89HPES8NT2
Data Sheet
Advance Information*
8-Lane 2-Port Non-Transparent
PCI Express® Switch
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Supports locked transactions, allowing use with legacy soft-
ware
Device Overview
The 89HPES8NT2 is a member of the IDT PRECISE™ family of PCI
Express® switching solutions offering the next-generation I/O intercon-
nect standard. The PES8NT2 is a 8-lane, 2-port peripheral chip that
provides high-performance switching and non-transparent bridging
(NTB) functions between a PCIe® upstream port and an NTB down-
stream port. The PES8NT2 is a part of the IDT PCIe System Intercon-
nect Products and is intended to be used with IDT PCIe System
Interconnect Switches. Together, the chipset targets multi-host and intel-
ligent I/O applications such as communications, storage, and blade
servers where inter-domain communication is required.
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Ability to load device configuration from serial EEPROM
Ability to control device via SMBus
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Non-Transparent Port
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Crosslink support on NTB port
Four mapping windows supported
• Each may be configured as a 32-bit memory or I/O window
• May be paired to form a 64-bit memory window
Interprocessor communication
• Thirty-two inbound and outbound doorbells
• Four inbound and outbound message registers
• Two shared scratchpad registers
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Allows up to sixteen masters to communicate through the non-
transparent port
No limit on the number of supported outstanding transactions
through the non-transparent bridge
Completely symmetric non-transparent bridge operation
allows similar/same configuration software to be run
Supports direct connection to a transparent or non-transparent
port of another switch
Features
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High Performance PCI Express Switch
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Eight PCI Express lanes (2.5Gbps), two switch ports
Delivers 32 Gbps (4 GBps) of aggregate switching capacity
Low latency cut-through switch architecture
Support for Max Payload size up to 2048 bytes
Supports one virtual channel and eight traffic classes
PCI Express Base specification Revision 1.0a compliant
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Highly Integrated Solution
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Requires no external components
Incorporates on-chip internal memory for packet buffering and
queueing
Integrates eight 2.5 Gbps embedded full duplex SerDes, 8B/
10B encoder/decoder (no separate transceivers needed)
Flexible Architecture with Numerous Configuration Options
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Supports automatic per port link width negotiation (x8, x4, x2,
or x1)
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Static lane reversal on all ports
Automatic polarity inversion on all lanes
Block Diagram
2-Port Switch Core
Port
Arbitration
Frame Buffer
Route Table
Scheduler
Transaction Layer
Data Link Layer
Multiplexer / Demultiplexer
Transaction Layer
Data Link Layer
Non-
Transparent
Bridge
Multiplexer / Demultiplexer
Phy
Logical
Layer
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Logical
Layer
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Logical
Layer
Phy
Logical
Layer
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Logical
Layer
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Logical
Layer
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SerDes SerDes
SerDes
SerDes SerDes
SerDes
8 PCI Express Lanes
x4 Upstream Port and One x4 Downstream Port
Figure 1 Internal Block Diagram
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