Data Center Solutions NDA TM Switchtec PFX Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch Family PM40100, PM40084, PM40068, PM40052, PM40036, PM40028 Summary The Switchtec PFX Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch Family comprises high-reliability PCIe switches supporting up to 100 lanes, 52 ports, 26 virtual switch partitions, 48 non-transparent bridges (NTBs), hot- and surprise-plug controllers for each port, advanced error containment and comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities, a wide breadth of I/O interfaces and an integrated MIPS processor. Typical applications for the PFX family include data center equipment, defense and industrial servers, workstations, test equipment, video production and broadcasting equipment, cellular infrastructure, access networks, metro networks and core networking. Features High-Performance Non-Blocking Gen 4 Switches Diagnostics and Debug 100-lane, 84-lane, 68-lane, 52-lane, 36-lane and Real-time eye capture 28-lane variants External loopback capability 1 Ports bifurcate from to x1 /x2/x4/x8/x16 lanes Highlights Up to 48 NTBs assignable to any port Logical non-transparent (NT) interconnect allows for larger High-reliability PCIe: robust error containment, hot- and topologies surprise-plug controllers per port, end-to-end data integrity Supports 1+1 and N+1 failover mechanisms protection, high-quality, low-power SERDES Comprehensive diagnostics and debugging: PCIe genera- DMA Controller tor and analyzer, per-port performance and error counters, High-performance, ultra-low latency DMA engine multiple loopback modes and real-time eye capture Significant power, cost and board space savings with sup - Error Containment port for: Advanced Error Reporting (AER) on all ports Up to 52 ports, 48 NTBs, and 26 virtual switch partitions Downstream Port Containment (DPC) on all downstream ports 1 Flexible x1 , x2, x4, x8, and x16 port bifurcation with no Completion Timeout Synthesis (CTS) to prevent an error restrictions on configuring ports as either upstream or state in an upstream host due to incomplete non-posted downstream, or on mapping ports to NTBs transactions Secure system solution with boot image authentication Hot- and surprise-plug controllers per port GPIOs configurable for different cable/connector standards PCIe Interfaces Passive, managed and optical cables SFF-8644, SFF-8643, SFF-8639, OCuLink and other connectors 1 x1 natively on four lanes www.microchip.comPeripheral I/O Interfaces Evaluation Kit Up to 11 Two-Wire Interfaces (TWIs) with SMBus support The PM42100-KIT Switchtec Gen 4 PCIe Switch Evaluation Up to 4 SFF-8485-compliant SGPIO ports Kit is a device evaluation environment that supports multiple 10/100 Ethernet MAC port (MII/RMII) (PFX 96x/80x/64xG4) interfaces. Up to 4 UARTs JTAG and EJTAG interface Example Application High-Speed I/O PCIe Gen 4 16 GT/s Host Host Supports PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration x16 x16 Manual PHY configuration for optical NVMe SSD Power Management TM Switchtec Switchtec Active State Power Management (ASPM) PFX 100xG4 NVMe PFX 100xG4 Software-controlled power management SSD PM40100 PM40100 ChipLink Diagnostic Tools NVMe Extensive debug, diagnostics, configuration and analysis x2/x4 x2/x4 SSD tools with an intuitive GUI Access to configuration data, management capabilities and signal integrity analysis tools (such as real-time eye capture) Ordering Information Hot-Plug Product Part Numbers Lanes Ports/NTBs Partitions Controllers PFX 100xG4 Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch PM40100B-FEI 100 52/48 26 52 PFX 84xG4 Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch PM40084B-FEI 84 44/42 22 44 PFX 68xG4 Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch PM40068B-FEI 68 36/34 18 36 PFX 52xG4 Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch PM40052B-F3EI 52 28/26 14 28 PFX 36xG4 Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch PM40036B-F3EI 36 20/18 10 20 PFX 28xG4 Gen 4 Fanout PCIe Switch PM40028B-F3EI 28 16/14 8 16 The Microchip name and logo, the Microchip logo are registered trademarks and Switchtec is a trademark of Microchip Technology Incorporated in the U.S.A. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective companies. 2020, Microchip Technology Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 3/20 DS00002866D www.microchip.com