PXH810 User
’s Guide – Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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Overview
This document describes the Dolphin PCI Express IX and PX interconnect family and the PXH810 PCI Express
Gen3 adapter card.
The Dolphin Express IX and PX product family consists of the following products:
PXH810
PCI Express Gen3 x8 NTB x8 iPass cable adapter
PXH812
PCI Express Gen3 x8 Host and Target Transparent x8 iPass cable adapter
PXH830
PCI Express Gen3 x16 NTB MiniSAS-HD cable adapter card
IXH610
PCI Express Gen2 x8 NTB Host adapter x8 iPass cable card
IXH611
PCI Express Gen2 x8 Host and Target adapter x8 iPass cable card
IXS620
XMC PCI Express Gen2 NTB Host and Target XMC adapter x8 iPass cable card
IXS600
PCI Express Gen3 8 port rack mount x8 iPass cable switch
IXE60X
PCI Express expansion products (contact Dolphin for details)
IXC1M
1 meter PCIe Gen3 iPass copper cable
IXC2M
2 meter PCIe Gen3 iPass copper cable
IXC5M
5 meter PCIe Gen3 iPass copper cable
IXC7M
7 meter PCIe Gen2 iPass copper cable
IXC448-2M 2 meter x8 to x4 transition PCIe Gen3 iPass copper cable
IXFC848-10M 10 meter x4 Gen2 fiber optic cable with x8 iPass connectors
IXFC10M
10 meter x8 iPass Gen3 fiber optic cable
IXFC50M
50 meter x8 iPass Gen3 fiber optic cable
IXFC100M
100 meter x8 iPass Gen3 fiber optic cable
Please note that mixing IXH6xx and PXH810 cards in NTB mode is not yet supported by Dolphin software due to
implementation differences between the Avago and IDT NTB features. The PXH812 can connect to the IXH620
XMC card for transparent operation.
The PXH810 adapter supports the complete suite of Dolphin NTB software including Dolphin SuperSockets
™,
optimized TCP/IP drivers, and SISCI embedded software.
Dolphin SuperSockets
™ is a Berkeley compliant Sockets library, which provides socket latency below 1
microsecond 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 things such as 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 a well-defined, easy-to-use shared memory / reflective 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 PXH810 adapter cards can be found on
http://www.dolphinics.com/products/dolphin_pci_express_software.html