
PCI EXPRESS CARD ELECTROMECHANICAL SPECIFICATION, REV. 1.1
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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................7
1.1. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS ..................................................................................................... 7
1.2. REFERENCE DOCUMENTS ..................................................................................................... 9
1.3. SPECIFICATION CONTENTS................................................................................................... 9
1.4. OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................................. 10
1.5. ELECTRICAL OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................... 10
1.6. MECHANICAL OVERVIEW ................................................................................................... 11
2. AUXILIARY SIGNALS........................................................................................................13
2.1. REFERENCE CLOCK............................................................................................................... 14
2.1.1. Low Voltage Swing, Differential Clocks .................................................................... 14
2.1.2. Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC)............................................................................... 15
2.1.3. REFCLK AC Specifications........................................................................................ 16
2.1.4. REFCLK Phase Jitter Specification ........................................................................... 19
2.2. PERST# SIGNAL ...................................................................................................................... 20
2.2.1. Initial Power-Up (G3 to L0)....................................................................................... 20
2.2.2. Power Management States (S0 to S3/S4 to S0) .......................................................... 21
2.2.3. Power Down............................................................................................................... 22
2.3. WAKE# SIGNAL ...................................................................................................................... 24
2.4. SMBUS (OPTIONAL)............................................................................................................... 27
2.4.1. Capacitive Load of High-power SMBus Lines ........................................................... 27
2.4.2. Minimum Current Sinking Requirements for SMBus Devices.................................... 28
2.4.3. SMBus “Back Powering” Considerations ................................................................. 28
2.4.4. Power-on Reset .......................................................................................................... 28
2.5. JTAG PINS (OPTIONAL) ......................................................................................................... 29
2.6. AUXILIARY SIGNAL PARAMETRIC SPECIFICATIONS ................................................... 30
2.6.1. DC Specifications....................................................................................................... 30
2.6.2. AC Specifications ....................................................................................................... 31
3. HOT INSERTION AND REMOVAL..................................................................................33
3.1. SCOPE .................................................................................................................................... 33
3.2. PRESENCE DETECT................................................................................................................ 33
4. ELECTRICAL REQUIREMENTS .....................................................................................35
4.1. POWER SUPPLY REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................................... 35
4.2. POWER CONSUMPTION ........................................................................................................ 36
4.3. POWER SUPPLY SEQUENCING............................................................................................ 37
4.4. POWER SUPPLY DECOUPLING............................................................................................ 38
4.5. ELECTRICAL TOPOLOGIES AND LINK DEFINITIONS .................................................... 38
4.5.1. Topologies .................................................................................................................. 38
4.5.2. Link Definition............................................................................................................ 40
4.6. ELECTRICAL BUDGETS ........................................................................................................ 41
4.6.1. AC Coupling Capacitors ............................................................................................ 42
4.6.2. Insertion Loss Values (Voltage Transfer Function) ................................................... 42
4.6.3. Jitter Values................................................................................................................ 44
4.6.4. Crosstalk..................................................................................................................... 46
4.6.5. Lane-to-Lane Skew..................................................................................................... 46