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Hardware Overview
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Hardware Overview
This chapter illustrates the basic hardware architecture of each
component in the ADLINK PCIS-8580 PCI-to-PCI expansion sys-
tem.
3.1
System Architecture
This section describes the operation theory and technology of the
PCIS-8580 PCI-to-PCI expansion system.
Operation Theory
Figure 3-1: Operation theory of PCIS-8580 PCI-to-PCI expansion system
The PCIS-8580 PCI-to-PCI expansion system utilizes the state-of-
art StarFabric technology as the groundwork for extending the PCI
bus. A PCI-StarFabric bridge located on the host computer pro-
vides an interface between PCI and StarFabric port, which trans-
lates the parallel PCI signals into serial frame format for
transmission across StarFabric link. Each StarFabric link contains
4 pairs, 622Mps LVDS signals and provides 2.5Gbps total band-
width to accommodate complete PCI traffic without any compro-
mise in bandwidth. Error detection and error correction are
automatically performed during the StarFabric transmission to
guarantee the data integrity.