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Starfabric products

StarFabric extends the reach and capabilities of PCI based platforms. Currently designed into over 75 products worldwide, StarFabric is ideally suited for embedded systems needing enhanced switched PCI capabilities.

Dolphin's StarFabric switched interconnect product line is providing production solutions today in medical imaging, video serving, semiconductor test, communication routers and switches, military command and control, and storage equipment. StarFabric is ideally suited for embedded systems needing enhanced switched PCI capability, as well as communication access platforms for voice, data and video networks. StarFabric switch and bridge products enable system developers to create next generation systems, today.

Key Benifits

• Overcomes the bandwidth and communication limitations of the PCI bus
• Can extend legacy PCI bus to multiple chassis (transparent bridging) with no software changes and cabling up to 40 ft.
• Supports non-transparent bridging (multiple host CPUs and I/O domains) with a full SW development suite.

A StarFabric link can simultaneously transmit and receive at 2.5 Gbps. A standard link is made up of four aggregated 622 Mbps LVDS differential pairs in each direction. The signals can be routed on a PCB, through a backplane or over standard CAT5 cable for distances of up to 10 meters between switch nodes. Two 2.5 Gbps full-duplex links can also be bundled to create a 5 Gbps full-duplex link.

StarFabric supports three routing methods. Address routing, which allows PCI designs to be transparently migrated to StarFabric, supports PCI traffic over the fabric without requiring any software development. Existing PCI designs can quickly take advantage of StarFabric's performance and scalability through address routing, and can further enhance performance, features and reliability by moving to native StarFabric routing methods at a future time.

Path routing and multicast routing are StarFabric native routing methods that introduce advanced features like redundancy through failover, Quality of Service, security mechanisms and multi-processor fabrics. Dolphin provides software tools and libraries to take full advantage of these advanced features.

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