Intel MPCBL0001 manual Features Overview, Application, Functional Description

Features Overview
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2.1Application

The Advanced Telecommunications Compute Architecture (AdvancedTCA) standards define open architecture modular computing components for 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 MPCBL0001 SBC is designed per the AdvancedTCA Design Guide for High Availability, Switched Network Computing. Bulk storage for the system is connected through optional dual Fibre Channel interfaces. The MPCBL0001FXX SBC includes a Fibre Channel controller. The MPCBL0001NXX SBC does not have the Fibre Channel controller.

2.2Functional Description

This topic defines the architecture of the MPCBL0001 SBC through descriptions of functional blocks. Figure 1, “Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0001 SBC Block Diagram” on page 15 shows the functional blocks of the MPCBL0001 SBC. The MPCBL0001 SBC is a dual processor, hot- swappable SBC with backplane connections to dual Gigabit Ethernet star networks and dual Fibre Channel star arbitrated loops.

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 MPCBL0001 SBC through two redundant -48 V power supply connections. Power for on-board hardware management circuitry is provided through a standby converter on the power mezzanine. This converter, along with all the other converters on the power mezzanine are fed by the diode OR'd -48 V supply from the backplane.

The SBC has provision for the addition of a PMC device and supports 32-bit and 64-bit transfers at 33 MHz and 66 MHz. The SBC also offers one USB and one service terminal interface. An overview of each block follows.

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