Kontron recently débuted a 6U CompactPCI Serial Mesh 10 Gigabit Ethernet processor board together with a compliant chassis. The system supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet and PCIe over backplane in addition to the common interfaces such as PICMG 2.16, SATA and HDMI.
The CompactPCI processor board CP6004X-SA is based on the latest generation quad-core Intel Core processor and offers high computing power and performance per Watt, which really comes into its own in the CP-RAPID3 chassis with full-mesh fabric configuration.
Some applications for the new modular CompactPCI Serial Mesh (based on PICMG 2.20) systems are in high-availability telecommunications and data communications systems for carriers and also with government and security companies. Applications include secure wireless systems, radar and sonar applications, and complex computational algorithms such as imaging processing.
Multiprocessor board configurations have already been fully tested in the chassis so that pre-integrated modular CompactPCI system configurations with 10 Gigabit Ethernet and PCIe over backplane can be supplied to OEMs immediately. Kontron uses the ZD plus connector for enhanced signal integrity which is compatible with PICMG 2.20 but has better shielding than the standard connector.
The 6U CP6004X-SA CompactPCI processor board is equipped with the third generation Intel Core i7 processor 3615QE clocking at 2,3 GHz. Bandwidth-intensive applications benefit from the large 6 MB cache and the extensive memory of up to 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 ECC SO-DIMM.
With its comprehensive range of interfaces, the board can be integrated into a wide variety of implementation scenarios. Besides the two 10 GbE and PCIe connections to the backplane, the board offers six SATA ports with RAID support for improved data security plus six USB 2.0 ports, two RS232, three graphic interfaces (1 x VGA 2 x DVI/HDMI) and five server class-performance Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
An onboard SATA 6 GBps port can be used for a 2,5” SSD or HDD or for a 32 GB capacity Flash SATA module. In addition an XMC socket provides options for the customer’s own extensions, such as the dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet XMC cards from Kontron. The processor board supports Linux, Wind River Linux (from 4.3), VxWorks (from 6.9), Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008-R2.
Based on the PICMG 2.20 specification, the CP-RAPID3 chassis features four 6U slots and can be configured with up to three PICMG 2.20 processor boards. This leaves one or two slots for GPGPU, FPGA or SSD-HDD carrier boards. The two power supply units are redundant and designed for high-availability requirements.
The chassis supports 10GbE, PCI Express, SATA 6 GBps over backplane with future-proof capability of up to 40GbE. It enables system designs with full-mesh Ethernet communication.
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