PLX Technology PEX8605 Quick user guide

PEX8605 TQFP-AIC RDK
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PLX Technology
Hardware Reference Manual
PEX8605 TQFP-AIC Rapid Development Kit

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Preface
Notice
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RDK, or for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction or repair.
About This Manual
This document describes the PLX PEX8605 TQFP-AIC RDK, a Rapid Development Kit, from a hardware perspective. It
contains a description of all major functional circuit blocks on the board and also is a reference for the creation of
software for this product. This manual also includes complete schematics and bill of materials.
Revision History
Date
Version
Comments
March
2013
1.0
Initial Release

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Table Of Contents
1GENERAL INFORMATION..........................................................................................................5
1.1 PEX8605 Features ...................................................................................................................................................7
1.2 PEX8605 AIC RDK Features.................................................................................................................................8
1.3 Getting Started.........................................................................................................................................................9
2PEX8605 RDK HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE ........................................................................10
2.1 Architecture Block Diagram.................................................................................................................................10
2.2 Board Components................................................................................................................................................11
2.3 PEX8605 TQFP PCI Express Switch...................................................................................................................13
2.4 PCI Express Upstream Port Connection.............................................................................................................13
2.5 PCI Express Downstream Port Connections.......................................................................................................13
2.6 Hardware Strap Pin Dipswitches.........................................................................................................................13
2.7 Dipswitch Setting Tables.......................................................................................................................................14
2.8 Power Circuitry .....................................................................................................................................................16
2.9 Serial EEPROM Interface....................................................................................................................................16
2.10 JTAG Interface ..................................................................................................................................................16
2.11 I2C/SMBUS Interface........................................................................................................................................17
2.12 FATAL_ERR#, and INTA#..............................................................................................................................18
2.13 Reference Clock Circuitry.................................................................................................................................18
2.14 Reset Circuitry ...................................................................................................................................................18
2.15 Port Good Indicator LEDs................................................................................................................................19
2.16 PCIe Protocol Debug .........................................................................................................................................20
2.17 WAKE# and Vaux Support...............................................................................................................................20
3RDK CONFIGURATIONS ..........................................................................................................21

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3.1 Default Strap Pin Settings Diagram.....................................................................................................................21
3.2 Hardware Strap Pins.............................................................................................................................................22
3.3 Configuration Modules .........................................................................................................................................22
3.4 Hardware Jumpers................................................................................................................................................23
Figures
Figure 1. PEX8605 TQFP RDK Front View _____________________________________________________________________6
Figure 2. Getting Started ______________________________________________________________________________________9
Figure 3. RDK Architecture ____________________________________________________________________________________10
Figure 4. RDK Component Locations ____________________________________________________________________________12
Figure 5. Configuration Dipswitches ____________________________________________________________________________13
Figure 6. EEPROM in Socket ___________________________________________________________________________________16
Figure 7. Pin Assignment of JTAG Port Header, JP1 ________________________________________________________________17
Figure 8. I2C Plug Orientation _________________________________________________________________________________17
Figure 9. Pin Assignment of I2C Connector JP2 ___________________________________________________________________18
Figure 10. Fatal Error and INTA# LEDs___________________________________________________________________________18
Figure 11. Manual PERST# button ______________________________________________________________________________19
Figure 12 Lane Good LEDs ____________________________________________________________________________________19
Figure 13: Midbus 2.0 Probe Footprint __________________________________________________________________________20
Figure 14. Default Dipswitch Settings ___________________________________________________________________________21
Tables
Table 1. PEX8605 Port Configurations____________________________________________________________________________5
Table 2 Component Table ____________________________________________________________________________________11
Table 3. SW1 Functions ______________________________________________________________________________________14
Table 4. SW2 Functions ______________________________________________________________________________________15
Table 5. SW3 Functions ______________________________________________________________________________________15
Table 6. SW4 Functions ______________________________________________________________________________________15
Table 7. Port Indicator Blink Pattern ____________________________________________________________________________19
Table 8. PEX8605 StrapPortCfg Settings _________________________________________________________________________22
Table 9. Configuration Module Description_______________________________________________________________________22
Table 10. PEX8605 RDK Jumper Settings _________________________________________________________________________23

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1General Information
The PEX8605 TQFP RDK is a PLX Rapid Development Kit intended primarily for use by PLX customers for silicon
evaluation and design reference. The form factor is based on the PCI Express Card Electromechanical specification.
The board is designed to work by plugging internally into a PCI Express compliant motherboard. Figure 1 shows the
board outline and component placement.
The PEX8605 TQFP RDK has 1 x4 upstream port connector and 3 x16 PCIe connectors. The upstream edge connector
has 1 or 2 PCIe Gen2 lanes electrically connected to it, and the downstream PCIe connectors have 1 PCIe Gen2 lane
each electrically connected to it depending on the installed configuration module.
The PEX8605 TQFP RDK supports the use of one configuration module slot to provide flexibility in the routing of PCIe
lane 1 to either the x4 PCIe edge connector or to one of the PCIe slots. The Configuration Module enables the RDK to
support the following port configurations:
Table 1. PEX8605 Port Configurations
PEX 8605
Port Configuration
0h
x1, x1, x1, x1
1h
x2, x1, x1
The PEX8605 TQFP RDK meets the ROHS guidelines for electronic components, and hardware.

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G1
47
2
G2
48
JP11
G1
47
2
G2
48
JP8
JP9
JP7
19
18
24
6
712
13
U8
32
33
64
6596
97128
U1
D8 4
3
2
D7
4
3
2
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
H
I J
20
18
P1
15
13
11
9
7
5
3
1
A B
C D E F G
19
17
20
19
2
JP1
10 9
B82
B12
P4
B11
B1
PCB Edge
U5
6
712
13
18
1924
U7 5
42
B32
P2
B1
B17
L2
L1
2
4
3
S2
2
S1
4
3
11
12
2
JP10
10 11
20
U12
U13 20
11
10
L3
3
U9
6
4
TP48
TP21
TP32
TP29
TP28
TP27
TP26
TP25
TP24
TP23
TP22
TP20
TP19
TP18
TP31
TP30
TP17
TP16
TP15
TP37
TP36
TP35
TP34
TP33
TP3
TP47 TP46
TP1
TP2
TP4
C138
C24
C22
C132
C120
C18
C113
C126
C36
C43
C56
C57
C68
C69
C70
C71
C59
C58
8
5
RN2
4
RN1
8
45
RN3
8
45
8
5
4
RN4
8
RN5
5
4
RN6
8
54
16
ON
9
SW2
8
ON 16
9
SW3
8
ON
12
SW4
6
7
P3
A70 A82
B70 B82
A60A50
A40
B60
B40 B50
A30A20A12
B12 B20 B30
B1
A10A2
B2 B10
P5
A70 A82
B82
B70
A60A50
A40
B60
B40 B50
A30A20A12
B12 B20 B30
B1
A10A2
B2 B10
8
U2
5
4
5
8
4
SW1
1
5
43
U10
5
4
3
U11
C15
C9
C8
C7
C6
C5
C11
C10
D9
D10
D11
D1
D4
D5
D6
D2
D3
R37
R36
R35
R34
C35 C34
C32 C31 C30 C29
C128
C124
C127
2
10
JP4
9
2
10
JP2
9
JP6
3
2
JP5
2
JP3
R110
C60
C137
R109
R108
R107
R106
R105
R104
R31
R44
R43
C33
R40
R46
R41
R33
R32
R29 R27
R26
C26
C65
C112
C125
C52
C53
C64
C66C67
C46
C47
R6
R77
R81
C55
C54
R3
R4
R5
R1
R2
R48
R49
C51 C49
R19
R20
R23
R22
R21
R18
R17
R16
R15
R14
R13 C16
C14 C13 C12
C44
C45
R58
R59R63
R67 R68
R71
R85
R84
R83
R82
R80
R79R78
R76R75
R74
R53
SLOT_PERST#
DBGMODE
SMBUS_EN#
PORTCFG0
UPCFG_TIMER_EN#
I2C_ADDR2
I2C_ADDR1
I2C_ADDR0
GPIO1
GPIO2
TESTMODE3
TESTMODE2
TESTMODE1
PROBE_MODE#
SERDES_MODE_EN#
PLL_BYPASS#
FAST_BRINGUP#
DEBUG_SEL#
TESTMODE0
GPIO0
GPIO3
PLX Technology, Inc. C 2013
SLOT 1
3.3VAUX
3.3VCC
12VCC
PWRGD_12
PWRGD2_12
I2C
SLOT 2
SLOT 3
LANEGOOD3#
LANEGOOD2#
LANEGOOD1#
LANEGOOD0#
FERR#
INTA#
PWRON_RST#
PERST#
DBG_PR2 DBG_PR3
DBG_SELBUS
DBG_PR0
DBG_PR1
JTAG
Figure 1. PEX8605 TQFP RDK Front View

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1.1 PEX8605 Features
The PEX 8605 supports the following features:
•4-Port PCI Express switch
–4 Lanes with integrated on-chip SerDes
–Low-power SerDes (under 90 mW per Lane)
–Fully Non-Blocking Switch architecture
–Port configuration
4 independent Ports
Choice of Link width (quantity of Lanes) per unique Link/Port (x1, x2)
Configurable with serial EEPROM or I2C
•High Performance
–Full line rate on all Ports
–Cut-Thru packet latency of less than 250 ns between symmetric (x1 to x1)
–Maximum Payload Size –256 bytes
•Quality of Service (QoS) support
–All Ports support one, full-featured Virtual Channel (VC0)
–All Ports support eight Traffic Class (TC[7:0]) mapping, independently of the other Ports
–Weighted Round-Robin (WRR) Port arbitration
•Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) features
–Electromechanical Interlock supported with Power Enable output
–Baseline and Advanced Error Reporting capability
–JTAG AC/DC boundary scan
INTA# (PEX_INTA#) and FATAL ERROR (FATAL_ERR#) (Conventional PCI SERR# equivalent) pin support
4 General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) pins, which can be used for Link Status LEDs, GPIOs, and/or Interrupt
inputs
•Other PCI Express Capabilities
–Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Digest support for Poison bit
–Lane reversal (Port 0 only, when Port 0 is configured with a x2 Link width)
–Polarity reversal
–Conventional PCI-compatible Link Power Management states
L0, L0s, L1, L2, and L2/L3 Ready
L3 (with Vaux supported)
–Conventional PCI-compatible Device Power Management states
D0, D1, D2, and D3hot
D3cold (with Vaux supported)
–Active State Power Management (ASPM)
–Dynamic speed (2.5 or 5.0 GT/s) negotiation
–Dynamic Link-width negotiation
•Out-of-Band Initialization options

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–Serial EEPROM
–I2C and SMBus (7-bit Slave address with 100 Kbps)
•Testability –JTAG support for DC
•14x14mm2128-lead TQFP package
•Typical power –0.8W
1.2 PEX8605 AIC RDK Features
•PEX8605-AB PCI Express 4-port Gen 2 PCIE Switch
•X4 Upstream goldfinger
•Three downstream PCI Express x16 Slot Connectors
•DIP Switches for hardware configuration of PEX8605
•Socketable Serial EEPROM
•Manual push-button PERST# capability
•I2C /SMBus header for Out-of-Band register access
•JTAG header for testability

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1.3 Getting Started
1
2
3
4
Figure 2. Getting Started
Follow the following steps to use the RDK.
1) Plug board into x16 PCI Express slot on motherboard.
2) Check and set dipswitches for desired port configuration.
3) Check that the correct configuration module is plugged into the socket.
4) Plug in PCI Express endpoints into downstream slots.
After all these steps are completed, system can be powered on.

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2PEX8605 RDK Hardware Architecture
2.1 Architecture Block Diagram
x1
x1
PEX 8605 TQFP
(U1)
Lane0
Lane2 Lane3
X4 Card Edge(P2)
X16 Straddle Mount Connector(P4)
x1
X16 Connector(P3)
x1
RefClk
Buffer (U8)
EEPROM
(U2) JTAG (JP1)
I2C
(JP2)
DIPSW
PERST#
Status LED
X16 Connector(P5)
CM
Lane1
x1
Figure 3. RDK Architecture