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1.1.2RapidIO Interconnect Architecture

The interconnect architecture is defined as a packet switched protocol independent of a physical layer implementation. Figure 2 illustrates the interconnection system.

Figure 2. RapidIO Interconnect Architecture

Host

Memory

Memory

Host

Host

Processor

Processor

RapidIO

RapidIO

RapidIO

Switch

I/O

Control

ASIC/FPGA

Processor

 

Memory

RapidIO

Switch

 

 

RapidIO

 

RapidIO

 

RapidIO

 

Switch

InfiniBandHCA

IO

Memory

Processor

 

To

Area

 

Network

RapidIO

 

InfiniBand

 

RapidIO

Backplane

RapidIO

Switch

RapidIO

DSP

DSP

DSP

DSP

 

 

RapidIO

 

 

 

RapidIO

 

Memory

Comm

Memory

Comm

Processor

Processor

 

 

 

 

TDM,GMII,

 

RapidIO

PCI

PCI

Legacy

DSP Farm

Communications

PCI

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1.1.31x/4x LP-Serial

Currently, there are two physical layer specifications recognized by the RapidIO Trade Association: 8/16 LP-LVDS and 1X/4X LP-Serial. The 8/16 LP-LVDS specification is a point-to-point synchronous clock sourcing DDR interface. The 1X/4X LP-Serial specification is a point-to-point, AC coupled, clock recovery interface. The two physical layer specifications are not compatible.

SRIO complies with the 1X/4X LP-Serial specification. The serializer/deserializer (SERDES) technology in SRIO also aligns with that specification.

The 1X/4X LP-Serial specification currently covers three frequency points: 1.25, 2.5, and 3.125 Gbps. This defines the total bandwidth of each differential pair of I/O signals. An 8b/10b encoding scheme ensures ample data transitions for the clock recovery circuits. Due to the 8b/10b encoding overhead, the effective data bandwidth per differential pair is 1.0, 2.0, and 2.5 Gbps respectively. Serial RapidIO only specifies these rates for both the 1X and 4X ports. A 1X port is defined as 1 TX and 1 RX differential pair. A 4X port is a combination of four of these pairs. This document describes a 4X RapidIO port that can also be configured as four 1X ports, thus providing a scalable interface capable of supporting a data bandwidth of 1 to 10 Gbps.

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