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12 Chapter 1: Before you begin
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:
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 either x8 PCIe boards.
❖ Note that system restart of Matrox Supersight SHB-Q170 is not supported with
the e2 backplane. Instead, all SHBs will have to be shutdown and restarted
individually. Disregarding this and doing a system restart anyways can result in
add-on boards no longer being detected upon restart.
Matrox Supersight e2
4
*
8
*
4
0 (an additional 3 per SHB)
Matrox Supersight Solo
1
†
†
7
or 4
†
‡
13
or 8
2 (an additional 3 on the SHB)
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