OXPCIe952, PCI Express to Dual Serial and Parallel Port
Highlights
Part of the Expresso family of high performance PCI
Express devices, the OXPCIe952 is a single chip dual
serial and parallel port device in a range of 2, 4 & 8
port solutions, that includes the OXPCIe954 &
OXPCIe958.
General Features
o Dual UART or single UART plus IEEE1284 parallel
port configurations
o PCIe x1 end-point
- Integrated 2.5 GT/s SerDes
o 11 x 11mm2, 120-pin TFBGA package
o Typical Power: 200 mWatts
Incorporating PLX Technology’s ultra high
performance Oxford 950 UART technology, the
device combines outstanding system performance
with unrivalled flexibility for even the most
demanding of serial applications.
Key Features
o Standards Compliant
- PCI Express Base Specification, r1.1 (backwards
compatible with PCIe r1.0a)
- PCI Power Management Spec, r1.2
- ExpressCard, Mini Card & AIC compatible
- MSI/MSI-X compatible
Complete with the Oxide development tools and
certified device drivers, the OXPCIe952 is easy to
design-in and the ideal connectivity solution for a
diverse range of products including: PC Add-on
Cards, Industrial PC, Point of Sale Terminals,
Industrial Control, Building Automation and Network
Management.
- ASPM (L0S, L1) Link power management
o High Performance
- PLX’s Oxford 950 UART
- DMA/bus mastering of both UARTs
- Asynchronous baud rates up to 15 Mbps
- 128-byte deep transmit/receive FIFO
- 9, 8, 7, 6 & 5-bit data framing
- Automated in & out-of-band flow control
- Advanced FIFO fill management
- IEEE1284, SPP/EPP/ECP compliant parallel port
Accelerate your product development and time to
market with Oxide and PLX Technology’s easy to
design-in, high performance serial connectivity
solutions that just work.
o Flexibility
- RS232, RS422, RS485 and IrDA operation
- Flexible clock pre-scaler from 1 to 31.875
- Programmable RS485 Turn-around delay
- 450 through 950 software compatibility
- 8 user-configurable GPIOs/PWMs
- Device parameters configurable via EEPROM
- 1.8V, 2.5V or 3.3V UART & GPIO I/O voltage
o Robust Operation
- Operation from a single 3.3 V supply
- Industrial temperature range -40°C to 85°C
o Broad Device Driver Support
- Windows Vista/XP/2K
- WinCE 4.2/5.0/6.0
- Linux 2.4/2.6
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