Adapter Card Interfaces
Rev 1.6
Mellanox Technologies
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2
Adapter Card Interfaces
2.1
I/O Interfaces
Each card includes the following interfaces:
• SFP+ ports
• I/O panel LEDs
• I
2
C compatible connector (for debug)
For dual port cards, port 1 connects to connector 1 of the device, while port 2 connects to connec-
tor 2 of the device.
ConnectX-2 Ethernet Adapter Cards are compliant with the IEEE Std 802.3 Specification.
Figure 3: Port Numbering
2.1.1 Ethernet SFP+ Interface
The ConnectX
®
-2 device is compliant with the
IEEE Std 802.3.
The SFP+ port has one Tx/Rx pair
of SerDes.Ethernet NIC cards listed in Table 3 on page 11 based on this device provide access to
the Ethernet ports by means of SFP+ connectors.
2.1.2 PCI Express Interface
The ConnectX-2 adapter cards support PCI Express 2.0 (1.1 compatible) through an x8 edge con-
nector. The device can be either a master initiating the PCI Express bus operations or a slave
responding to PCI bus operations.
Port 2
Port 1
