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2.5″ HDD or SSD

The G503 is a CompactPCI Serial hard disk drive carrier board for use in a system environment with an x86 processor. It is designed to carry two 2.5″ SATA hard disk or solid state drives.

SATA RAID Controller

The HDD or SSD are controlled by an on-board SATA RAID Controller supporting RAID 0, 1 and JBOD and hot plug. The RAID level can be set using a hex switch on the board.

The G503 can be used to supplement the RAID functionality provided by the CPU board in order to implement data storage systems with high reliability and capacity.

Front Panel Status LEDs

The unit’s front panel features six LEDs signalizing board status (Power, Locate, Activity, Hot-Plug/Error and Eject).

For Mission Critical Tasks and Harsh Environments

The board supports a 2 ms HDD power hold-up time for protecting the stored data in case of a power failure, which makes it applicable also for mission-critical tasks.

In addition to industrial applications, its compliance with the EN 50155 standard makes the board also suitable for railways applications.

Unmanaged Industrial Ethernet Switch

The G304 is an unmanaged 3U Ethernet switch implemented as a CompactPCI Serial board. It occupies one peripheral slot, using a 4 HP front panel with 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports on RJ45 or X-coded M12 connectors, and one direct Ethernet connection to the CPU card using PCI Express on P1. A P6 connector can optionally extend the number of Ethernet channels available on the board to six.

Reliable Communication System Component

The G304 supports full-duplex and half-duplex operation with auto-negotiation, high-speed nonblocking store-and-forward switching. Its built-in test mechanisms make the G304 an even more reliable component in the communication system.

In addition, the switch can act as Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE), supplying other devices on all ports with up to 30 W (class 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) per port for power according to IEEE 802.3 Section 2 – Type 1 and 2 (formerly known as IEEE 802.3at). The maximum power available for one G304 is limited to 61.6 W, according to CPCI-S.0 specification.

Compliant to Railway Standards

The board is specifically designed for rugged mobile communication systems. It is, for example, compliant with the EN 50155 railway standard, supports a -40 °C to +85 °C operating temperature and rail-ready versions are coated.

The MEN G229 is an I/O expansion board for CompactPCI Serial for adding often required functions to a CPU board on a single slot. It can be used, e.g., as a main boot device for a server CPU.

The board is designed and tested for the railway and industrial market. It provides 3 USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 ports and isolated RS232 and RS422/485 interfaces, for either service or continuous operation in a railway or industrial environment.

For data storage or as a boot medium an M.2 slot supporting NVMe is provided on the board. It provides a fast boot time as it is connected via a PCI Express x1 link.

The G229 is a low-power solution for the extended temperature range.