Installation guide

About the PCI-SB StarFabric® PCI Interface Card
2-2 PCI-SB StarFabric PCI Interface Card Installation Guide
About the PCI-SB Card
The PCI-SB card (see Figure 1) interconnects legacy PCI hardware with StarFab-
ric-enabled devices to design highly-scalable and reliable, next-generation PCI
expansion topologies based on StarFabric® technology.
FIGURE 1. PCI-SB PCI Interface Card
The PCI-SB card installs into any standard PCI slot on a PCI 2.2 compliant mother-
board to provide up to 220 expansion slots in a legacy PCI address routing applica-
tion or Gateway path routing application.
Features & Benefits
The PCI-SB card provides the following features and benefits:
Scalability & Performance
• Dual 2.5 Gbps full-duplex StarFabric serial links with four RJ-45 connectors
• Supports 33/66 MHz PCI buses
• Supports up to 220 PCI expansion slots over a switch fabric
• Automatically detects 32-bit and 64-bit PCI slots