Pelican™ PMC Carrier for 6U Compact PCI

Versatile dual PMC carrier for 6U cPCI slots

Use PMCs to build powerful, high density cPCI systems while conserving slot space

• Dual PMC sites
• Front or rear I/O connections
• Hot swappable 
• Optional onboard Ethernet ports 

The Pelican™ 6U cPCI Carrier hosts two PMC cards and supports 32 or 64-bit operation at 33 or 66 MHz. The PMCs are connected to an onboard secondary PCI bus which is transparently bridged to the offboard primary bus making both PMCs visible to the cPCI system. VIO for the PMC sites can be set for 3.3 or 5.0 VDC signaling.

 Pelican 6U cPCI Dual PMC Carrier

Rear I/O Capability (Optional)
In addition to normal front I/O, the Pelican™ 6U cPCI Carrier also features the ability to make rear I/O connections. User-defined I/O signals from each PMC site pass through the cPCI backplane on connectors J3 and J5, which mate with the optional Rear Transition Module (RTM). Signals are routed to two industry standard PMC I/O Module (PIM) sites on the RTM. PIMs provided by the PMC vendor are mounted on the RTM to provide the final connection point. Up to 64 bits of I/O are supported for each PMC.

Hot Swap Capability
Basic Hot Swap and Full Hot Swap are supported, enabling the orderly insertion or extraction of boards without adversely affecting a running system. When used with an operating system that supports hot swap, a blue Hot Swap LED illuminates when extraction is permitted and the card can be safely removed.

Dual Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Optional)
The Pelican™ 6U cPCI Carrier can be configured with two optional Gigabit Ethernet Controllers, which provide two network interfaces for 10/100/1000 Mb/s full- and half-duplex operation. The two ports are accessible via rear I/O using the optional Rear Transition Module only.

• 6U cPCI carrier board with sites for two PMCs
• Supports 32 or 64-bit operation at 33 or 66 MHz
• Full hot swap capability, PICMG 2.1 R2.0 compliant
• Status LED for Hot Swap (blue
• Front or rear panel I/O support for PMC sites
• Selectable 3.3V or 5V PCI signaling for PMC sites
• Supports universal (3.3V or 5V) signaling on the cPCI backplane
• Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers accessible through rear I/O (optional)

 Pelican^TM 6U cPCI Dual PMC Carrier

 Pelican^TM 6U cPCI Rear Transition Module

Pelican 6U cPCI Specifications

*  Available only when Carrier and RTM are used together
** Power consumption based on unpopulated carrier with onboard Ethernet controllers. Actual consumption will vary depending on PMC module power requirements.

Rear TransitionModule Specifications

 † Requires matching PIM from the PMC vendor; Connection scheme is specified by the vendor
‡ Available only when Carrier is configured with onboard Ethernet controller (see Model Numbers)

Model Numbers