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Cronologic Ndigo Crate User Manual

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Revision 1.0 as of 2012-05-10
cronologic GmbH & Co. KG
Ndigo Crate
User Guide
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  • Page 1 Revision 1.0 as of 2012-05-10 cronologic GmbH & Co. KG Ndigo Crate User Guide cronologic...
  • Page 3 2012 cronologic GmbH & Co. KG. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of cronologic GmbH & Co. KG. For requests or feedback you can contact cronologic GmbH & Co. KG: Address: cronologic GmbH &...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    ......Connecting the Ndigo Crate to the PCIe x16 host card ....

  • Page 6: Overview

    The Ndigo Crate is a PCI Express (PCIe) expansion enclosure containing 8 x16 PCIe2 slots. The Ndigo Crate connects to a host computer using an adapter (PCIe expansion card) which is plugged into a PCIe2 or PCIe x16 slot via a x16 cable. Depending on the variant of the Ndigo...

  • Page 8: Component IdentiCation

    2 Component Identication 2.1 Front Panel Figure displays the front side of the Ndigo Crate ready to be installed into a rack mount. Figure shows an exemplary conguration of the Ndigo Crate and may not resemble your ordered product. Figure 2.1: Ndigo Crate front panel view.

  • Page 9: Internal View

    Figure 2.2: PCIe host card with the PCIe x16 host cable connected to the Ndigo Crate. 2.3 Internal View Figure provides insight to the opened enclosure of the Ndigo Crate. In this conguration example two PCIe cards are installed onto the base board and may not resemble your ordered product.

  • Page 10: Electrical SpeciCations

    2.4 Electrical Specications 2.4.1 Power Supply The table below (Table 2.1) lists AC input and DC output voltage, frequency range, current and peak loads of the power supply shipped with the Ndigo Crate. cronologic GmbH & Co. KG Ndigo5G User Guide...

  • Page 11: Electrical Load Of Each Power Supply Rail

    Table 2.1: Power supply specications of the be quit! Pure Power L8-430W. 2.4.2 Electrical Load of each Power Supply Rail The nominal and maximum electrical load per power supply rail of the Ndigo Crate are show in Table below. The given values apply to the exemplary conguration of the Ndigo Crate where no additional PCIe cards, except the PCIe expansion card, are installed.

  • Page 12: Electrical Load Per Slot

    +12V1, max. current 15.2A +12V2, max. current 16.2A Table 2.2: Electrical load of each power supply rail of the Ndigo Crate with installed PCIe ex- pansion card but without any installed PCIe cards. 2.4.3 Electrical Load per Slot The Ndigo Crate PCIe expansion enclosure provides eight slots.

  • Page 14: Installation

    PCIe x16 slot. Secure the PCIe x16 host card with a mounting screw. 3.2 Installation of 3rd party PCIe cards The Ndigo Crate is suitable for 3rd party PCIe cards. All slots on the base board are mechanically PCIe x16 slots. Electrically four or eight lanes are connected. See table 3.1.
  • Page 15 PCIe3, x4, 25W Table 3.1: Slot congurations PCIe x16 host card). To check the functional status the enclosure of the Ndigo Crate has to be open as the control LEDs are installed on the base board beside each slot. The Ndigo Crate is capable of any link width up to the number of lanes electrically connected at the slot (x4 or x8, see Table 7).

  • Page 16: Connecting The Ndigo Crate To The Pcie X16 Host Card

    After the installation of the PCIe host card in your target machine/computer, the PCIe expansion card of the Ndigo Crate must be connected with the PCIe host card via the PCIe x16 host cable. For this purpose connect the PCIe x16 host cable to the PCIe x16 host cable connector of the PCIe expansion card which is installed in the Ndigo Crate (please refer to gure 2.1).

  • Page 17: Maintenance

    :0.5s LED on; : 1.5s LED on Table 3.3: Negotiated lane width in the PCIe x16 slots of the Ndigo Crate 3.5 Maintenance The cooling fans have to be checked and cleaned from time to time, especially if the noise level increases.

  • Page 18: Regularity Compliance And Recycling

    For full compliance it is oblig- ity(EMC) atory that both the enclosure and the host PC are not damaged, completely closed and all slot brackets installed. The Ndigo Crate does not pose any hazard as dened by Product Safety DIN EN-61010-1. Restriction...

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