Installation guide

About the PCI-SB StarFabric® PCI Interface Card
2-4 PCI-SB StarFabric PCI Interface Card Installation Guide
Basic StarFabric Connectivity
The PCI-SB card provides the bridge functionality that enables your primary PCI
bus to seamlessly, transparently and simply expand into a StarFabric network, as
shown in Figure 2.
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FIGURE 2. Using the PCI-SB Card to Add Two StarFabric-enabled
Expansion Devices
This enables a host device with a PCI-SB card installed to connect to many differ-
ent types of StarFabric-enabled devices such as Aurora’s XP-SG Series PCI bus
chassis or other StarFabric-enabled, application-specific devices such as card read-
ers, cash registers, or item scanners.
All components on the remote StarFabric-enabled chassis appear as part of the pri-
mary bus when viewed from the host side of your PCI topology.
Remote StarFabric-enabled expansion units may require clocking and bus arbitra-
tion from an external source.
PCI-SB card
Five Meters Distance
Remote StarFabric Device
Remote StarFabric Device
Primary PCI Bus
You can add up to two StarFabric-enabled
devices to your PCI topology from a single
PCI-SB card on the primary bus, without a
switch.