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Mellanox Technologies Confidential Rev 1.1
2 Interfaces
2.1 InfiniBand Interface
The network ports of the ConnectX®-6 adapter cards are compliant with the InfiniBand
Architecture Specification, Release 1.3 and Vol. 2, Release 1.4 . InfiniBand traffic is
transmitted through the c ard’s QSFP56 connector
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2.2 Ethernet QSFP56 Interface
The adapter card includes special circuits to protect from ESD shocks to the card/server
when plugging copper cables.
The network ports of the ConnectX-6 adapter card are compliant with the IEEE 802.3
Ethernet standards listed in
Features and Benefits . Ethernet traffic is transmitted through
the QSFP56 connector on the adapter card.
2.3 PCI Express Interface
Initial release of ConnectX-6 cards is InfiniBand and PCIe Gen 3.0 only. VPI and PCIe
Gen 4.0 functionality will be added in a future release.
ConnectX®-6 adapter cards support PCI Express Gen 3.0/4.0 (1.1 and 2.0 compatible)
through x16 edge connectors. The device can be either a master initiating the PCI Express
bus operations, or a slave responding to PCI bus operations.
The following lists PCIe interface features:
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PCIe Gen 3.0 and 4.0 compliant, 2.0 and 1.1 compatible
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2.5, 5.0, 8.0, or 16.0 GT/s link rate x16
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Auto-negotiates to x16, x8, x4, x2, or x1
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Support for MSI/MSI-X mechanisms