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The SC5-FESTIVAL is a rich featured high performance 4HP/3U CompactPCI® Serial CPU board, equipped with an Intel® Xeon® E3 familiy mobile workstation processor for demanding applications. For scalability, the SC5-FESTIVAL is also available with a 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processor.

The SC5-FESTIVAL front panel is provided with two Gigabit Ethernet jacks, two USB 3.0 receptacles, and two DisplayPort connectors. In addition, up to two USB Type-C front panel receptacles are available as an option, one of them usable alternatively as (third) DisplayPort.

On-board mass-storage solutions are based on a low profile mezzanine expansion card, which accommodates two M.2 style SSD modules. One of the M.2 sockets is suitable for a fast NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x 4) module, and the other for a low cost SATA type M.2 SSD.

The SC5-FESTIVAL is equipped with up to 32GB DDR4 RAM with ECC support. Up to 16GB memory-down are provided for rugged applications, and another 16GB are available via the DDR4 ECC SO-DIMM socket.

The powerful Xeon® E3-1500 v6 series processor is accompanied by the CM238 mobile PCH, for a maximum of high speed I/O resources (e.g. PCI Express®, SATA, USB). Thus, 22 PCIe lanes are available for backplane use, and up to 8 lanes for local mezzanine expansion.

The SC5-FESTIVAL is provided with an on-board SATA hardware RAID controller, enabling high-capacity mass storage solutions across the CompactPCI® Serial backplane.

As an option, up to eight Gigabit Ethernet Ports are available via the backplane connector P6 (low profile mezzanine expansion card).

EKF is presenting its latest CompactPCI serial SBC SC9-TOCCATA in time for Embedded World 2022. Based on the 11th generation Intel® Xeon processor, it not only comes with an extremely high clock speed of up to 4.7 GHz. Thanks to its three USB Type-C sockets (Alternate Mode), it can flexibly control monitors or USB devices, which makes it particularly suitable for graphics-intensive applications in industry and transportation. In addition, it offers three network sockets according to the fast 2.5 Gbase-T standard for setting up complex and/or redundant network structures.

Strong Basics with Flexible Expansion

The SC9 delivers everything that is currently possible in terms of speed and performance on CompactPCI Serial.

With the powerful Intel® XEON CPU of the Tiger Lake H45 platform, it delivers clock rates of up to 4.7 GHz in the highest performance level (base rate 2.6 GHz) with comparatively low power dissipation as well as integrated AI and deep learning functions. Intel also guarantees operation with this processor line not only for high temperatures, but also for the first time at up to -40°. Testing and screening can thus be simplified.

The three modern USB Type-C sockets on the front enable alternating operation: they can therefore either control USB devices or monitors. A fourth monitor can additionally be controlled via the S40 or S48 sidecards. Perfect for demanding visualization applications.

Also via flexible mezzanine modules, the SC9 can be expanded as needed with fast M.2 storage modules (NVMe, up to PCIe Gen4) or wireless functions using PCI Express® Mini Cards. The S42 or S48 sidecards for instance are suitable here. By default, the CPCI Serial SBC is equipped with 64GB DDR4 ECC RAM.

With a total of three RJ45 connectors, EKF meets a recurring customer request: “Many projects require three Ethernet ports, for example when a redundant network already occupies two connectors. With the third network connector, we have now been able to meet this need for more complex network architectures,” explains Bernd Kleeberg, CEO and Head of Sales at EKF.

The backplane provides a total of 25 PCIe® lanes for backplane use and a further 8 lanes for local mezzanine expansion at up to PCIe® Gen4 speed.

Optionally, up to eight additional Gigabit Ethernet ports (either switch or NICs) are available via the P6 backplane connector using a mezzanine module.

For use in rail applications, the SC9 is delivered in conformity with EN 50155 with protective coating.

3U CompactPCI Serial Backplane with 5 CPCI-S.0 slots, system slot right, with rear IO: 1x CPCI-S.0 CPU slot, 4x CPCI-S.0 peripheral slots, with connectors for RTMs (RearTransition Modules) in slots 2 to 5, system slot (Slot 5) has one connector for RTM -> 5RJ6 – no Ethernet on the backplane

Product Features
-CompactPCI Serial (PICMG CPCI-S.0) compliant backplane
– High-speed connectors supporting data transfer rates up to 12 Gbps in all 5 slots
– Single star topology for serial interfaces such as PCI Express, SATA, USB2 and USB3 are provided by the CPCI-S.0 system slot
– Europacard form factor in 3U height
– No Ethernet on backplane
– Designed to support Rear Transition Modules
– With RTM connectors