Overview - EKF SC2-PRESTO CompactPCI User Manual

User Guide • SC2-PRESTO • CompactPCI

Overview

The SC2-PRESTO is a rich featured high
performance 4HP/3U CompactPCI
board, equipped with
Core™ mobile processor (Haswell dual- or quad-
core). The SC2-PRESTO front panel is provided
with two Gigabit Ethernet jacks, two USB 3.0
receptacles, and
compliant with the DisplayPort 1.2 standard for
Multi-Stream-Transport (MST). Local expansion
mezzanine cards are available for additional I/O.
While mechanically compliant to CompactPCI
Classic, CompactPCI
defines a completely new card slot, based on
PCI Express®, SATA, Gigabit Ethernet and USB
serial data lines. Up to 6 high-speed backplane
connectors P1 - P6 are provided on a system
slot controller such as the SC2-PRESTO, which
can be considered as a root hub with respect to
most signal lines. A passive backplane is used
for distribution of a defined subset of I/O
channels from the system slot to each of up to
eight peripheral slots in a CompactPCI
system.
The SC2-PRESTO is equipped with a set of local
expansion interface connectors, which can be
optionally used to attach a mezzanine side
board. A variety of expansion cards is available,
e.g. providing legacy I/O and additional PCI
Express® based I/O controllers such as SATA,
USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet, or a third video
output. Most mezzanine side cards can
accommodate in addition a 2.5-inch drive.
© EKF
®
Serial CPU
th
a 4 generation Intel®
two mDP connectors,
®
Serial (PICMG® CPCIS.0)
®
®
Serial CPU Board • Intel® Core
The SC2-PRESTO is equipped with up to 16GB
Low Power RAM with ECC support. 8GB
memory-down
applications, and another 8GB are available via
the DDR3L ECC SO-DIMM socket. The on-board
SATA 6G RAID controller allows for powerful
mass storage solutions via the CompactPCI®
Serial backplane. Low profile SSD mezzanine
modules are available as on-board storage
solution, in addition.
®
Most CompactPCI
require only the backplane connector P1, which
comprises PCIe, SATA and USB signals, resulting
in a concise and inexpensive peripheral board
design. More powerful peripheral cards profit
from so called Fat Pipe slots (PCIe x 8).
The SC2-PRESTO is a native CompactPCI
CPU card, suitable for usage in a pure CPCI
Serial environment. Due to its generous
backplane capabilities (22 x PCI Express® lanes,
Serial 6 x USB2, 2 x USB3, 7 x SATA/RAID, 2 x GbE),
very powerful industrial systems can be built.
Typically, the SC2-PRESTO and the related side
card would come as a readily assembled 8HP
unit. As an alternate, low profile Flash based
mezzanine storage modules are available that
fit on the SC2-PRESTO while maintaining the
4HP profile. The C47-MSATA module e.g. is
equipped with two very fast MSATA Solid State
Drives (SSD), which is suitable for installation of
any popular operating system.
-7-
TM
4xxx Processor
are provided for
®
Serial peripheral slot cards
rugged
®
Serial
ekf.com