Advantech MIC-3396, User Manual

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MIC-3396 User Manual 2
1.1 Introduction
The MIC-3396 is a high performance, power efficient CompactPCI single-board com-
puter based on the Intel
®
Core™ i3/i5/i7 microprocessors. The MIC-3396 delivers
breakthrough energy-efficient performance for CompactPCI platforms. The Intel
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Core™i3/i5/i7 provides enhanced energy-efficient performance to help equipment
manufacturers optimally balance processing capabilities within power and space con-
straints. The advanced smart cache of Core™ i3/i5/i7 dynamically allocates the
shared L2 cache across cores and optimizes use of memory subsystem bandwidth to
accelerate out-of-order execution. A prediction mechanism reduces the time in-flight
instructions have to wait for data. The new pre-fetch algorithms move data from sys-
tem memory into fast L2 cache in advance of execution.
The Core™ i3/i5/i7 combines the benefits of two high- performance execution cores
with intelligent power management features to deliver significantly greater perfor-
mance per watt over previous Intel processors. The two execution cores share a
high-performance, power-optimized 5GT/s DMI bus to access the same system
memory. To save power, address and data buffers are turned off when there is no
activity.
The MIC-3396 maximizes I/O throughput with PCI Express (PCIe) technology. An on-
board 8 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3L memory is provided with a combination of SO-
DIMM up to max. 8 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3L as option. It supports a fast Serial-ATA
interface to an on-board hard drive.
1.2 Specifications
1.2.1 CompactPCI Bus Interface
The MIC-3396 is compliant with PICMG 2.0 Rev. 3.0. It supports a 64-bit / 66 MHz or
33MHz PCI bus for up to 7 CompactPCI slots at 3.3 V or 5 V VIO. The MIC-3396 is
hot-swap compliant (PICMG 2.1) and conforms to the CompactPCI Packet Switching
Backplane specification (PICMG 2.16) as well as the CompactPCI System Manage-
ment Specification (PICMG 2.9).
The board can be configured as a system master or a drone board. In drone mode it
only draws power from the CompactPCI backplane and is not active on the Compact-
PCI bus. However, PICMG 2.16 is still fully supported in this mode.
1.2.2 CPU
The MIC-3396 supports Intel
®
4th generation Core™ i3/i5/i7 Haswell processor fam-
ily with clock frequencies up to 2.7 GHz and a Direct Media Interface (DMI) up to
5GT/s.
Intel
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4th generation Core™ i3/i5/i7 processors are validated with Intel
®
mobile
QM87 chipset. This chipset provides greater flexibility by deploying the latest virtual-
ization, multi-threading and I/OAT acceleration techniques, as well as remote asset
management capabilities, and improved storage speed and reliability.
Supported processors are listed in the table below. The Intel
®
4th generation Core™
i3/i5/i7 processors support up to two cores / four threads at 2.7 GHz / 2.4 GHz and 3
MB / 6MB cache.