Intel MPCBL0010 manual Feature Overview, Application, Functional Description

Feature Overview—MPCBL0010 SBC

2.0Feature Overview

2.1Application

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.

2.2Functional 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.

	Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0010 Single Board Computer
October 2006	Technical Product Specification
Order Number: 304120	15