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Node
Naming convention
Hardware differences
Number of PICMG 1.3 SHB connectors
Number of x16 PCIe 2.0 connectors
Number of x8 PCIe 2.0 connectors
Number of SATA 2.0 (3 Gbps) connectors
*. Depending on the number of SHB's connected, you can have a maximum of six x16 PCIe boards, and either four x8 PCIe boards or an additional two x16 PCIe
boards.
†. For the 13-connector version, you can have either seven x16 PCIe boards and one x8 PCIe board or thirteen x8 PCIe boards.
‡. For the 8-connector version, you can have either four x16 PCIe boards or eight x8 PCIe boards.
The Matrox Supersight units come pre-installed with a backplane, one SHB-5520
with memory modules, Microsoft Windows 7 for Embedded Systems 64-bit, a
mass storage device, a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, a power supply, and three
cooling fans; these are encased within a metal chassis.
Documentation conventions
The following conventions are used in this manual.
A node consists of one SHB-5520, along with any additional boards that are
connected to the SHB through the backplane, such as GPU boards, boards with
FPGAs, frame grabber boards, and processing boards.
This manual refers to both Matrox Supersight e2 and Matrox Supersight Solo
units as Matrox Supersight. When necessary, their full names are used.
Backplane
The Matrox Supersight backplane is a switched fabric backplane. A switched fabric
backplane allows one SHB to communicate without additional connectors with
the PCIe 2.0 boards connected to the same backplane and belonging to the same
node. This communication occurs below the operating system level, and can be
accessed by programs like a Distributed MIL application. Note that, since this
communication occurs below the operating system level, no Ethernet network
connection is required.
The Matrox Supersight backplane differs between versions:
Matrox Supersight e2
4
*
8
*
4
5 -14 (2 on the backplane and 3 per SHB)
1. Note that in previous versions of this manual, a node was referred to as a
cluster.
Backplane
1
Matrox Supersight Solo
1
†
‡
7
or 4
†
‡
13
or 8
5 (2 on the backplane and 3 on the SHB)
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