Overview - GE PCIE-5565PIORC* Hardware Reference Manual

Overview

Features
8 PCIE-5565PIORC Reflective Memory Board
The PCIE‐5565PIORC* is a PCI Express (PCIe) member of GE's family of
Reflective Memory real‐time fiber‐optic network products that supports both low
profile and standard height PCIe boards. Two or more PCIE‐5565PIORCs, along
with other members of this family, can be integrated into a network using
standard fiber‐optic cables. Each board in the network is referred to as a "node."
Reflective Memory allows computers, workstations, PLCs and other embedded
controllers with different architectures and dissimilar operating systems to share
data in real time. The 5565 family of Reflective Memory (referred to as RFM‐5565
in this manual) is fast, flexible and easy to operate. Data is transferred by writing
to memory (SDRAM), which appears to reside globally in all boards on the
network. Onboard circuitry automatically performs the data transfer to all other
nodes with little or no involvement of any host processor. A block diagram of the
PCIE‐5565PIORC is shown in Figure 1 on page 9.
Features include:
• High speed, easy to use fiber‐optic network (2.12 Gbaud serially)
• x4 lane PCI Express 1
• No host processor involvement in the operation of the network
• Selectable Redundant Mode of Operation
• Up to 256 nodes
• Connectivity with multimode fiber up to 300 m, singlemode fiber up to
10 km
• Dynamic packet size, 4 to 64 bytes of data per packet
• Fiber network transfer rate 43 MByte/s to 170 MByte/s
• 128/256 MBytes SDRAM Reflective Memory with selectable parity
• Independent Direct Memory Access (DMA) channel
• Four general purpose network interrupts; each with 32 bits of data
• Configurable endian conversion for multiple CPU architectures on the same
network
• Selectable PCI PIO window size from 2 MByte to 64 MByte to full installed
memory size
• Operating System support: Windows
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VxWorks
• RoHS Compliant
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2000, Windows XP, Linux
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and