Switchtec™ PCIe® Switches

Offering simple hardware configuration and advanced comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities, Switchtec PFX fanout PCIe switches enable PCIe solutions for a wide variety of systems from data center equipment, GPU workstations/servers, GPU arrays, pooled storage/compute/networking, multi-host architectures, Just a Bunch Of Flash (JBOF), PCIe SSD enclosures, Flash arrays, high-density servers and communications to any application requiring low-latency, high-performance and high-reliability PCIe switching.

Key Features of the Switchtec PFX Family:

• 32 Gigatransfers/sec (GT/s) Gen 5; 16 GT/s Gen 4; 8 GT/s Gen 3
• Up to 100 lanes, 52 ports, 48 Non-Transparent Bridges (NTBs) and 26 virtual switch partitions
• Low power and low latency
• High-reliability PCIe: robust error containment, hot- and surprise-plug controllers per port, end-to-end data integrity protection, ECC protection on RAMs, high-quality, low-power Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes)
• Comprehensive diagnostics and debugging: PCIe generator and analyzer, per-port performance and error counters, multiple loopback modes and real-time eye capture
• Secure system solution with boot image authentication (Gen 5/4)

Switchtec PCIe switches are an excellent solution for data center, machine learning, automotive, communications, defense, industrial and a wide range of other applications.

The Switchtec PSX programmable PCIe switch is a customer-programmable PCIe switch enabling advanced capabilities to differentiate your end products. Building on the PFX’s PCIe switch feature set, the PSX provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom development of unique solutions.

Key Features of the Switchtec PSX Family

• Dynamically redefine switch partitions
• Support for custom PCIe enumeration
• Support for advanced error containment
• Customized error handling including surprise- and hot-plug
• Real-time monitoring of performance counters and signal integrity
• Access to on-board peripheral devices for enclosure management
• Support for external switch management using in-band and side-band interfaces

Typical applications for the PSX family include data center equipment, GPU workstations/servers, GPU arrays, pooled storage/compute/networking, multi-host architectures, JBOF, PCIe SSD enclosures, Flash arrays, high-density servers and automotive interconnect.

Switchtec PAX advanced fabric PCIe switches provide high-performance fabric connectivity for low-latency and cost-effective solutions to the disaggregation of computing, networking, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and NVMe™ storage resources. The PAX PCIe switch family also features advanced error containment, comprehensive diagnostics and debug capabilities, a wide breadth of I/O interfaces and an integrated MIPS^®-based processor.

Key Features of the Switchtec PAX Family:

• Industry’s highest-density, power, 16 GT/s customer-programmable Gen 4 advanced fabric PCIe switch
• PAX SDK enables customization and support for vendor-specific SR-IOV endpoint sharing and virtualization
• 100-, 84-, 68-, 52-, 36- and 28-lane PCIe switches
• Features also include robust error containment, hot- and surprise-plug support, comprehensive diagnostics and a secure system solution with boot image authentication

Applications for the PAX family include scalable multi-host systems, SR-IOV-enabled JBOFs, composable GP-GPU fabrics, disaggregated systems, rack-scale architectures and automotive interconnect.