This PICMG® 2.16-compliant single board computer offers excellent value with an optimized feature set to support a broad range of telecom and Internet applications. Modular and standards-based, the ZT 5504e supports efficient time-to-market development. It is part of our IPnexus™ family of embedded packet products and is also designed to interoperate with any third-party PICMG 2.16-compatible boards.
The ZT 5504e Single Board Computer is IPMI-based for increased management capabilities and reliability. Performance comes from the 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III processor-Low Power (BGA2). An optional CD-ROM drive mezzanine facilitates simplified installation of software for enhanced application support. The ZT 5504e can also operate in drone mode in a peripheral slot, whereby it functions as a stand-alone computer and does not communicate on the CompactPCI® bus.
The PICMG 2.16 specification blends the benefits of CompactPCI with the broad acceptance of Ethernet. Performance Technologies' high-performance building blocks simplify development and provide an economical, scalable path to the next-generation Internet and voice communications network.
The 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III processor provides excellent computing power for the embedded system designer, incorporating a 100MHz processor side bus and 256KB of L2 cache.
The ZT 5504e is validated to operate in a PICMG 2.16-compliant system such as the IPnexus ZT 5091e 4U Packet-Switched Platform, a high-density computing platform for carrier-grade telecom and Internet applications. It is also designed to interoperate with third-party PSB products. The ZT 5504e features an integrated IPMI-based Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), compliant with the PICMG 2.9 system management specification. When used in a system with the CPC7301 Intelligent Shelf Manager (ISM), it supports a comprehensive, protected lights-out management scheme.
The ZT 5504e functions as a system master processor board in a 6U CompactPCI multiprocessing system. It interfaces to the backplane through a transparent, PCI-to-PCI (P2P) bridge, allowing it to communicate directly with all peripheral CPU boards in the system via the CompactPCI bus.
Optionally, the ZT 5504e can operate in a peripheral slot in drone mode, where it receives power but does not communicate on the CompactPCI bus. Onboard logic qualifies the location of the board when inserted into a peripheral slot, thereby isolating it from the bus.
All RAM options are Error-Correcting Code (ECC) SDRAM for improved reliability and data integrity. The Intel® Pentium® III processor contains integrated L1 and L2 cache memory, and the board supports memory options of 1GB.
The ZT 5504e includes 4MB onboard flash memory, which supports the field-upgradeable system BIOS and may store a bootable operating system image. Additional flash memory capacity can be added with an optional CompactFlash carrier mezzanine card, available in lieu of a hard drive. This rugged, solid-state storage solution provides complete software compatibility with operating systems and applications supporting standard IDE devices.
Two Ethernet ports, provided via onboard 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN interfaces, deliver high networking performance and may be routed to the front or rear panel through the BIOS setup configuration. Both 10 or 100Mb Ethernet protocols are provided through auto-configuring RJ-45 front panel connectors. Link and activity status LEDs indicate Ethernet operation.
A EIDE hard drive is mounted on the ZT 5504e as part of the standard product configuration. Space remains on the baseboard and connectors are provided for a single PMC card.
An onboard, two-stage watchdog timer enhances system reliability. Once enabled, failure to strobe the watchdog timer within a programmable time period (1s, 8s, 64s, 256s) generates a non-maskable interrupt (NMI or processor "INIT"), followed by a hardware reset.
An onboard SVGA-compatible graphics controller, CHPS 69000, is included with video connectors provided on the front plate.
The ZT 5504e comes standard with an embedded BIOS loaded in onboard Flash. The BIOS is user-configurable to boot an operating system residing in local Flash memory, from a fixed or floppy drive, or over a network. The ZT 5504e is PC-compatible and will run operating systems developed for the PC. Enhanced support is also provided for Windows 2000, Linux and VxWorks, including additional drivers for select peripherals and flash drives.
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The ZT 5504e is compliant with the following specifications:
The PICMG 2.16 CompactPCI packet-switched backplane specification is designed to accelerate the convergence of telecom and Internet IP-based applications including Web servers, mail servers, cache servers, VPN switches, media gateways, 2.5G and 3G wireless, server clusters, IP DSLAM and voice/video/data servers. The modular design simplifies development with standards-based modules. Backplane interconnect speeds are user-definable and scalable from 10 Mbps to 2000 Mps per node slot.
| Power Req. (Typical) | Supply Voltage, Vcc (+5VDC +5%, -3%) Supply Current, Vcc=5.0VDC (4A) Supply Voltage, V3.3V (+3.3VDC +5%, -3%) Supply Current, V3.3V=3.3VDC (6A) Supply Voltage, V12.0V (+12VDC +/-10%) Supply Current, V12V=12.0B (20mA) |
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| Mechanical | Measures: 9.2” x 6.3 (233.35mm x 160mm) Width: 0.8" (1 slot - 4HP) Connector: IEC-1076-4-101 (J1-J5) |
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| Environmental | Operating temperature (requires 200 LFM airflow): 0° to 50° C Storage temperature: (with hard disk) -40° to +65° C (without hard disk) -40° to +85° C Non-condensing relative humidity: less than 95% at 40° C |
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| * Custom configuration only Note: To provide proper cooling to the ZT 5504e, each unused slot in the chassis should be populated with an air management blade. All rear slots should be populated with a rear filler panel. See the list below for orderable components:
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