PCI EXPRESS Bus Extenders .... Bus Isolation, Regular, Tall, Right Angle and Wearout extenders ...

PEX16IX is a PCI Express X16 Bus Isolation Extender that allows the user to test the sixteen channel PCI Express add-on boards quickly, without having to power the system down each time. It is especially designed to save valuable labor and time in the production environment. It is also a great tool for engineers, during product development, where changes and testing are often required. It also serves to protect the motherboard from damage caused by bad board under test. It has many outstanding features such as, local or external power and signal isolation controls, fused power lines with short circuit sensing and etc. It also allows external voltage margin and current measurement. The dimension is 8.4" L x 2.3" H (not including the PCI bracket). PEX16IX Specification PEX16IX user's manual

PEX8IX is a PCI Express X8 Bus Isolation Extender that allows the user to test the eight channel PCI Express add-on boards quickly, without having to power the system down each time. It is especially designed to save valuable labor and time in the production environment. It is also a great tool for engineers, during product development, where changes and testing are often required. It also serves to protect the motherboard from damage caused by bad board under test. It has many outstanding features such as, local or external power and signal isolation controls, fused power lines with short circuit sensing and etc. It also allows external voltage margin and current measurement. The dimension is 7.1" L x 2.3" H (not including the PCI bracket). PEX8IX Specification PEX8IX user's manual

PEX1IX is a PCI Express X1 Bus Isolation Extender that allows the user to test the single channel PCI Express add-on boards quickly, without having to power the system down each time. It is especially designed to save valuable labor and time in the production environment. It is also a great tool for engineers during product development, where changes and testing are often required. It also serves to protect the motherboard from damage caused by bad board under test. It has many outstanding features such as, local or external power and signal isolation controls, fused power lines with short circuit sensing and etc. It also allows external voltage margin and current measurement. The dimension is 5.9" L x 2.3" H (not including the PCI bracket).

PEXP8-EX is a regular PCI EXPRESS X8 extender. It features pluggable fuses, power indicating LEDs and external power input connection. By changing the position of the pluggable fuses, it allows power from the motherboard or from an external source to power the PCI EXPRESS I/O board, on top of the extender. Therefore, the voltage margin can be performed through an external power source and current measurement can be performed by removing the fuse and bridged with an ammeter. Precision current measurement can also be performed by adding Current Sensing Resistor Pads next to the fuses. The PEXP8-EX can be ordered with optional header pins, for signal probing, or with a connector on the solder side (A side). Add -H for the header pin option or the -T for the additional connector option. The dimension of the extender is 4.13" L x 2.37" H (not including the PCI bracket).

PEX16LX is a PCI EXPRESS X16 tall extender. It is GEN1 and GEN2 compatible. It features pluggable fuses, power indicating LEDs, external LED connection and external power input connection. By changing the position of the pluggable fuses, it allows power from the motherboard or from an external source to power the PCI EXPRESS I/O board, on top of the extender. Therefore, voltage margin test can be performed through external power source and current measurement can be performed by removing the fuse and bridged with an ammeter. Precision current measurement can also be performed by adding Current Sensing Resistor to pads next to the fuses on A side. The gold finger section can be modified to fit X1, X4 or X8 sizes. The dimension of the extender is 5.7" L x 7.1" H (not including the PCI bracket).

PEXP1-RX1, PEXP4-RX1, PEXP8-RX1, PEXP16-RX1 and PEXP16-RX1E are the right angle risers for the PCI Express X1, X4, X8 and X16 buses. The connector is soldered on the component side (B side) of the board. When an I/O board is inserted, the component side of the I/O board will face down, towards the motherboard.. All these risers have the same height, at 1.22". They are designed to line up with the lowest panel cutout of a 2U chassis. The connector center height is 1.05", and the widths are 1.72", 2.27", 2.94", 4.24" and 5.79"respectively. The PEXP16-RX1E is extended to the edge of the chassis, with holes for easier mounting.

PEXP1-RX2, PEXP4-RX2, PEXP8-RX2, PEXP16-RX2 and PEXP16-RX2E are the right angle risers for the PCI Express X1, X4, X8 and X16 buses. The connector is soldered on the component side (B side) of the board. When an I/O board is inserted, the component side of the I/O board will face down, towards the motherboard. All these risers have the same height, at 2.02". They are designed to line up with the middle panel cutout of a 2U chassis. The connector center height is 1.85", and the widths are 1.72", 2.27", 2.94", 4.24" and 5.79" respectively. The PEXP16-RX2E is extended to the edge of the chassis, with holes for easier mounting.

PEXP1-RX3, PEXP4-RX3, PEXP8-RX3 and PEXP16-RX3 are the right angle risers for the PCI Express X1, X4, X8 and X16 buses. The connector is soldered on the component side (B side) of the board. When an I/O board is inserted, the component side of the I/O board will face down, towards the motherboard.. All these risers have the same height, at 2.82". They are designed to line up with the top panel cutout of a three cut 2U chassis. The connector center height is 2.65", and the widths are 1.72", 2.27", 2.94", 4.24" respectively.

PEXP8-RX1A is a PCI EXPRESS X8 right angle extender. The connector on the riser is facing the A side. The connector center is 0.635" ( 16.13mm) tall. The overall dimension of the riser is 3.01"(76.45mm) L x 1.0"(25.4mm) H

PEXP8-RX2A is a PCI EXPRESS X8 right angle extender. The connector on the riser is facing the A side. The connector center is 1.36" ( 34.65mm) tall. The overall dimension of the riser is 4.14"(105.05mm) L x 1.53"(38.78mm) H

PEXP8-SX-SW is a PCI EXPRESS X8 reverse lane extender. The connector is mounted on top of the riser. The transmit and receive differential pairs of lane 0-7 are reverse routed to lane 7-0. The signal direction (TX, RX) and polarity are not reversed. The overall dimension of the riser is 2.98"(75.75mm) L x 1.96"(49.75mm) H

PEXP16-SX-SW is a PCI EXPRESS X16 reverse lane extender. The connector is mounted on top of the riser. The transmit and receive differential pairs of lane 0-15 are reverse routed to lane 15-0. The signal direction (TX, RX) and polarity are not reversed. The overall dimension of the riser is 4.4"(111.51mm) L x 2.74"(69.60mm) H

PEXP1-SX, PEXP4-SX, PEXP8-SX and PEXP16-SX are wearout extenders, designed to go on top of the PCI Express Bus Isolation or other extenders. These are short and low cost extenders with heavy duty connectors of 2000 - 3000 insertion cycles. Their purpose is to prolong the life of other connector contacts or gold fingers in heavily used environments. All the wearout extenders have the same height, at 1.05", and the widths are 1.72", 2.27", 2.94", 4.24" respectively.

PEXP4-SX-4/1, PEXP8-SX-8/4,PEXP16-SX-16/8 and PEXP16-SX-16/1 are lane converters. These extenders are designed to have higher channel connectors and lower channel PCB gold fingers. These extenders have heavy duty connectors of 2000 - 3000 insertion cycles. All extenders have the same height, at 1.05", and the widths are 2.27", 2.94", 4.24" respectively. Other combinations of lane reduction extenders are possible with slight modifications, upon request.

PE-FLEX1, PE-FLEX4, PE-FLEX8 and PE-FLEX16 are flexible extenders for PCI Express X1, X4, X8 and X16 buses. The Minimum cable length is 1". User can order any cable length up to 15". If not specified, the standard cable length defaults to 3". The overall extender length with a 3" cable is about 4.25". Parts shown below are the F-M versions. The M-M and the CX (TX/RX crossed) versions are also available. GEN2 compatible cables are also available upon request. The GEN2 version is limited to 12" maximum cable length.

PE-FLEX16R, PE-FLEX8R,PE-FLEX4R,PE-FLEX1R are right angle flexible extenders for PCI Express X16, X8, X4 and X1 buses. The Minimum cable length is 1". User can order any cable length up to 15" (12" for GEN 2 version). For the PE-FLEX16R, there are two versions, with connector mounted at the B side (-B) or the A side (-A). If not specified, the standard cable length defaults to 3" and the connector defaults to the B side. The X8, X4 and X1 are B side facing only. The overall extender length with a 3" cable is about 4.2".

PEXP8-OX is an offset PCI EXPRESS X8 extender. The connector on the top is shifted 3.0" into the chassis. The dimension of the extender is 7.165" L x 3.3" H (not including the PCI bracket).

APEPRXB is a PCI/PCI-EXPRESS/PCI, 3 in 1 right angle riser. It is designed specifically for Intel Adaptive slot as in the SE7230NH1, SE7221BK1 and S3000AH series of motherboards. It plugs into the adaptive slot at the slot 6 position of the motherboard. The top PCIX connector connects to the PCIX section of the adaptive slot. The middle connector is a PCI-Express X8 connector that connects directly to the PCI-Express section of the adaptive slot. The bottom connector is connected to the PCIX slot on the motherboard slot 5 via a wide cable. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for chassis with three horizontal cutouts that line up typically with the slot 6 position of the motherboards. Picture shown above is P/N: APEPRXB-888-303-1. It is populated with a PCI-Express_X8 connector and two PCI-64 bit 3.3V connectors. The top PCI connector is located at 2.68", the middle PE connector is located at 1.88", and the bottom PCI connector is located at 1.08" height.. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.86"H x 7.69"W. All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The wide cable can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI slots on the motherboard (one inch typical). For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix.

EEERXB16 is a three slot PCI Express X16 right angle riser. It can support up to three independent PCI Express X16 buses. It usually plugs into the slot 6 position of the motherboard. The middle PE-X16 connector connects directly to the riser's gold finger. The top and the bottom PE connectors are connected to two other PE buses on the M/B via two flexible cables. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. The bottom connetor sits on a add-on PCB, which protrude about 0.062" toward the B side. This riser is designed for chassis with three horizontal cutouts that line up with the typical slot 6 position of the motherboard. Any of the PE connectors on the riser can be configured to X1, X4, X8 or X16. The connector centers are 1.08", 1.88" and 2.68" height. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.91"H x 7.10"W. All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The cables can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PE slots on the motherboard. For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix.

EEPRXB16 is a PCI Express /PCI EXPRESS/ PCI combo right angle riser. It can support up to three independent buses. It usually plugs into the slot 6 position of the motherboard. The middle PE-X16 connector connects directly to the riser's gold finger. The top PE connector and the bottom PCI connector are connected to other PE and PCI buses on the M/B via two flexible cables. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. The bottom connetor sits on a add-on PCB and use a low profile PCI connector. This riser is designed for chassis with three horizontal cutouts that line up with the typical slot 6 position of the motherboard. The PE connectors on the riser can be configured to X1, X4, X8 or X16. The PCI connector can be 3.3V, 5V, 64 bit or 32 bit connector. The connector centers are 1.08", 1.88" and 2.68" height.. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.91"H x 7.10"W. All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The cables can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI and PE slots on the motherboard. For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix.

PEPRX16 is a PCI/PCI-EXPRESS/PCI, 3 in 1 right angle riser. It plugs into a PCI-Express_X16 slot. The middle PCI-Express_X16 connector connects directly to the gold fingers. The bottom connector is connected to a PCI slot on the motherboard via a wide cable. The top connector has most of its signals connected to the bottom connector, except some dedicated signals that are connected to another PCI slot on the motherboard via a narrow cable. User can order the riser with PE-X1, X4, X8 or X16 and PCI-32 or PCI 64 connectors. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for chassis with horizontal cutouts that line up with a PCI-Express_X16 slot on the motherboard. Picture shown above is P/N: PEPRX16-8X8-303-1/3. It is populated with a PCI-Express_X16 connector and two PCI-64 bit 3.3V connectors. The top PCI connector is located at 2.68", the middle PE connector is located at 1.88", and the bottom PCI connector is located at 1.08" height.. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.91"H x 7.10"W. All height dimension are referenced to the bottom of the board. The wide and narrow cables can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI slots on the motherboard. The two PCI slots on the motherboards that are used for the connection must be controlled by the same channel of a PCI bridge controller on the motherboard. For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix. A power option (-W) is available to provide more 12V, 5V and 3.3V to the connectors on the riser. It accepts the power from a 4 pin PC power connector for the floppy drive.

EPPRX16 is a PCI-EXPRESS/PCI/PCI, 3 in 1 right angle riser. It plugs into a PCI-Express_X16 slot. The top PCI-Express_X16 connector connects directly to the gold fingers. The bottom connector is connected to a PCI slot on the motherboard via a wide cable. The middle connector has most of its signals connected to the bottom connector, except some dedicated signals that are connected to another PCI slot on the motherboard via a narrow cable. User can order the riser with PE-X1, X4, X8 or X16 and PCI-32 or PCI 64 connectors. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for chassis with horizontal cutouts that line up with a PCI-Express_X16 slot on the motherboard. Picture shown above is P/N: EPPRX16-X88-033-1/3. It is populated with a PCI-Express_X16 connector and two PCI-64 bit 3.3V connectors. The top PE connector is located at 2.68", the middle PCI connector is located at 1.88", and the bottom PCI connector is located at 1.08" height. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.91"H x 7.10"W. All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The wide and narrow cables can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI slots on the motherboard. The two PCI slots on the motherboards that are used for the connection must be controlled by the same channel of a PCI bridge controller on the motherboard. For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix. A power option (-W) is available to provide more 12V, 5V and 3.3V to the connectors on the riser. It accepts the power from a 4 pin PC power connector for the floppy drive.

EPERXP is a PCI-EXPRESS/PCI/PCI-EXPRESS, 3 in 1 right angle riser. It plugs into a PCI slot. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.75"H x 7.09"W. The top PCI-Express connector connects to a PCI-Express slot on the motherboard behind the riser via a wide cable. The middle PCI connector tie directly to the goldfinger. The bottom PCI-Express connector connects to another PCI-Express slot on the motherboard via a narrower cable. User can order the riser with PE-X1, X4, X8 or X16 and PCI-32 or PCI 64 connectors. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for chassis with three horizontal cutouts that line up with a PCI slot on the motherboard. Picture shown above is P/N: EPERXP-X81-030-2/3. It is populated with a PE-X16, a PCI-64 bit 3.3V and a PE-X1 connectors. The top PE connector is located at 2.52", the middle PCI connector is located at 1.72", and the bottom PE connector is located at 0.92" height.. All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The wide and narrow cables can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI-Express slots on the motherboard. For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix.

EPPRXP is a PCI-EXPRESS/PCI/PCI, 3 in 1 right angle riser. It plugs into a PCI slot. The overall dimension of the main board assembly is 2.75"H x 7.10"W. The top PCI-Express connector connects to a PCI-Express slot on the motherboard behind the riser via a wide cable. The middle PCI-32 connector tie directly to the goldfinger. The bottom PCI connector (32 or 64) connects to another PCI slot on the motherboard via another wide cable. User can order the riser with PE-X1, X4, X8 or X16 and PCI-32 or PCI 64 connectors. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for chassis with three horizontal cutouts that line up with a PCI slot on the motherboard. Picture shown above is P/N: EPPRXP-X44-055-2/1. It is populated with a PE-X16 and two PCI-32 bit 5V connectors. The top PE connector is located at 2.52", the middle PCI connector is located at 1.72", and the bottom PCI connector is located at 0.92" height.. All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The wide cables can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI-Express slots on the motherboard. The bottom PCI connector can be connected to a different PCI bus than the PCI slot where the riser plugs in. For part number suffix definition please refer to faq.htm#suffix.

ERXP is a single PCI-EXPRESS X8 riser with PCI 64 bit gold finger. It is designed to plug into a PCI slot with a cable extension to a nearby PCI-Express X8 slot.. The overall dimension of the riser board is 1.09"H x 6.95"W. . User can order the riser with a PE-X1, X4 or X8 oconnector. The connector is mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed to fit into a 1U chassis. The connector center height is 0.926". All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The PCI-Express cable can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI-Express slot on the motherboard.

EERXB16 is a dual PCI-EXPRESS X16 riser with PCI Express X16 gold finger. It is designed to plug into a PE-X16 slot with a cable extension to another nearby PCI-Express X16 slot.. The overall dimension of the riser board is 2.16"H x 5.07"W. User can order the riser with any combination of PE-X1, X4, X8 or X16 connectors. All connectors mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for 1.5U or 2U chassis. The connector center heights are 1.97" and 1.17". All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The PCI-Express cable can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI-Express slot on the motherboard.

EPRX16B is a PCI-EXPRESS X16 and a PCI-32 riser with PCI Express X16 gold finger. It is designed to plug into a PE-X16 slot with a cable extension to a nearby PCI-32 bit slot.. The overall dimension of the riser board is 2.13"H x 5.15"W. User can order the riser with a PE-X1, X4, X8 or X16 connector. All connectors are mounted on the B side of the riser card. This riser is designed for 1.5U or 2U chassis. The connector center heights are 1.94" and 1.14". All height dimensions are referenced to the bottom of the board. The PCI-32 cable can be ordered in various lengths, depending on the location of the PCI-32 slot on the motherboard.

PEX1IX-MINI is a PCI EXPRESS X1 to PCI Express Mini Bus Isolation adapter. It features power and signal isolation as the PEX1IX board with direct interface to the PCI Express Mini bus. An extended area above the PE-Mini connector can be used to hold the PE-Mini card down. The cutout on the extended area allows the user to access the back side of the PE-Mini card. It combines all the features of the PEX1IX card and the PEX1-Mini card. The dimension of the extender is 5.9" L x 4.75" H (not including the PCI bracket).

PEX1-MINI is a PCI EXPRESS X1 to PCI Express Mini interface adapter. It features power indicating LEDs, LAN activity LEDs and external power input connections. By changing the position of the power jumpers, it allows powers from the motherboard or external sources to power the PCI EXPRESS Mini card. Therefore, voltage margins can be performed through external power sources and current measurements can be performed by removing the jumpers and bridged the pins with an ammeter. Precision current measurement can also be performed by replacing the zero ohm resistors with Current Sensing Resistors. The dimension of the extender is 2.95" L x 2.13" H (not including the PCI bracket). Half -Mini size is also available.

PE-MINI -FLEX is a PCI Express Mini flexible extender. It features external power input connections. By removing the power jumpers, it allows powers from external sources to power the PCI EXPRESS Mini card. Therefore, voltage margins can be performed through external power sources. Current measurements can be performed by removing the zero ohm resistors on the power rails and bridged the pads with an ammeter. Precision current measurement can also be performed by replacing the zero ohm resistors with optional Current Sensing Resistors. This assembly consists of three parts, a bottom pieces that plug into a PE-Mini connector, a set of flexible cables and a top piece with a PE-Mini connector. Half-Mini size is also available at both ends.

PEMINI2X1 is a PCI Express Mini to PCI Express X1 adapter. It features power on/off switch, power LEDs and flexible configurations for easy connection. It requires an external power input with 12V and 5V to operate. Currently, a piggy back power conversion module can accept a standard four pin PC floppy drive power female connector. Other power input modules could also be developed upon request. The standard configuration includes a PE-X1 connector, mounted perpendicular to the PCB. The adapter's small size allows the adapter to be clipped into a PE-MINI socket. The -S option, adds an extra PE-X1 straddle mount connector at one end. The -F option adds a flexible cable assembly to the adapter, so it can be placed away from the socket. The -CSR option, adds three current sensing resistors to the 12V, 3.3V and 3.3V_aux power rails. The CSRs can be used for current measurements. There is also a high power option -W for I/O cards (PE-X1 cards) that draw more than 1.5A of 3.3V. The standard configuration has the dimension and form factor of a PE-MINI card at 30mm x 51mm (1.18" x 2.0").

PEEM2PEX8 is a PCIe Express Module to PCI Express X8 adapter board. It allows a half size, low profile PCI Express X8 card to be used in a PCIe Express Module based system. It handles proper handshakes between the two buses, and provides necessary power to the PCI Express cards. The PCI Express card is inserted into a right angle connector on the adapter, making it parallel to the adapter. User has the option to add SATA connectors (-SH or -SV) and/or a four pin floppy type power connector (12V and 5V),(-5) to drive the SATA or similar hard disk drives. A special "BENDABLE" option (-BN) allows the PCI Express card to tilt and align its connectors to the opening of the PCIe Express Module's front panel. The adapter can accomodate PCI Express X8 cards up to, 87mm (3.425") H x 167.65 mm (6.6") W. The dimension of the adapter is 108mm (4.25") H X 168.2mm (6.62") W

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