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A switched-fabric bus allows all nodes on the bus to inter-connect with
all other nodes on the bus. All nodes connecting to all other nodes is
the "Fabric" in Switched-Fabric. The node connections are temporarily and
can be reconfigured, this is the "Switched" in Switched-Fabric. The
interconnections are dedicated while interconnected. To form larger
networks or nodes the switches may be cascaded together to form any size
[fabric] network. Switched fabric networks are used to provide Fault
tolerance and used in many Avionics Buses, the buses are
serial in nature.
ANSI/TIA/EIA-644 LVDS is used for many of the Switched Fabric
buses
StarFabric is a multi-protocol switched interconnect technology for board-to-board and chassis-to-chassis connectivity. StarFabric uses EIA-644 [LVDS] as the electrical specification. Providing 622Mbps in one direction, or 1.25Gbps Bi-Directional speed (per pair), using 8B/10B encoding.
StarFabric
OverView
{ StarFabric Trade Association}
SwitchedFabric networks residing with-in other Bus structures [all of
which reside on their own pages];
Advanced Switching Interconnect 'ASI' is a Switched Fabric
bus that uses the PCI Express interface.
InfiniBand is a Switched Fabric
bus;
VMEbus has SwitchedFabric sub-bus
additions on the P2 connector;
..... Skychannel, and Raceway
VME64x bus has SwitchedFabric sub-bus
additions on the P0 connector;
..... VXS [VMEbus Switched Serial Standard]
cPCI [Compact PCI] which has
these bus additions on its connector;
..... PICMG 2.15 Rev1.0 PCI Telecom Mezzanine/Carrier Card [H.110 [TDM
bus] Computer Telephony]
..... PICMG 2.16 Rev1.0 CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane
Specification [cPSB] (GigaBridge, Ethernet)
..... PICMG 2.17 Rev1.0 CompactPCI StarFabric Specification
..... PICMG 2.20 Rev1.0 CompactPCI Serial Mesh Backplane
Specification
AdvancedTCA (PICMG 3.x) [Advanced
Telecom Computing Architecture]
..... PICMG 3.0 Mechanical, Power, Connectors, Specification
..... PICMG 3.1 Specification for Ethernet fabric interconnects
[10/100/1000 Ethernet]
..... PICMG 3.2 Specification for InfiniBand fabric interconnects
..... PICMG 3.3 Specification for StarFabric interconnects
..... PICMG 3.4 Specification for PCI Express interconnects
Compact PCI Industrial Computer
Manufacturers Group {PICMG}
Electronic Industries Alliance
{EIA}
Telecommunications Industry
Association {TIA}
VMEbus International Trade Association
{VITA}
Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, Inc. {IEEE}
Agere Systems
{ H.100/H.110 to StarFabric Bridge.}
AMCC
{Switched Fabric IC's}
StarGen, Inc.
{StarFabric Switch- PCI to StarFabric Bridge-TDM to StarFabric Bridge
ICs}
Tundra Semiconductor Corp.
{RapidIO multi-port bus switch}
Serial Links use Serializer/Deserializer [SerDes] blocks [Parallel to serial converters].
See the Embedded Interface Bus pages listed above or use this Page
[Interface Bus Types] for a more complete listing of
Switched Fabric IC Manufacturers
Engineering Design Key words: Switched-Fabric, Embedded Computer Bus, Electrical Standard, Interface Standard, Specification, Spec, Electrical Interface, IC manufacturers, Physical Interface, Engineering Description, electrical characteristics, Component Manufacturers
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