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Cyclone Microsystems 600-2706 Four Slot x16 PCI Express Expansion System Simple Type: Expansion Module

The Cyclone Microsystems’ 2706 PCI Express Expansion System is a PCI Express (PCIe) expansion system that allows the user to add up to four PCI Express add-in-cards. Most PCs contain few PCI Express slots making them poorly suited for embedded systems requiring many different I/O boards and co-processor resources. The 2706 PCI Express Expansion System permits system developers to use powerful and cost-effective PCs as a foundation for a robust embedded system. The four PCI Express slots are organized as one x16 slot, one x8 slot and two x4 slots. All expansion slots accommodate full length and full height cards and are cooled by one 120 CFM and two 59 CFM fans. A 650 watt supply powers the rack mounted expansion chassis. The Expansion System supports 40 Gb/s bi-directional traffic to and from the host system. The system utilizes repeaters and non-blocking PCI Express switches for excellent peer-to-peer I/O bandwidth. For PCs with modern BIOSs, the 2706 Expansion System is recognized by the host system upon boot-up, requires no hardware specific drivers, and is entirely host operating system agnostic. The 600-2706 system is composed of three elements: a PCI Express Host Bus Cable Adapter, an Expansion System Cable and an Expansion Chassis. The PCIe-426 Host Bus Cable Adapter card is to be inserted into a host computer’s x16 PCIe slot. The x16 PCIe expansion cable links the PCI host with the expansion chassis. The expansion chassis is populated with the PCIe-417 Switched Backplane. PCI Express is a high performance, general purpose I/O inter-connect defined for a wide variety of computing and communication platforms. Key PCI attributes, such as its usage model, load-store archi- tecture, and software interfaces are maintained, whereas its parallel bus implementation is replaced by a serial interface. PCI Express take advantage of recent advances in point-to-point inter-connects, Switch- based technology, and packetized protocol to deliver new levels of performance.