PCI Express* Support

12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2

ID	Date	Version	Classification
655258	06/15/2023		Public

The S-processor PCI Express* has two interfaces:

16-lane (x16) port supporting PCIE to gen 5.0 or below that can also be configured as multiple ports at narrower widths.

4-lane (x4) port supporting PCIE gen 4.0 or below.

The H processor Line PCI Express* has two interfaces:

One 8-lane (x8) port supporting PCIE to gen 4.0 or below. This interface is available on certain SKU

Two 4-lane (x4) port supporting PCIE gen 4.0 or below.

The P processor Line PCI Express* has two interfaces:

Two 4-lane (x4) port supporting PCIE gen 4.0 or below.

The U15 processor PCI Express* has two interfaces:

Two 4-lane (x4) port supporting PCIE gen 4.0 or below.

The U9 processor PCI Express* has one interface:

One 4-lane (x4) port supporting PCIE gen 4.0 or below.

The processor supports the following:

Hierarchical PCI-compliant configuration mechanism for downstream devices.

Traditional PCI style traffic (asynchronous snooped, PCI ordering).

PCI Express* extended configuration space. The first 256 bytes of configuration space aliases directly to the PCI Compatibility configuration space. The remaining portion of the fixed 4-KB block of memory-mapped space above that (starting at 100h) is known as extended configuration space.

PCI Express* Enhanced Access Mechanism. Accessing the device configuration space in a flat memory-mapped fashion.

Automatic discovery, negotiation, and training of link out of reset.

Multiple Virtual Channel for Gen 4 port only*.

64-bit downstream address format, but the processor never generates an address above 4096 GB (Bits 63:43 will always be zeros).

64-bit upstream address format, but the processor responds to upstream read transactions to addresses above 4096 GB (addresses where any of Bits 63:43 are nonzero) with an Unsupported Request response. Upstream write transactions to addresses above 4096 GB will be dropped.

Re-issues Configuration cycles that have been previously completed with the Configuration Retry status.

PCI Express* reference clock is a 100-MHz differential clock.

Power Management Event (PME) functions.

Modern standby

Dynamic width capability.

Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI and MSI-X) messages.

Lane reversal

Advanced Error Reporting (AER)

MCTP VDM tunneling.

ACS - Access control services

Hotplug is supported on PEG60/62 only. It is not supported on PEG10/11

Precision Time Measurement (PTM) - This feature is supported on PEG60/62 with the exception of ECN for byte ordering of the PTM value not being supported. PEG10/11 do support ECN for byte ordering

The S processor supports the configurations shown in the following tables:

PCI Express* 16 - Lane Bifurcation and Lane Reversal Mapping

Bifurcation	Link Width		CFG Signals			Lanes
Bifurcation	0:1:0	0:1:1	CFG [6]	CFG [5]	CFG [2]	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
PCIe controller						PCIe 010
1x16	x16	N/A	1	1	1	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1x16 Reversed	x16	N/A	1	1	0	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
PCIe controller						PCIe 010								PCIe 011
2x8	x8	x8	1	0	1	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
PCIe controller						PCIe 011								PCIe 010
2x8 Reversed	x8	x8	1	0	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Notes: For CFG bus details, refer to Reset and Miscellaneous Signals. Support is also provided for narrow width and use devices with lower number of lanes (that is, usage on x4 configuration), however further bifurcation is not supported. In case that more than one device is connected, the device with the highest lane count, should always be connected to the lower lanes, as follows: Connect lane 0 of 1st device to lane 0. Connect lane 0 of 2nd device to lane 8. For reversal lanes, for example: When using 1x8, the 8 lane device should use lanes 8:15, so lane 15 will be connected to lane 0 of the Device.

S- Processor PCI Express* 4 - Lane Reversal Mapping

Bifurcation	Link Width	CFG Signals	Lanes
Bifurcation	0:6:0	CFG [14]	0	1	2	3
PCIe controller			PCIe 060
1x4	x4	1	0	1	2	3
1x4 Reversed	x4	0	3	2	1	0
Note:PCIe* Port60 is a single x4 port without bifurcation capabilities, thus bifurcation pin straps are not applicable.

The H/P/U15 processor Lines supports the configurations shown in the following tables:

H-Processor Line PCI Express* 8 - Lane Reversal Mapping

Bifurcation	Link Width		CFG Signals			Lanes
Bifurcation	0:1:0	0:1:1	CFG [6]	CFG [5]	CFG [2]	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
PCIe controller						PCIe 010
1x8	x8	N/A	1	1	1	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1x8 Reversed	x8	N/A	1	1	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Notes: For CFG bus details, refer to Reset and Miscellaneous Signals. Support is also provided for narrow width and use devices with lower number of lanes (that is, usage on x4 configuration), however further bifurcation is not supported. For reversal lanes, for example: When using 1x4, the 4 lane device should use lanes 4:7, so lane 7 will be connected to lane 0 of the Device.

The H/P/U15 processor supports the configurations shown in the following tables:

H/P/U15-Processor Line PCI Express* 4 - Lane Reversal Mapping

Bifurcation	Link Width		CFG Signals		Lanes
Bifurcation	0:6:0	0:6:2	CFG [14]	CFG [15]	0	1	2	3
PCIe Controller					PCIe 060
1x4	x4	NA	1	1	0	1	2	3
1x4 Reversed	x4	NA	0	1	3	2	1	0
PCIe Controller					PCIe 062
1x4	NA	x4	1	1	0	1	2	3
1x4 Reversed	NA	x4	1	0	3	2	1	0

The U9 processor supports the configurations shown in the following tables:

U9-Processor PCI Express* 4 - Lane Reversal Mapping

Bifurcation	Link Width	CFG Signals	Lanes
Bifurcation	0:6:0	CFG [14]	0	1	2	3
PCIe controller			PCIe 060
1x4	x4	1	0	1	2	3
1x4 Reversed	x4	0	3	2	1	0

PCI Express* Maximum Transfer Rates and Theoretical Bandwidth

PCI Express* Generation	Encoding	Maximum Transfer Rate [GT/s]	Theoretical Bandwidth [GB/s]
PCI Express* Generation	Encoding	Maximum Transfer Rate [GT/s]	S/H/P/U x4	S/H x8	S x16
Gen 1	8b/10b	2.5	1.0	2.0	4.0
Gen 2	8b/10b	5	2.0	4.0	8.0
Gen 3	128b/130b	8	3.9	7.9	15.8
Gen 4	128b/130b	16	7.9	15.8	31.5
Gen 5	128b/130b	32¹	15.8¹	31.5¹	63¹
Note:1. Transfer rate and max theoretical Bandwidth are not final and could be lowered.

The above table summarizes the transfer rates and theoretical bandwidth of PCI Express* link.