IXH610 Users Guide
– Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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Overview
This document describes the new Dolphin PCI Express IX interconnect family and the IXH610 PCI Express
Gen2 adapter card. The card is based on the PES24NT6G2 PCI Express Gen2 chipset from IDT. The IX product
family consists of the following products:
IXH610
PCI Express Gen2 x8 Host adapter card
IXH611
PCI Express Gen2 x8 Host and Target adapter card
IXH620
XMC PCI Express Gen2 Host and Target adapter card
IXS600
8 port PCI Express Gen3 rack mount switch
IXE60X
PCI Express expansion products (contact Dolphin for details)
Information on the cabling infrastructure is available at
http://www.dolphinics.com/products/IX_PCI_Express_cables.html
The IXH610 adapter can be used to connect to any of the above products or to any compliant existing PCI
Express downstream device having a standard PCI Express x8 connector (PCI Express Gen 1 or Gen2, auto
detect).
All Dolphin PCI Express IXH adapters support the complete suite of Dolphin NTB Software including Dolphin
SuperSockets
™, optimized TCP/IP drivers, and SISCI Embedded software. It is also compliant with the PXImc
software specification.
Dolphin SuperSockets is a Berkeley compliant Sockets library which provides socket latency below 2
microseconds and close to the wire speed streaming bandwidth for networked applications. SuperSockets
™ is
currently available on Linux and Windows. It is a 100% transparent plug and play solutions for commercial and
embedded applications. More on SuperSockets can be found at
http://www.dolphinics.com/products/dolphin-
supersockets.html
Dolphin’s optimized TCP/IP driver enables PCI Express to be used as a traditional 10G Ethernet / 40G Ethernet
replacement for e.g. NFS sharing and legacy networking that does not need the low latency provided by
SuperSockets. The TCP/IP driver supports gateway functionality.
The SISCI software provides well defined, easy to use shared memory programming API for PCI Express over
cable. More on SISCI can be found at
http://www.dolphinics.com/products/embedded-sisci-developers-kit.html
More information about the software provided for the Dolphin IXH adapter cards can be found on
http://www.dolphinics.com/products
.
