PI7C9X2G303EL (NRND)

Description

Similar to the role of PCI/PCIX Bridge in PCI/PCIX bus architecture, the function of PCI Express (PCIE) Switch is to expand the connectivity to allow more end devices to be reached by host controllers in PCIE serial interconnect architecture. The 3-lane PCIe Switch is in 3-port type configuration. It provides users the flexibility to expand or fan-out the PCI Express lanes based on their application needs.

In the PCI Express Architecture, the PCIE Switch forwards posted and non-posted requests, and completion packets in either downstream or upstream direction concurrently as if a virtual PCI Bridge is in operation on each port. By visualizing the port as a virtual Bridge, the Switch can be logically viewed as two-level cascaded multiple virtual PCI-to-PCI Bridges, where one upstream-port Bridge sits on all downstream-port Bridges. Similar to a PCI Bridge during enumeration, each port is given a unique bus number, device number, and function number by the initiating software. The bus number, device number, and function number are combined to form a destination ID for each specific port. In addition to that, the memory-map and IO address ranges are exclusively allocated to each port as well. After the software enumeration is finished, the packets are routed to the dedicated port based on the embedded address or destination ID. To ensure the packet integrity during forwarding, the Switch is not allowed to split the packets to multiple small packets or merge the received packets into a large transmit packet. Also, the IDs of the requesters and completers are kept unchanged along the path between ingress and egress port.

Feature(s)

• 3-lane PCI Express® Gen 2 Switch with 3 PCI Express ports
• Supports “Cut-through”(Default) as well as “Store and Forward” mode for packet switching
• Peer-to-peer switching between any two downstream ports
• 150 ns typical latency for packet routed through Switch without blocking
• Integrated reference clock for downstream ports
• Strapped pins configurable with optional EEPROM or SMBus
• SMBus interface support
• Compliant with System Management (SM) Bus, Version 1.0
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification Revision 2.1
• Compliant with PCI Express CEM Specification Revision 2.0
• Compliant with PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture Specification Revision 1.2
• Compliant with Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) Specification
• Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
  。 Supports Data Poisoning and End-to-End CRC
  。 Advanced Error Reporting and Logging
  。 IEEE 1149.1 JTAG interface support
• Advanced Power Saving
  。 Empty downstream ports are set to idle state to minimize power consumption
• Link Power Management
  。 Supports L0, L0s, L1, L2, L2/L3Ready and L3 link power states
  。 Active state power management for L0s and L1 states
• Device State Power Management
  。 Supports D0, D3Hot and D3Cold device power states
  。 3.3V Aux Power support in D3Cold power state
• Port Arbitration: Round Robin (RR), Weighted RR and Time-based Weighted RR
• Extended Virtual Channel capability
  。 Two Virtual Channels (VC) and Eight Traffic Class (TC) support
  。 Disabled VCs’ buffer is assigned to enabled VCs for resource sharing
  。 Independent TC/VC mapping for each port
  。 Provides VC arbitration selections: Strict Priority, Round Robin (RR) and Programmable Weighted RR
• Supports Isochronous Traffic
  。 Isochronous traffic class mapped to VC1 only
  。 Strict time based credit policing
• Supports up to 512-byte maximum payload size
• Programmable driver current and de-emphasis level at each individual port
• Support Access Control Service (ACS) for peer-to-peer traffic
• Support Address Translation (AT) packet for SR-IOV application
• Support OBFF and LTR
• Low Power Dissipation: 650 mW typical in L0 normal mode
• Industrial Temperature Range: -40o to 85oC
• Totally Lead-Free & Fully RoHS Compliant (Notes 1 & 2)
• Halogen and Antimony Free. “Green” Device (Note 3)
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• 136-pin aQFN 8mm x 8mm package