Installation guide

PCI-SB StarFabric PCI Interface Card Installation Guide G-11
PICMG 2.17
Refers to the StarFabric CompactPCI specification that defines backplane,
node card and switch card requirements that are compatible with both the
StarFabric Protocol Specification and appropriate existing PICMG Specifica-
tions.
Primary Bus
The physical PCI bus in a personal computer or workstation operating as a
host system in PCI topology. Typically, the host system operates as a Root
bridge ion a StarFabric-enabled topology. All other StarFabric-enabled
devices in the topology attach to secondary PCI buses.
PVX Utility
PVX is an MSDOS
TM
utility from StarGen that lets you view the configura-
tion memory of StarFabric-enabled PCI devices in your PCI topology and
perform some basic testing and troubleshooting on them.
Rear I/O
Refers to interface connectors that reside on the rear of an I/O card such as
the PMC-SBR card and attach to the bus connectors of a enclosure or chassis.
Redundancy
Refers to systematic approach of building alternate or additional physical
connections or hardware in your network topology. For example, a PMC-SB
card can be configured to provide redundant serial links between a target
node and the source node by connecting all four ports on the card to another
device using RJ-45 cables.
RJ-45 Connector
An eight-wire modular telephone jack. It is similar to the RJ-11 plug used for
modem interfaces, but the RJ-45 connector acts as an interconnect cable
between computers, such as connecting a host system and a remote device.