Most computer systems are based on the PCI Express® standard as a high speed backbone for interconnection of peripheral components with a host CPU. However, sometimes not all PCI Express® based devices are located closely in a common enclosure, and therefore need external cabling for merging distributed subsystems virtually into a single PCI Express® based computer assembly.
The SXD-FIREWORKS is a target system adapter card for PCIe® x8 external optical cabling, equipped with an MPO/MTP front panel housing, for attachment of a 24- or 12-fiber optical patch cable as connection to a suitable target system. The SXD-FIREWORKS fits into the system slot of a CompactPCI® Serial backplane, as replacement for a CPU card in the target system.
With its on-board PCIe® packet switch the SXD-FIREWORKS replicates two PCI Express® Gen3 x8 links across a 3-slot CompactPCI® Serial backplane. Thus, two CompactPCI® Serial fat pipe slot cards in the target system can be natively controlled by the remote target system CPU, with a transfer rate of up to 64Gbps.
The SXD-FIREWORKS target adapter for CompactPCI®Serial systems enables a Gen3 PCIe® optical cable link up to 100m. Samtec FireFly™ PCIe®-over-fiber transceivers provide high performance signal quality with BER better than 1E-12.
Compared to other cabling solutions e.g. 40Gbps Ethernet, a PCI Express® Gen3 x8 link offers higher data transfer rates at lower latency.
Features
- PCI Express® external optical cabling target side adapter, Gen3 x8
- PICMG® CompactPCI® Serial (CPCI-S.0) system slot controller (for PCIe® resources only)
- Form factor single size Eurocard (board dimensions 100x160mm2)
- Mounting height 3U
- CompactPCI® Serial backplane connectors P1, P2, P5 PCI Express® Gen3
- Enables two peripheral slots organized x8/x8 (suitable for fat pipe peripheral slot cards)
- Gen3 PCI Express® 24-lanes packet switch on-board
- Optical PCIe® Gen3 cabling up to 100m with female/female MTP/MPO patch cable
- 24-Fiber patch cable for PCIe® x8 link
- 12-Fiber patch cable for PCIe® x4 link
- Compliant Specifications: TIA-604-5-D (FOCIS 5), TIA-568-C.3, IEC-61754-7-1
- On-board Samtec FireFly™ PCUO-G3 optical transceivers, socketed
- Cabling port PCIe® Gen3 x8 or x4, MTP/MPO front panel bulkhead adapter
- Two target systems or devices can be attached simultaneously
- Suitable for a CompactPCI® Serial target system to be controlled by a remote host
- Connects to any host adapter with PCI Express® optical cabling interface equipped w. Samtec FireFly™ PCUO transceivers
Applications
- For lowest latency at fastest speed connected systems
- Distributed computing - host to target system hierarchy
- Split-systems, hybrid systems, or system expansion applications
- Remote fast storage (e.g. NVMe SSD mass storage)
- Mating host controller board available for CompactPCI® Serial SX6-FIREWORKS
- Mating PCI Express® host adapter card available from 3rd party vendor
Ordering Options
| Manuf. Part No | | Part Description |
| SXD-0800-FIREWORKS | | PCIe Gen3 external optical cable target system adapter, F/P opposed MPO/MTP 24 fiber, PCIe x8, up to 100m, based on Samtec Firefly(TM) Flyover(TM) PCUO modules, backplane resources: 2 x PCIe x8 Gen3 fat pipe slots |
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