Cyclone Microsystems' PCIe2-460 Dual-Host, Eight Slot PCI Express Expansion Backplane allows system developers to expand two host PCI Express Gen2 slot to eight additional PCI Express Gen2 slots via two Gen2 x16 (80 Gb/s) PCI Express Expansion Cables. Alternatively, the two cables can be connected to separate host PCs, providing four x16 PCIe expansion slots per host PC. The eight x16 PCIe slots are double-width spacing, providing ample room for eight full length, double-wide PCIe cards such as the latest generation GPUs. The backplane is optionally supported by an Intelligent Expansion Chassis Monitor to report temperature, fan speed and power supply parameters via HTTP or SNMP.

PCIe2-2711 Block Diagram