PC5-LARGO • CompactPCI
®
PlusIO • 5
th
Generation Intel
®
Core™-5xxx Processor
CompactPCI
®
PlusIO (PICMG 2.30) is a standard
for rear I/O across J2, specified by the PICMG
®
.
High speed signal lines (PCI Express
®
, SATA,
Gigabit Ethernet and USB) are passed from the
PC5-LARGO through the special UHM
connector to the backplane, for usage either on
a PlusIO rear I/O transition module, or
CompactPCI
®
Serial card slots.
CompactPCI
®
Serial (PICMG CPCIS.0) defines a
completely new card slot, based on PCI
Express
®
, SATA, Gigabit Ethernet and USB serial
data lines. On a hybrid backplane, both card
styles can reside, CompactPCI
®
and
CompactPCI
®
Serial, with the PC5-LARGO
in the
middle as system slot controller for both
backplane segments.
The PC5-LARGO is equipped with a set of local
expansion interface connectors, which can be
optionally used to attach a mezzanine side
board. A variety of expansion cards is available,
e.g. providing legacy I/O and additional PCI
Express
®
based I/O controllers such as SATA,
USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet, or a third video
output. Most mezzanine side cards can
accommodate in addition a 2.5-inch drive.
Typically, the PC5-LARGO and the related side
card would come as a readily assembled 8HP
unit. As an alternate, low profile Flash based
mezzanine storage modules are available that
fit on the PC5-LARGO while maintaining the
4HP profile. The C48-M2 module e.g. is
equipped with two fast M.2 SATA Solid State
Drives (SSD), which is suitable for installation of
any popular operating system.
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