Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0010 Single Board Computer
October 2006 Technical Product Specification
Order Number: 304120 15
Feature Overview—MPCBL0010 SBC
2.0 Feature Overview

2.1 Application

The Advanced Telecommunications Compute Architecture (AdvancedTCA*) standards
define open architecture modular computing components for a carrier-grade,
communications network infrastructure. The goals of the standards are to enable
blade-based modular platforms to be:
•cost effective
• high-density
• high-availability
• scalable
These systems use a fabric I/O network for connecting multiple, independent processor
boards, I/O nodes (e.g., line cards), and I/O devices (e.g., storage subsystem).
The MPCBL0010 Single Board Computer (SBC) is designed according to the
AdvancedTCA Design Guide for High Availability, Switched Network Computing.

2.2 Functional Description

This topic defines the architecture of the MPCBL0010 SBC through descriptions of
functional blocks. Figure 1 shows the functional blocks of the MPCBL0010 SBC. The
MPCBL0010 SBC is a hot-swappable SBC with backplane connections to gigabit
Ethernet networks.
The SBC incorporates an Intelligent Platform Management Controller that monitors
critical functions of the board, responds to commands from the shelf manager, and
reports events.
Power is supplied to the MPCBL0010 SBC through two redundant -48 V power supply
connections. Power for on-board hardware management circuitry is provided through a
standby converter. This converter is fed by the diode OR'd -48 V supply from the
backplane.
The SBC has provision for the addition of two AdvancedMC* devices and also offers one
USB port and one service terminal interface (serial port). An overview of each block is
shown in Figure 1.