Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Wandboard PCI-Express Adapter: Preliminary PCB 3D Images

I have been designing an adapter board to connect two Wandboards via their PCI-Express ports. The design will be finished by the end of this week, after which it will be sent in for manufacturing! This post is simply to show off two quick 3D renderings of the boards so far.

We will use this board for testing and benchmarking the potential throughput of the Freescale i.MX6 processor. The gigabit ethernet on the i.MX6 is limited to ~400 Mbps according to the datasheet, but we should be able to attain close to 5 Gbps with extremely low latency using the PCI-Express Gen 2 x1 port!

More details will follow when the board has been manufactured and tests are complete!




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5 comments:

  1. Unknown24 January 2014 at 04:12

    What PCB tools did you use for this? If Eagle, would you be willing to share the library that has the EDM connector layout?

    Thanks,
    Mike

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    1. Unknown12 March 2014 at 10:26

      Hi Mike, there is an earlier post on this blog to the connector library - it's in Altium though!

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  2. Joerg12 February 2014 at 17:21

    Hi,
    are there any news on this topic?

    Kind regards
    Joerg

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    1. Unknown12 March 2014 at 10:31

      Hi Joerg, I have made some progress! I am waiting for boards to be manufactured and I will report back soon! Thanks for your interest!

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    2. Unknown2 April 2014 at 15:44

      Joerg, please see my latest post for the completed board! I'll be posting test results in the next week or two along with my experiences getting kernel drivers working, etc...

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