PM50036B1-FEI [Microchip]

The Switchtec PFX 36xG5 Fanout PCIe® Switch is high-reliability PCIe switch supporting  36 lanes, 20 ports and hot- and surprise-plug controllers for each port.  This switch features advanced error containment and comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities, a wide breadth of I/O interfaces and an integrated MIPS processor.

Typical applications for the PFX family include data center equipment, defense and industrial servers, workstations, test equipment, video production and broadcasting equipment, cellular infrastructure, access networks, metro networks and core networking.

High-performance, ultra-low latency cut-through DMA engine
• Up to 64 DMA channels

Error Containment
• Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports
• Downstream Port Containment (DPC) on all downstream ports
• 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

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
• External loopback capability
• Errors, statistics, performance and TLP latency counters

Peripheral I/O Interfaces
• 8 Two-Wire Interfaces (TWIs) with SMBus support
• SFF-8485-compliant SGPIO ports
• Up to 103 parallel GPIO pins
• Up to 4 UARTs
• Up to 2 100/GE MAC port (RMII/GMII)
• JTAG and EJTAG interface

High-Speed I/O
• PCIe Gen 5 32 GT/s
• Supports PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration

Power Management
• Active State Power Management (ASPM)
• Software-controlled power management

ChipLink Diagnostic Tools
• 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)

Evaluation Kit
• The PM52100-KIT Switchtec Gen 5 PCIe Switch Evaluation Kit is a device evaluation environment that supports multiple interfaces.