridge Family and addresses the needs of a wide range of applications, including blade and motherboard based servers, HBA and NIC cards, data storage, switch and router control planes, industrial PCs, multi-function printers and print servers, test equipment, data acquisition, and telecom.
Pericom's PCI Express product offering is the most comprehensive in the industry, including Bridges, Packet Switches, PHY, Re-Drivers, Signal Switches and Clock/Timing solutions.
This industry first feature set combination provides significant cost, board space, and power savings advantages to new customer design and meets the performance expectations for these next generation PCIe platforms; the new PCIe to PCI-X Bridge is ideal for high performance applications.
The PI7X9X130 PCIe to PCI-X Bridge supports a single x4 PCIe port to single PCI-X domain. The Bridge is fully reversible, offers non-transparent as well as transparent mode, operates in either 133MHz PCI-X, or 66MHz PCI modes, and is fully compliant to the latest PCISIG PCIe revision 1.1 and PCI-X Bridge 2.0a specifications. Industry unique features include 5 Volt tolerant I/O pins, 512 Byte capable payload size, 6 PCI/PCI-X Masters, and 7 GPIO pins.
As with all Pericom PCI Express family Bridge products, the PI7C9X130 is designed to offer the lowest latency under high performance operating conditions, user 'tunable' registers to optimize transfer rates, and includes optional as well as standard PCIe power management states. At 17x17mm, the 256 BGA Pb free package offers customers the smallest PCIe to PCI-X Bridge footprint in the industry, with no heatsink required across the standard commercial operating temperature range.
Pricing and Availability
The PI7C9X130 customer evaluation platform, available in both forward or reverse mode options, and small prototype quantities are available now. Production quantities are scheduled for 1Q07. List price is $20.95 for 10Ku quantities. More detailed pricing, availability and applications support data is available from Avnet Memec.
Features
- Fully Reversible
- Forward - PCIe primary, PCIX secondary
- Reverse - PCIX primary, PCIe secondary
- Maximum Payload Size - Up to 512 bytes
- Transparent and Non-transparent mode
- GPIO Support
- 7 dedicated bi-directional
- When external arbiter is used: 4 additional outputs / 4 additional inputs
- Masquerade support - User defined vendor, device, revision, subsystem device, and subsystem vendor ID
- Large 8KB Buffer: 2KB for reads & 2KB for writes per port
- 17 x 17mm, 256-pin PBGA, 1mm Ball Pitch
PCI Express Features
- Virtual Isochronous Support
- Upstream TC 1 - 7 generation
- Downstream TC 1 - 7 mapping
- 16-bit CRC, LCRC (32-bit)
- ECRC and Advanced Error Reporting
- Error Forwarding (Data Poisoning)
- Polarity Toggle
- VDDAUX Support (1.8V)
- Hot Plug Support
PCI/PCIX Features
- Two Level Internal Arbitration - Support for up to 6 bus masters
- 3.3V Signaling with 5V I/O Tolerance
- PME# Support
- 16-bit Address Decode for VGA
- CLKRUN# Support
- VAUX Support (3.3V)
- Hot Plug Support
- Subsystem Device and Subsystem Vendor ID
- MSI and INT Support
- SM Bus - PHY, data link, network layer, PEC, ARP, etc.
- I2C Serial EEPROM Support