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The ECX-PCIE is a mezzanine side card for EKF CompactPCI® Serial CPU boards, equipped with a PCIe® Gen3 packet switch, on-board NVMe and SATA mass storage, and high speed front I/O.

The PCI Express® switch supports a CompactPCI® Express (aka PXI Express™) backplane with four links organized as Gen3 x4, thereby replacing a CompactPCI® Express CPU card. This enables a hybrid system which is comprised of two backplanes, CompactPCI® Serial boards to the left, and CompactPCI® Express peripheral cards to the right. The CompactPCI® Serial CPU controls also the CompactPCI® Express backplane via the ECX-PCIE mezzanine card.

The ECX-PCIE is suitable for EKF CPU carrier cards such as the SC5-FESTIVAL, with support for 8 x PCIe® lanes on a mezzanine board.

The CPU carrier board and ECX-PCIE side card assembly requires 10HP common front panel width, and must be inserted into the particular system slots of two adjacent backplanes. While the CPU card fits into a CompactPCI® Serial backplane which has its system slot right aligned, the ECX-PCIE meets the left aligned system slot of the neighbouring CompactPCI® Express backplane.

In addition, the ECX-PCIE is provided with an M.2 socket for an NVMe (PCIe®) or SATA SSD module. Another socket is suitable for either a PCIe® Mini Card, or mSATA SSD. Furthermore, the ECX-PCIE is equipped with three GbE and three USB 3.0 ports for front I/O, which expands the native CPU carrier card I/O. As an option, the front panel can be provided with SMA antenna connectors for WWAN or WLAN operation.

The SC6-TANGO is a low power CompactPCI® Serial CPU board, based on an Intel® Atom™ 39xx-series System-on-Chip processor (Apollo Lake APL-I). The SC6-TANGO front panel is provided with two Gigabit Ethernet jacks (option M12-X), two USB 3.0 receptacles, and two DisplayPort connectors. The board is equipped with 8GB directly soldered DDR3L ECC RAM, and a CFast™ card socket as on-board SATA SSD mass storage solution.

Optionally available is an on-board 64GByte e•MMC flash memory chip. Further more, low profile SATA SSD mezzanine modules are available as additional on-board mass storage solution (4HP assembly), and also a multi-function side card (8HP). The SC6-TANGO backplane connectors comply with the CompactPCI® Serial system board specification, suitable for small system expansion via 4 x PCIe® and 2 x GbE.

The SC8-FLUTE is a low power CompactPCI® Serial CPU board, based on an Intel® Atom™ x6000RE (Elkhart Lake Industrial) System-on-Chip processor. The front panel is provided with three 2.5Gbps RJ45 Ethernet jacks, and three Type-C USB3/DisplayPort connectors. The board is equipped with 16GB directly soldered DDR4 IBECC RAM, and in addition a DDR4 SODIMM socket for another 16GB.

High speed PCIe® x4 SSD mass storage is available via low profile mezzanine modules (4HP assembly), or multi-function side cards (8HP). The SC8-FLUTE backplane connectors comply with the CompactPCI® Serial system board specification, suitable for reasonable system expansion via 5 x PCIe®, 4 x SATA (two ports configurable as hardware RAID 0/1), and USB3.