Kontron 2U Butterfly Backplane xPB-6E5PO

The Kontron 2U Butterfly Backplane xPB-6E5PO for PICMG 1.3-based system designs has PCI Express Gen 2 support. The device uses COTS components.

The device is designed for highest throughput (5.0 GT/s) with the latest frame grabbers, graphics and network cards.

The space-saving butterfly backplane was developed for image processing, gaming and infotainment as well as networking applications. Via standard graphics cards, the high-speed backplane can provide, for example, 10 displays with different video signals.

With high-end components, control of up to 40 monitors - each with different content - is possible. In the same way, very fast image processing systems with multiple frame grabbers and graphics cards or ultra-bandwidth routers with integrated firewall and 2 x 10 gigabit ethernet for upstream and downstream can be implemented.

For expansion ports, it has 1 x PEG (PCIe x16), 1 x PCIe x8 and 3 x PCIe x4 as well as the PICMG 1.3 slot for the system host board. Connections for 4 x USB 2.0, 2 x SATA and 1 x LAN are included.

To support multiple PCI Express Gen 2 interfaces with any standard PCMG 1.3 module, an integrated non-blocking switch links four PCIe slots to the PCI x16 interface of the system host board.