User Guide • SC5-FESTIVAL • CompactPCI
®
Serial CPU Board
Overview
The SC5-FESTIVAL is a rich featured high
performance 4HP/3U CompactPCI
®
Serial CPU
board, equipped with an Intel
®
Xeon
®
E3 familiy
mobile workstation processor (Kaby Lake Halo
platform) for demanding applications. For
scalability, the SC5-FESTIVAL is also available
with a 7
th
Generation Intel
®
Core™ Kaby Lake
processor.
The SC5-FESTIVAL front panel is provided with
two Gigabit Ethernet jacks, two USB 3.0
receptacles, and two DisplayPort connectors. In
addition, up to two USB Type-C front panel
receptacles are available as an option, one of
them usable alternatively as (third) DisplayPort.
On-board mass-storage solutions are based on
low profile mezzanine expansion cards, which
accommodate up to two M.2 style SSD
modules. One of the M.2 sockets is suitable for
a fast NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x 4) module, and the
other for a low cost SATA type M.2.
The SC5-FESTIVAL is equipped with up to 32GB
DDR4 RAM with ECC support. Up to 16GB
memory-down are provided for rugged
applications, and another 16GB are available via
the DDR4 ECC SO-DIMM socket.
The powerful Xeon
®
E3-1500 v6 series
processor is accompanied by the CM238 mobile
PCH, for a maximum of high speed I/O
resources (e.g. PCI Express
®
, SATA, USB). Thus,
22 PCIe lanes are available for backplane use,
and up to 8 lanes for local mezzanine
expansion.
The SC5-FESTIVAL is provided with an on-board
SATA hardware RAID controller, enabling high-
capacity mass storage solutions across the
CompactPCI
®
Serial backplane.
As an option, up to eight Gigabit Ethernet Ports
are available via the backplane connector P6
(S80-P6 low profile mezzanine expansion card).
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