Integrated Device Technology Cable Evaluation Kit for 89HP0504PB Repeater, 1-lane, 5Gbps PCIe2 89KTP0504PBQFN2

The 89HP0504PB ( QFN -2) 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 DT 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. Both boards use simple switch configuration of the Repeaters equalization and transmitter parameters to enable very easy testing. A 4-lane, PCIe standard Molex iPass PCIe cable is needed for 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 tests.