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1 Box contents

Make sure you receive all items of your shipment:

One Penguin Edge™ ATCA-7480 blade

One printed copy of Quick Start Guide (this document)

One printed copy of Safety Notes Summary

• Any optional items ordered

Purchase an power input cable for each PSU to operate the system 
(see step 6).

When installing or servicing the system or accessories, 
strictly observe the safety precautions in the 

Safety Notes 

Summary

. Ignoring these instructions can void the system 

warranty and cause personal injury or property damage.

2 ESD

Electrostatic discharge and incorrect installation or 
removal of the card can damage circuit or shorten its life.

Use a properly grounded ESD wrist strap or make work 
in an ESD-safe environment. 

Connect to the ESD connector at the front or the rear of 
the system.

3 Site preparation

1. Make sure that all environmental and power requirements 

defined in the 

Penguin Edge™ ATCA-7480 Installation and 

Use

 manual are met.

2. Operating temperatures refer to the temperature of the air 

circulating around the blade and not to the actual component 
temperature

For more information about connecting cables and power cords, 
refer to the 

Penguin Edge ATCA-7480 Installation and Use 

manual.

4 Install the DIMM

Notes:

Some blade variants come with the DIMM already 

installed. 

For thermal safety concerns, no 4-rank DIMMs and 

stacked DIMMS are allowed.

1. Remove the blade from the system.
2. Open the locks of the memory module socket.
3. Press the memory module carefully into the socket. As soon as 

the memory module is fully inserted, the locks automatically get 
closed.

4. If necessary, repeat steps 2–3 to install additional memory 

modules.

5 Install the MO-297 SSD 

module

1. Remove the blade from the system.
2. Plug the MO-297 SSD module into the ATCA-7480-MMOD 

carrier.

3. Reinstall the blade into the system. For more information on 

installing, refer 

ATCA-7480 MMOD-SSD-KIT Quick Start Guide

.

6 Install the blade

The following procedure assumes that the system is powered. If it is 
unpowered, you can disregard the blue LED and skip its respective 
step.

1. Slide the latch into the release position and pull out the handle 

outward to unlatch the handle from the face plate. Do not 
rotate the handle fully outward.

2. Insert the blade into the shelf by placing the top and bottom 

edges of the blade in the card guides of the shelf. Make sure that 
the guiding module of shelf and blade are aligned properly.

3. Apply equal and steady pressure to the blade to carefully slide 

the blade into the shelf until you feel resistance. Continue to 
push the blade gently until the blade connectors engage.

4. Fully insert the blade and turn the handle towards the face plate. 

The latches automatically slide inwards and lock the handles. If 
the shelf is powered, as soon as the blade is connected to the 
backplane power pins, the blue LED is illuminated.

When the blade is completely installed, the blue LED starts to 
blink. This indicates that the blade has signified its presence to 
the shelf management controller.

5. Wait until the blue LED is switched off and then fasten the 

faceplate screws, which secure the blade to the shelf. When the 
blue LED is switched off and the green LED (IS) is switched on, 
this indicates that the payload has been powered up and the 
blade is active.

6. Connect cables to the face plate, if applicable.

Note: 

If an RTM is connected to the front blade, make sure that the 
handles of both the RTM and the front blade are closed in order to 
power up the blade’s payload.

Penguin Edge™ 

ATCA-7480

Quick Start Guide

P/N: 6806800T34C   JUNE 2022

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