Dual carrier allows easy mixing of I/O and CPUs

The Blade Runner 500 is a dual PMC PICMG 2.16 compliant carrier board for 6U CompactPCI systems.

The Blade Runner 500 is a dual PMC PICMG 2.16 compliant carrier board for 6U CompactPCI systems.

Blade Runner 500 is designed for easy mixing of CPUs and I/O interfaces and is ideal for a wide variety of high-density applications such as edge access devices, routers, soft switch applications and storage area networks based on standard CPCI or PICMG 2.16 specifications.

A carrier card is a simple, off-the-shelf option for designers who want to maximise their performance alternatives, minimise expense, and ensure their ability to change interfaces or manage incremental upgrades into the future.

Today's systems designers are looking for embedded products like carrier cards, which allow them to quickly develop PMC-based solutions using different levels of processing power and connecting with different network interfaces.

By adding a modular processor and/or I/O interface, Blade Runner 500 can scale and evolve with a wide variety of applications.

"Our customers are looking for modular, scalable, and interoperable products so they can build their systems quickly and easily, while focusing on bringing innovative applications to market", said Dan Moore, President of SBS Technologies' Communications and Enterprise Group.

"Blade Runner 500 is a simple solution for customers making legacy upgrades or building dynamic new systems with a variety of I/O and power requirements".

Fully hot-swappable, Blade Runner 500 makes it easy to change out or upgrade CPUs or I/O cards without replacing the carrier card, which can accommodate either two I/O cards, one I/O and one CPU card, or two CPU cards.

Using the SBS Palomar 1000 DFX with two processors per PrPMC, Blade Runner 500 can manage up to four CPUs.

SBS also offers a comprehensive portfolio of I/O interfaces, including ATM, OC-3, T1/E1, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel.

Blade Runner 500's two 64bit PMC sites are capable of running at up to 66MHz and both offer a flexible PICMG 2.16 Ethernet connection via the J3 connector.

The board also features the Intel 21555 nontransparent bridge and advanced IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface).

The IMPI is used to monitor a system's health and provide information necessary for system management and recovery.

The 21555 PCI-to-PCI bridge supports PCI power management, vital product data (VPD) and CompactPCI distributed hot swap.

It also supports asynchronous operation between the primary and secondary interfaces, and it includes an I20 message unit for communications between Blade Runner 500 and the system controller.

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