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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« on: June 21, 2010, 06:14:21 PM »
Quote from: Hattig;566171
Well spotted.

Two GigE controllers and a 10GigE controller?

I'm sure that they're not all connected (as they'll require off-chip PHYs which might be quite expensive for the 10GigE controller, and they contend for SERDES ports with the PCIe controller), but these are nice things to have :-).


The ethernet controllers share the SERDES pins with the PCI-Express lanes. Considering what we're to believe about the rest of the system in terms of PCI-Express slots and onboard devices, I'd guess that nearly all of the SERDES lanes are consumed by PCI-Express. In the AW.net discussion I remember someone saying there was a Realtek ethernet chip on board as well, though I thought that one odd... Go PCI-Express to it, or use that lane for an SGMII to a phy, I'd go straight to a phy...
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