1. Silicom SFP+ 10G Mezzenine Cards
Nov 15th 2016
-Silicom Confidential-

2. Silicom SFP+ 10G Mezz Cards: Common features
Based on Intel Fortville X710-BM2/XL710-BM1, Dual/Quad 10GbE Ethernet Controller
Quad/Dual/Single 10GbE options
Supports OCP Mezzanine card 2.0 Design Specification 1.00
Supports PCI-Express Base Specification Revision 3.0 (8GT/s)
PCI Express Gen 3.0 X8 lanes in Connector A
Power Capability: Legacy Implementation of Mezzanine Card (P12V_AUX)
NC-SI
Network virtualization – Offloads (VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve)
Host base virtualization – VMDq and SR-IOV

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Silicom Quad Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Mechanical description
The Mechanical outline conforms with base Design: P6 - Quad ports 10G/25G SFP+
Stack Type Support: Type 3
Controller IC on secondary side.
The Product includes Passive heatsink
-Silicom Confidential-

4. Silicom Quad Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Block Diagram
Similar Quad Port adapter, HDVT results Typ 6.24W with SR , 6.60W with LR
Max Power Consumption:
Max Without transceivers 6.20W
Max With SR transceivers 9.66W
Max With LR transceivers 10.44W

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Silicom Quad Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Ports & LEDs
LEDs definition:
Each Port has 2 LEDs to indicate link status and speed.
Link: Physical link Speed:
Green stay on – physical link on with 10G Speed
Yellow stay on - physical link on with 1G Speed
Off – physical link off.
Link /ACT: Logic Link/Activity, Green
Green stay on – logic link up, no activity
Green blinking – logic link up, activity
Off – logic link off
-Silicom Confidential-

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Silicom Dual Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Mechanical description
The Mechanical outline conforms with base Design: P1 - Single/Dual ports 10G/25G SFP+/SFP28
Stack Type Support: Type 1
Controller IC on Primary side.
The Product includes Passive heatsink
-Silicom Confidential-

7. Silicom Dual Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Block Diagram
Similar Dual Port adapter, HDVT results Typ 4.62W with SR , 4.68W with LR
Max Power Consumption:
Max Without transceivers 5.63W
Max With SR transceivers 7.30W
Max With LR transceivers 7.60W

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Silicom Dual Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Ports & LEDs
LEDs definition:
Each Port has 2 LEDs to indicate link status and speed.
Link: Physical link Speed:
Green stay on – physical link on with 10G Speed
Yellow stay on - physical link on with 1G Speed
Off – physical link off.
Link /ACT: Logic Link/Activity, Green
Green stay on – logic link up, no activity
Green blinking – logic link up, activity
Off – logic link off
-Silicom Confidential-

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Silicom Single Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Mechanical description
The Mechanical outline conforms with base Design: P1 - Single/Dual ports 10G/25G SFP+/SFP28
Stack Type Support: Type 1
Controller IC on Primary side.
The Product includes Passive heatsink
-Silicom Confidential-

10. Silicom Single Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Block Diagram
Max Power Consumption:
Max Without transceivers 5.41W
Max With SR transceivers 6.275W
Max With LR transceivers 6.396W

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Silicom Single Port SFP+ 10G Mezz Card: Ports & LEDs
LEDs definition:
Port has 2 LEDs to indicate link status and speed.
Link: Physical link Speed:
Green stay on – physical link on with 10G Speed
Yellow stay on - physical link on with 1G Speed
Off – physical link off.
Link /ACT: Logic Link/Activity, Green
Green stay on – logic link up, no activity
Green blinking – logic link up, activity
Off – logic link off
-Silicom Confidential-

12. Silicom SFP+ 10G Mezz Cards: FRU EEPROM
The adapter shall support FRU EEPROM on Mezzanine card
Mezz FRU interface: A18, A19
FRU EEPROM: ATMEL AT24C01C (1Kbits)
Slave Address: 0xA2
Mezz ID Byte : 0x00 (8 lanes of PCIe on Connector A)
Mezz Capability Byte : 0x00 (Single Host PCIe Mezz)

13. Silicom SFP+ 10G Mezz Cards: Thermal Reporting Interface
The adapter shall support On die temperature sensing interface
Thermal report Interface: A75, A76
Thermal report Type: On die Temperature sensing
Thermal sensing device: TMP421
Slave Address: 0x3E

14. Silicom SFP+ 10G Mezz Cards: Management Connection
The Mezzanine configured to support NC-SI to BMC connection:
NC-SI over RMII for pass-through traffic,
Supports NC-SI commands specified in “Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) Spec, v1.0.1“
IPv6 support

15. Silicom SFP+ 10G Mezz Cards: Media Support
SFI interfaces supports 10GBase-R PCS and 10 Gigabit PMA in order to connect with SFP+ to:
10GBASE-SR Single / Dual speed
10GBASE-LR Single / Dual speed
1000Base-SX
1000Base-LX
1000Base-T
Direct Attach