
IDT Table of Contents
PES12N3A User Manual ii April 10, 2008
Notes Peer-to-Peer Transactions..............................................................................................................3-8
Bus Locking....................................................................................................................................3-8
Port Interrupts...............................................................................................................................3-10
Legacy Interrupt Emulation...........................................................................................................3-10
Standard PCIe Error Detection and Handling...............................................................................3-11
Physical Layer Errors ...........................................................................................................3-11
Data Link Layer Errors..........................................................................................................3-11
Transaction Layer Errors......................................................................................................3-12
Routing Errors ......................................................................................................................3-14
Switch Specific Error Detection and Handling..............................................................................3-15
Switch Time-Outs.................................................................................................................3-16
End-to-End Parity Checking.................................................................................................3-16
TLP Processing ............................................................................................................................3-17
Link Operation
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................4-1
Polarity Inversion............................................................................................................................4-1
Link Width Negotiation....................................................................................................................4-1
Lane Reversal.................................................................................................................................4-1
Link Retraining................................................................................................................................4-2
Link Down.......................................................................................................................................4-3
Slot Power Limit Support................................................................................................................4-3
Upstream Port ........................................................................................................................4-3
Downstream Port....................................................................................................................4-3
Link States......................................................................................................................................4-3
Active State Power Management ...................................................................................................4-4
Link Status......................................................................................................................................4-5
General Purpose I/O
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................5-1
GPIO Configuration ........................................................................................................................5-1
GPIO Pin Configured as an Input...........................................................................................5-2
GPIO Pin Configured as an Output........................................................................................5-2
GPIO Pin Configured as an Alternate Function......................................................................5-2
SMBus Interfaces
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................6-1
Master SMBus Interface.................................................................................................................6-2
Initialization.............................................................................................................................6-2
Serial EEPROM......................................................................................................................6-2
I/O Expanders.........................................................................................................................6-6
Slave SMBus Interface.................................................................................................................6-10
Initialization...........................................................................................................................6-11
SMBus Transactions ............................................................................................................6-11
Power Management
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................7-1
PME Messages...............................................................................................................................7-2
Power Express Power Management Fence Protocol.....................................................................7-2
Power Budgeting Capability............................................................................................................7-3