PEX 8614 General Features
o 12-lane PCI Express switch
- Integrated 5.0 GT/s SerDes
o Up to 12 configurable ports
o 19 x 19mm2 , 324-ball HSBGA
o Typical Power: 1.74 Watts
PEX 8614 Key Features
o Standards Compliant
- PCI Express Base Specification r2.0
(Backwards compatible with PCIe
r1.0a/1.1)
- PCI Power Management Spec r1.2
- Microsoft Vista Compliant
- Supports Access Control Services
- Dynamic link-width control
o High Performance
- Non-blocking internal architecture
- Full line rate on all ports
- Cut-Thru latency: 140ns
- 2KB max payload size
- Read Pacing
(intelligent bandwidth allocation)
- Dual Cast
o Dual-Host & Fail-Over Support
- Configurable Non-Transparent port
(NTB)
- Moveable upstream port
- Crosslink port capability
o Flexible Configuration
- 12 flexible & configurable ports
(x1 or x4)
- Configurable with strapping pins,
EEPROM, I2 C, or Host software
- Lane and polarity reversal
o PCI Express Power Management
- Link power management states: L0, L0s, L1, L2/L3 Ready, and L3
- Device states: D0 and D3hot
o Spread Spectrum Clock Isolation
- Dual clock domain
o Quality of Service (QoS)
- Two Virtual Channels (VC) per port
- Eight Traffic Classes per port
- Weighted Round-Robin Port & VC Arbitration
o Reliability, Availability, Serviceability
- All ports Hot-Plug capable thru I2 C
(Hot-Plug Controller on every port)
- ECRC & Poison bit support
- Data path protection
- Memory (RAM) error correction
- Advanced Error Reporting support
- Port Status bits and GPIO available
- Per port error diagnostics
- Performance monitoring
(per port payload & header counters)
- JTAG AC/DC boundary scan
- Fatal Error (FATAL_ERR#) output signal
- INTA# output signal