Specifications

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1PRODUCT OVERVIEW
ThePromentumATCA‐4500,ATCA‐4550,andATCA‐4555ComputeProcessingModules
(CPMs)arehigh‐performancegeneral‐purposecomputingmodulesthatprovidemulti‐
coreprocessingpowerandmultipledata‐storageoptionswithinasingleslot.TheCPMis
idealforcontrolplaneandserverfunctionsforLTEwirelessinfrastructure,DeepPacket
Inspection,IPTV,IPmultimediasubsystems,anddefenseapplications.
AnIntel®Xeon®processorwithhyper‐threadingtechnologyandanintegratedmemory
controllergivestheCPMaccesstoupto64GBofmemory.TheCPMcanhostamid‐size
advancedmezzaninecard(AMC),supportingEthernet,PCIExpress,SAS,andSATA
connectionstotheAMC.TheCPMcanalsoprovideadditionalI/Oconnectionsthroughan
optionalreartransitionmodule(RTM)thatcontainsaSASharddiskdrive.
TheCPMcomeswithanextensiblefirmwareinterface(EFI)compliantBIOSthatincludes
anEFIshell.TheEFIshellallowscommandandscriptexecutionbeforeoperatingsystem
initialization.TheCPMisintendedtorunaLinuxoperatingsystem,whichissupportedby
RadiSysPromentumsoftwarepackages.ForalistofsupportedCPMoperatingsystems,
seetheATCA‐4500,ATCA‐4550,andATCA‐4555productrevisionlevelssectioninthe
releasenotesforthelatestPromentumsoftwarerelease.
TheCPMiscompatiblewiththePICMG®3.0AdvancedTelecommunicationsComputing
Architecture(ATCA)specification.Themodulesupportsdual1‐gigabitEthernet(GbE)links
fortheBaseinterfacethatarePICMG3.0compliant,anddual10GbElinksfortheFabric
interfacethatarePICMG3.1(option1or9)compliant.