Trenton’s BPX3/14 PCI express backplane provides electrical connections for a single or dual-processor single board computer, one IOB33 PCIe link expansion module, two PCI Express and fourteen PCI-X/PCI plug-in I/O cards. The backplane design places the SBC slot near the center of the backplane to enable more efficient air flow in a rack mount enclosure.
Some of the single board computer’s PCI Express links drive the PCIe card slots directly while other links enable the dual-channel PCIe-to-PCI-X bridge chips to interface the PCI-X/PCI slots into the system. The sixteen option card slots support standard PCIe, PCI-X and PCI plug-in I/O cards typically used in communication platforms.
- 20-slot form factor supports one PICMG 1.3 server-class system host board
- 14 PCI-X and 2 PCI express option card slots
- Optimized for use with trenton high-performance PICMG 1.3 system host boards
- Two 10/100/1000Base-T backplane Ethernet ports
- Four USB 2.0 backplane I/O connections
- Wide range of SBC options
- 2-x4 PCIe I/O card slots
- 2-64-bit/133MHz PCI-X slots
- 14-64-bit/100MHz PCI-X slots
