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MXP924 User’s Guide – Dolphin Interconnect Solutions Page 5
Terms and Acronyms
Important terms and acronyms used in this manual
AOC
A ctive O ptical C able. PCIe fiber cable assembly available from Dolphin.
CMI
C able M anagement I nterface. The 2-wire management interface for communication between subsystems
connected by a PCIe 4.0 cable. Details can be found in the PCI-SIG External Cabling Specification 4.0 (draft).
BMC
Board Management Controller - Microcontroller on the MXP924 used to manage and implement the CMI
communications.
eXpressWare
Dolphin ’ s software stack for PCIe clustering and IO. Please visit http://www.dolphinics.com/software for more
information.
Lane
One PCI Express Lane contains a differential pair for transmission and a differential pair for reception.
Link
A collection of one or more PCI Express Lanes providing the communication path between an Upstream and
Downstream Port.
PCIe 4.0 cable
Cable compliant to the preliminary PCI-SIG External Cabling Specification 4.0. Support for CMI.
Port
PCIe Cable port. The MXP924 has four x4 ports, named P1, P2, P3, P4. These ports can be merged to two x8
ports, or one x16 port. The physical ports are identified by text on the PCIe brackets.
Wake
A mechanism used by a downstream device to request the reapplication of PC main power when in the L2 Link
state / Power mode.