Intel® 41110 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge Design Guide 37
PCI-X Layout Guidelines
8.6.2 Embedded PCI-X 100 MHz

This section lists the embedded routing recommendations for PCI-X 100MHz. Figure 18 shows

the block diagram of this topology and Tabl e 11 describes the routing recommendations.

Figure 18. Embedded PCI-X 100 MHz Topology

Table 11. Embedded PCI-X 100 MHz Routing Recommendations

Parameter Routing Guideline for Lower AD Bus
Reference Plane Route over an unbroken ground plane
Board Impedance 60 +/- 15%
Stripline Trace Spacing 12 mils from edge to edge
Microstrip Trace Spacing 18 mils, from edge to edge
Break Out 5 mils on 5 mils spacing. Maximum length of breakout region can be 500 mils
Group Spacing Spacing from other groups: 25 mils min, edge to edge
Trace Length 1 (TL1): From
41110 signal Ball to first
junction 0.5” min - 3.0” max
Trace Length: TL_EM1: from
41110 signal ball to the first
embedded device 2.5” min - 3.5” max
Trace Length TL_EM2 -
TL_EM3: from junction to the
embedded device 1.5” min - 3.5” max
Length Matching
Requirements: Clocks coming form the clock driver must be on the same layer and length
matched to within 25 mils.
Number of vias 4 vias max per path
B2720 -01
EM1
TL1
TL_EM1 EM3
TL_EM3
EM2
TL_EM2