User Manual Manual

AT8402 Introduction
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1. Introduction
The Board described in this manual is designed for the Advanced Telecom Computing Archi-
tecture (AdvancedTCA® or ATCA) defined by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers
Group (PICMG). The main advantages of AdvancedTCA include high throughput, multi-proto-
col support, high-power capability, hot swappability, high scalability and integrated system
management. For further information regarding the AdvancedTCA standards and their use,
please consult the complete AdvancedTCA specification or visit the PICMG web site.
1.1 Product Overview
The Kontron AT8402 is a PICMG 3.0 and 3.1 Option 3 compliant Carrier Board for Advanced
TCA shelves, designed according to the RoHS directive. It is a PICMG AMC.0 compliant Con-
ventional Carrier providing four mid-size AMC slots. A Gigabit Ethernet Switch provides con-
nection to the base and extension fabric interface.
1.1.1 AT8402 Features
The board is composed of the following building blocks:
• Gigabit Ethernet Switch
• PCI Express Infrastructure
• SAS/SATA Infrastructure
• Ethernet Switch Controller and Memory
• Synchronous Clock Distribution
• Up to four mid-size AMC bays
• RTM Connector (Zone 3)
•IPMI
• Power Supply Mezzanine incl. Hold Over Circuit
1.1.1.1 Ethernet Switch
• Broadcom BCM56305: 24 Port Gigabit Layer-2/3 Switch
• PCI 32b/66MHz Management IF
• Line rate switching for all packet sizes and conditions
• Supports 2 Base Channels 10/100/1000Base-T
• Supports 2 Fabric Channels with 4 1000Base-BX ports (hub connection)
• Supports 2 Fabric Channels with 2 1000Base-BX ports (small mesh interconnect)
• Supports 2 AMC GbE interfaces per AMC slot
• Supports 2 SGMII interfaces to the RTM
• Broadcom BCM5466R PHY for Base Interface and RTM connections