[Description] [ICs] [Connectors] [Standards]
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 Trade Association [starfabric.org] does not appear to work any longer.
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
RapidIO Bus
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Electronic Industries Alliance, EIA [www.eia.org]
Telecommunications Industry Association, TIA [www.tiaonline.org]
VMEbus International Trade Association, VITA [www.vita.com]
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., IEEE [www.ieee.org]
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Dolphin Interconnect LLC {StarFabric Switch}
IDT {RapidIO multi-port bus switch}
Serial Links use Serializer/Deserializer [SerDes] blocks [Parallel to serial converters].
Refer to the Embedded Interface Bus pages listed above or use this Page
[Interface Bus Types] for a more complete listing of
Switched Fabric IC Manufacturers
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