ADLINK Technology has introduced 3U CompactPCI PlusIO-compatible processor blades that support high-speed, serial, point-to-point connections. The cPCI-3970 and cPCI-3971 are equipped with the quad and dual core second generation Intel Core i7/i5 processor with ECC memory support, and the Intel QM67 platform controller hub. The cPCI-3970 is equipped with hard metric connectors and the PICMG 2.30 compliant cPCI-3971 features an UHM (ultra hard metric) J2 connector with a data transfer speed of 5Gbit/s. For high density computing, the PICMG 2.9-compliant cPCI-3970 can operate in a system slot as a master, or in a peripheral slot as a standalone blade. With riser cards and a rear transition module added, the processor provides I/O interfaces up to two DisplayPort or DVI and HDMI, four serial ports, four SATA ports, five USB 2.0 ports, four GbE ports, PS/2 KB/MS, audio ports, and one PMC/XMC site. With the company's XMC-G460 graphics module installed in the XMC site, the processor supports up to four independent displays. Storage interfaces supported by the processor include one SATA 6Gbit/s direct connector for a 2.5inch HDD/SSD, CompactFlash socket, CFast socket and three SATA ports on RTM with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support.
