Microchip Technology, Inc. Switchtec™ Gen 4 PCIe® Switch Evaluation Kit PM42100-KIT

The PM42100-KIT Switchtec Gen 4 PCIe Switch Evaluation Kit is used to evaluate the Switchtec Gen 4 PCIe family of switches. The kit contains an evaluation board, cables and ChipLink Diagnostic Tools software. ChipLink is a convenient and easy-to-use Windows®/Mac®/Linux® -based GUI that provides access to all hardware functions and status information. The kit operates with a PCIe® host and supports the connection of multiple host entities to multiple endpoint devices. Additional Features PCIe Interface 1 ×16 edge connector for connection to a host 1 ×16 slot connector for add-in cards 16 ×4 PCIe OCuLink connectors to provide flexibility for a host or an end-point connection PCIe Clock Interface Common reference clock with or without Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) Separate Reference Clock No SSC (SRNS) Separate Reference Clock With Independent SSC (SRIS) Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPI) 2 quad SPI buses 128 Mb on-board SPI Flash for bootup and initialization Peripheral I/O Interfaces 11 two-wire (TWI)/SMBus interfaces 128-Kbps SEEPROM for storage and PCIe switch configuration TWI bus access and connectivity to the temperature sensor, fan controller, voltage monitor, GPIO and TWI expanders, PCIe connectors, OCuLink sideband and FPGA 110 GPIOs with 3 dedicated as GPIOs; 106 GPIOs are multiplexed to provide TWI, SPI, SGPIO, Ethernet and UART interfaces UART access using USB type B and 3-pin connector header 14-pin EJTAG connector header for Green Hills Software probe connectivity (PSX only) 10/100 Mbps Ethernet supporting MII and RMII FPGA Functionality Drive board status LEDs Monitor interrupts from I/O expanders and PCIe OCuLink cables Control and monitor power regulator output Manage board and switch reset Power Supply 0.82V and 1.8V power rails supplied by on-board regulators PCIe switch sense points for monitoring and measuring power rail voltages 12V power provided through 8-pin CPU power connector or 6-pin PCIe connector or PCIe edge connector (add-in card) ChipLink Diagnostic Tools Features Access to registers in the PCIe switch Configuration of high-speed analog settings for signal integrity evaluation Monitoring of status and mode indicators Kit Requirements (Supplied Separately) - Required for operation of the kit and must be supplied separately: Personal computer running Windows, Linux, or Mac OS ATX 750 W power supply, 1 × 6-pin PCIe connect and one 8-pin CPU power connector (we recommend a Corsair CX750M ATX power supply) Optional (Supplied Separately) NVMe/PCIe SSD High-speed oscilloscope for performing eye-diagram measurements Jitter analyzer for analyzing jitter components For PSX only: Green Hills MULTI® development environment and EJTAG debugger for firmware development Optional Evaluation Kit Adapter Cards (Purchased Separately) ADP_EDGEG4: PCIe Gen 4 1x16 Edge to 4 x 4 OcuLink adapter card (Converts a x16 Edge PCIe interface to an OCuLink PCIe interface or vice-versa) ADP_SLOTG4: PCIe Gen 4 1x16 slot to 4 x 4 OcuLink adapter card (Converts a x16 slot PCIe interface to an OCuLink PCIe interface or vice-versa)