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SPCI Switched-PCI
SPCI Switched-PCI
 SPCI is a single PCI card to eliminate the hierarchical nature of I/O bridges by converting parallel I/O bus to a high speed point-to-point serial link.



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Highlights:

Powerful SwitchFabric I/O features support
Solaris SPARC and x86 version 8, 9 and 10
General:

Switched-PCI solution from Solflower Computer, Inc. provides powerful advanced interconnect features to PCI-based Sun Workstation. Based on the StarFabric® technology, systems can be expanded through serial links to multiple PCI nodes, the same topology that will be deployed in PCI Express ™ & Advanced Switching technology.

Product Description:

SPCI is a single PCI card to eliminate the hierarchical nature of I/O bridges by converting parallel I/O bus to a high speed point-to-point serial link. Fabric-PCI is a dynamic and powerful switched fabric interconnect architecture that provides new levels of performance, scalability, and availability to a wide range of systems. In addition to the PCI-PCI transparent bridge mode, StarFabric supports multiple classes of high-speed data traffic including legacy path routing, and multicasting.

Low latency bus transaction, scalable configuration and compatible drivers for Solaris OS are key features of the Solflower Switched-PCI products.

Features:
Hardware features:
Software features:
  • Fully compatible to PCI-PCI Architecture Specification, rev 2.2.
  • Extend existing PCI-based systems distances across the rack up to CAT5 cable.
  • Up to 256 PCI slots at 33/66MHz.
  • Support 32/64bit, PCI, PMC, 6U CompactPCI and 6U VME format.
  • 3.3V and 5V tolerant I/O interfaces.
  • Two 2.5 Gbps, full-duplex StarFabric serial links.
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  • Integrates with Sun's PCI and cPCI software subsystems, resulting transparent environment for running PCI or cPCI devices.
  • Bus segments may be taken ON or OFFLINE, even to the point of powering them on or off.
  • Dynamic addition and removal of software instances of devices.
  • Multicast Groups allow data from a source edge node to be propagated simultaneously to multiple destination edge nodes.
  • Graphical user interfaces for easy maintenance and services.
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