The Switchtec PM8564 PFX-L Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen 3 fanout switch is a high reliability PCIe Base Specification 3.1-compliant switch supporting 64 lanes, 6 virtual switch partitions, 16 Non-Transparent Bridges (NTBs), hot- and surprise-plug controllers for each port, advanced error containment, and comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities.
Additional Features
Most flexible per port bifurcation in the industry
64 lanes
6 virtual switch partitions for efficient use of system resources
Logical non-transparent (NT) interconnect allows for larger topologies
Hot-plug controllers, end-to-end data integrity protection, high-quality, and low-power fifth generation SERDES
Supports 1+1 and N+1 failover mechanisms
NT address translation using direct windows and multiple sub-windows per BAR
Error Containment
Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports
Hot- plug controllers
GPIOs configurable for different cable/connector standards
PCIe Interfaces
Passive, managed, and optical cables
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
Any-to-any port mirroring for debug purposes
External loopback at PHY and TLP layers
Errors, statistics, performance, and TLP latency counters
Peripheral I/O Interfaces
Up to two (master/slave) two-wire interfaces (TWIs) with SMBus support
Up to 78 parallel GPIO pins
1 UART
1 QSPI with optional inline ECC
JTAG and EJTAG interface
High-speed I/O
PCIe Gen 3 8 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
PM5461-KIT—PSX/PFX 96/80/64xG3, 1-Slot, 16 HD Evaluation Kit
The Switchtec PM8564 PFX-L Fanout-Lite PCIe Gen 3 fanout switch is a high reliability PCIe Base Specification 3.1-compliant switch supporting 64 lanes, 6 virtual switch partitions, 16 Non-Transparent Bridges (NTBs), hot- and surprise-plug controllers for each port, advanced error containment, and comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities.
Additional Features
- Most flexible per port bifurcation in the industry
- 64 lanes
- 6 virtual switch partitions for efficient use of system resources
- Logical non-transparent (NT) interconnect allows for larger topologies
- Hot-plug controllers, end-to-end data integrity protection, high-quality, and low-power fifth generation SERDES
- Supports 1+1 and N+1 failover mechanisms
- NT address translation using direct windows and multiple sub-windows per BAR
- Error Containment
- Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports
- Hot- plug controllers
- GPIOs configurable for different cable/connector standards
- PCIe Interfaces
- Passive, managed, and optical cables
- 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
- Any-to-any port mirroring for debug purposes
- External loopback at PHY and TLP layers
- Errors, statistics, performance, and TLP latency counters
- Peripheral I/O Interfaces
- Up to two (master/slave) two-wire interfaces (TWIs) with SMBus support
- Up to 78 parallel GPIO pins
- 1 UART
- 1 QSPI with optional inline ECC
- JTAG and EJTAG interface
- High-speed I/O
- PCIe Gen 3 8 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
- PM5461-KIT—PSX/PFX 96/80/64xG3, 1-Slot, 16 HD Evaluation Kit