Ipmi Interfaces; Ipmb-0; Kcs - Advantech MIC-3399 User Manual

3.3

IPMI Interfaces

MIC-3399 provides three main IPMI messaging interfaces to connect to the BMC.
There is the IPMB-0 main messaging interface between CPCI boards, the LAN-side
band interface (NCSI), and the on-board payload interface to x86 (KCS).
3.3.1

IPMB-0

IPMB-0 is the I2C-based PICMG 2.9 R1.0-defined main messaging interface
between CPCI boards. It consists of one I2C bus clocked at a frequency of 100 kHz,
using IPMI-compliant messaging.
3.3.2

KCS

The BMC KCS interface is implemented according to the IPMI 2.0 specification. Key-
board controller style (KCS) interfacing describes a legacy system interface based
around a bidirectional set of status/command and data register.
This type of interface has been adopted as the IPMI system interface and provides
the following benefits:
Higher bandwidth than that of I2C or RS-232-based interfaces
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Robustness
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Auto-discovery options
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Figure 3.1 Management Block Diagram
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