Integrated Device Technology Cable Evaluation Kit for 89HP0504P Repeater, 1-lane, 5Gbps PCIe2 89KTP0504P-QFN2

The 89HP0504P ( QFN2 ) Repeater cabling evaluation kit is a set of 2-boards designed to allow testing of PCIe2 cabled and mux/demux applications. There is a host interface board and endpoint interface board which can be connected via cable. The host side board is installed into a desktop PC , workstation or server. Using the Repeaters mux/demux function, one PCIe lane can be routed to either the PCIe cable connector, or to a PCIe slot connector. The endpoint side board also uses the Repeaters mux/demux feature to route the PCIe cable connection to either a 1-lane PCIe slot, or to a set of SMA connectors for attaching a lab instrument. A 1-lane adapter card such as Ethernet or USB3 can be plugged into the PCIe slot of either card, as determined by the muxing modes. A 4-lane, PCIe standard Molex iPass cable is needed for making the cable connections. Only 1-lane is actively used. Note that IDT does not include cables with this kit, which the user must provide at a length suitable for the application. Both boards provide a USB -to- I2C bridge circuit which allows convenient connection to a PC for accessing the Repeaters control and status registers via IDT ’s Repeater configuration utility for Windows ( GUI ). The Repeaters receiver, transmitter, and many other device configuration parameters can be adjusted with the GUI to provide optimum operating margins. An on-board serial- EEPROM allows configuration code to be stored and automatically reloaded into the repeater for later re-use.