Features

Features include

– High-speed, easy-to-use fibre-optic network (serial rate of 2.12 Gbaud)

– x4-lane PCI Express 1.0a to PCI bridge

– Network operates without the involvement of a host processor

– Optional redundant operating modes

– Up to 256 nodes

– Connections up to 300 m to multimode fibre, up to 10 km to singlemode fibre

– 10 kilometres

– Dynamic packet sizes from 4 to 64 bytes of data per packet

– Transmission rates over fibre-optic networks from 43 MByte/s to 170 MByte/s

– 128/256 MB bytes of SDRAM reflective memory, parity selectable

– Independent direct memory access (DMA) channels

– Four general-purpose network interrupts; each interrupt has 32 bits of data

– Configurable endpoint translation for multiple CPU architectures on the same network

– Selectable PCI PIO window size from 2 MB bytes to 64 MB bytes to full installed memory size

– Supported Operating Systems Supports Windows® 2000. Windows XP, Linux®, and VxWorks® operating systems.

– RoHS compliant

Comparison of PCIE-5565RC and VMIPCI-5565*

The classic VMIPCI-5565* contains multiple components that are combined into a single Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in the PCIE-5565RC.

These components include PLX Technologies’ PCI interface device, three separate small FPGAs, a transmit FIFO and a receive FIFO.

Compared to the legacy VMIPCI-5565. the PCIE-5565RC adds greater design flexibility and improves performance in at least three ways.

1. The PCIE-5565RC has improved DMA burst and PIO write access rates over the legacy VMIPCI-5565. 2.

2. The PCIE-5565RC doubles the on-board SDRAM memory access bandwidth, improving overall throughput.

3. The PCIE-5565RC can be field upgraded with new features.