Motorola IH5, MCPN750A manual Introduction, Product Description, Block Diagram

Hardware Preparation and Installation

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Introduction

This chapter provides startup and safety instructions related to this product, hardware preparation instructions - including default jumper settings, system considerations, and installation instructions for the baseboard, as well as the PMCs and transition modules associated with this board.

A fully implemented MCPN750A consists of the baseboard plus:

❏One or two optional PCI mezzanine cards (PMC) for additional versatility

❏One of two different types of optional transition modules: the TMCPN710 or the TM-PIMC-0001 for added I/O flexibility

Product Description

The MCPN750A is a hot swappable CompactPCI, non-system slot, single board computer based on the PowerPlus architecture. It consists of the MPC750 processor with L2 cache, the Raven PCI Bridge and Interrupt Controller, the ECC Memory Controller Falcon chipset, 5MB of linear Flash memory, 16MB to 256MB of ECC protected DRAM, interface to a CompactPCI bus, and several I/O peripherals.

Block Diagram

The block diagram in Figure 1-1 illustrates the architecture of the

MCPN750A baseboard.

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