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Chaining node components and bom

pekkanikander edited this page Jan 3, 2013 · 4 revisions

Overview

A chaining node is a pass-through PoE switch that has an ARM micro controller to face similar I/O than the PET node. The plan is to have two models, one with one output port, the other with four output ports. The essential new components compared to the PET node are the Ethernet switch and the PoE DCE controller.

                        Ethernet                         Ethernet
Input PoE port ====+--------------------- Ethernet switch----------------+==== Output PoE port
                   |                          |     |                    |
                   |                          |     | RMII,SMI           |
                   |                          |     |                    |
                   | -48V                3.3V +----MCU                   | -48V
                   |                          |     | i2c                |
                   |                          |     |                    |
                   +---- PoE PD controller  DC/DC--PoE DCE controller    |
                   |           |              |           |              |
                   |           V              |           V              |
                   +--------- FET-------------+----------FET-------------+

Ethernet switch chips

2+1 port switches

4+1 port switches

PoE DCE Controller