K2GICE: PCI-e example cable mod

Tommi Mehtonen

Part Number: K2GICE

I have found guide for pcie cable mod for male to male cable but for k2gice I need an female to female cable. I have two riser cables from which to modify these. Have i understo correctly that from this pintout i connect pins 1-1, 2-2 etc but do not connect any power cable and connect transmit lane to reciever lane.

over 4 years ago

0 Tommi Mehtonen over 4 years ago

Intellectual 640 points

+ do not connect clock signals

0 Victor Kazmirenko over 4 years ago

Guru 13042 points

Hello!

We have a setup where we need to connect K2Gwith x1 female socket to FPGA dev.board with x4 finger. So we got male to female x4 cable and cut part of male finger connector, so it fits in 1x socket. It works just fine.

0 Yordan Kovachev over 4 years ago in reply to Victor Kazmirenko

TI__Guru**** 161600 points

In addition, TI supports the use case provided in this link:

it points to a link for modifying PCIe cable for connecting two K2G EVMs (not IDKs). The link is:

Best Regards,
Yordan

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