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The mezzanine connectors should be able to pass 6.25Gbps Interlaken-LA signals at
sustainable quality. The MICTOR 1-1658016-2, 80 position connector as shown in Figure 6-7
is used. 12V supply voltage is fed to the mezzanine board with sufficient number of pins in
the connector (signals require 32pins, and the rest are for power and GNDs).


6.6. Host Interface


The CN6880 is capable of providing a 4 lanes @5Gbps PCI-e interface, but due to limitation
on the LMP, between the LMP and each CN6880, a 1x @2.5Gbps PCIe interface is provided
on the board as can be seen in Figure 6-8. The PCIe interface is used for configuration and
management of the CN6880. It could also be used for frame exchanges between the LMP
and the CN6880, with DMA enabled. All the PCI-e clocks to devices are from a single clock
buffer.


PCIe@1x

PCIe_CLK

SD[02]

P2041

BCM56842

PCIe

PCIe CLK

CN6880_A

PCIe CLK

CN6880_B

PCIe CLK

PCIe

PCIe

PCIe@1x

PCIe@2x

25
M_

XT
AL

IC

S557-0

5

SD[03]

SD[04/05]

Figure 6-8 Host Interface – PCIe



The management Ethernet ports from each NPU are connected to the Base Interface switch
as can be seen in Figure 6-9 via RGM0 interface. The base switch also provides a
connection to P2041 LMP, for the NPUs to connect to the LMP.

Figure 6-9 Host Interface - Ethernet