Paper Title
Study And Analysis Of Serial Rapidio Interface In T4240
Abstract
There is growing need for processors that provide adequate support for complex interfaces and compute intensive
operations. QorIQ T-series of processors provide support for such interfaces. However, there is a growing need to replace its
existing Peripheral Component Interconnect-Express (PCI-E) with the next generation Serial RapidIO interface technology
to provide higher bandwidth and better system concurrency. With this backdrop, the specifications of T4240 and its interface
support for RapidIO have been analyzed and it is observed that by superseding PCI-E (Gen 3) with RapidIO (Gen 3), the
bandwidth increased from 32Gbps to 40Gbps. RapidIO enabled processors are therefore better suited for performance
intensive operations such as in aerospace and military where precision demands prominence and speed assumes gigantic
proportions. Additionally SRIO technology has the potential to enable highly scalable next generation DataCenter designs as
well as BigData solutions where one of the critical needs is a highly scalable low latency fabric architecture.