| Netra CP3010 Board User's Guide |    
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| Netra CP3010 Board User's Guide |
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| C H A P T E R 1 |
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Introduction to the Netra CP3010 Board |
This chapter contains the following sections:
The Netra
CP3010 board is a high-performance single-board computer based on two UltraSPARC® IIIi processors and designed for high availability in a switched network computing environment. This board is compliant with Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture® (ATCA) specifications (PICMG® 3.0 and PICMG 3.1) and can achieve greater performance levels than compactPCI (cPCI) standards-based products targeted for telco markets.
The PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) standards committee has developed the new standard ATCA (or PICMG 3.x) to address the issues posed by previous standards based on cPCI and cPSB (PICMG 2.x). The PICMG 3.x specification brought the following changes to the existing PICMG 2.x family of products:
The ATCA standard consists of the PICMG 3.0, PICMG 3.1, PICMG 3.2, and PICMG 3.3 specifications. The Netra CP3010 board complies with:
The Netra CP3010 board provides two 10/100BASE-T Ethernet interfaces for the Base Fabric interface (a requirement of PICMG 3.0) and two serializer, deserializer (SERDES) gigabit Ethernet interfaces (PICMG 3.1) for the Extended Fabric interface. The Base Fabric interface is used as the control interface and the Extended Fabric interface can be used for data traffic. Both Base Fabric and Extended Fabric interfaces are configured as Dual Star configurations.
Netra CP3010 board features include:
FIGURE 1-1 shows the Netra CP3010 board and front panel.
FIGURE 1-2 shows the component veiw of the Netra CP3010 board.
TABLE 1-1 lists features of the board.
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Note - For EMI compliance of front access ports, use shielded cables on all I/O ports. The shields for all shielded cables must be terminated on both ends. |
Netra CP3010 boards can be installed in an ATCA shelf (or chassis), shown in FIGURE 1-3. The boards can be deployed in various electrical configurations to suit each end-user requirement. For example, the board can be configured to boot from a network as a diskless client with either a front panel or rear transition card network connection, or from an optional Compact Flash card. Alternatively, industry-standard PCI Mezzanine card (PMC) and PCI Interface Module (PIM) hardware from IHVs can be installed to provide local disk I/O, which can be used optionally as a boot path. The Netra CP3010 board has fixed on-board memory and connectors for additional memory.
The Netra CP3010 board has two PMC slots to provide additional I/O to the front panels or to the rear of the enclosure when used with a rear transition card. PMC modules decode their custom I/O from the Netra CP3010 board's on-board PCI bus A signals. A rear transition card can also be fitted with PIMs to bring I/O channels to the rear of the unit. See Section A.6.2, PMC Connectors for more information.
The optional Netra CP30X0 rear transition card installs into the rear of the ATCA enclosure, opposite the Netra CP3010 board (see FIGURE 1-5). The card connects with the host Zone 3 rear I/O connectors and carries two serial ports, two Dual gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports with RJ-45 connectors, and a two-channel SAS port to its rear-panel flange (see FIGURE 1-4).
FIGURE 1-5 shows the physical relationship between the board, rear transition card, and the midplane in a typical ATCA system.
The rear transition card can also be fitted with PIM modules that are configured to bring I/O channels to the unit's rear panel. A PIM hardware kit includes a card for the PMC slot and a card for the PIM slot on the rear transition card. A PIM is a rear-panel extension added to a PMC module. When the PIM I/O is configured, the front PMC I/O output is not accessible.
The customer can order the Netra CP30X0 rear transition card, build a custom card, or buy from an IHV. A minimal set of I/O must provide a boot path for the host board and a path for console I/O to deliver commands and to read board and system status.
Possible boot and console configurations are described in TABLE 1-2. Sun Microsystems provides the Netra CP3010 board and a compatible Netra CP30X0 rear transition card. This card provides two 10/100BASE-T Ethernet RJ-45 ports from the host to the rear of the system, which can optionally be used to accomplish a network boot as a diskless client. The other configurations require IHV hardware.
This section briefly discusses the hot-swap support on the Netra CP3010 board.
See the PICMG CompactPCI Hot Swap Specification, which provides a detailed description of this subject. In general, the hot-swap process includes the orderly connection of the hardware and software.
This process uses hardware connection control to connect the hardware in an orderly sequence. The process includes the use of backplane pins of different lengths to accomplish signal sequencing, protect the hardware, and avoid corrupting the backplane bus.
There are three hot-swap models described in the PICMG CompactPCI Hot Swap Specification: basic hot-swap, full hot-swap, and high-availability (HA) hot-swap.
This section contains the system-level hardware and software requirements for the Netra CP3010 board.
Sun provides the following items for customer order:
The rear transition card enables rear system I/O access to the network, to a boot device, and to a console terminal (shown in FIGURE 1-4). Refer to the Netra CP30X0 Rear Transition Card User's Guide (819-1187) for more information.
This rear transition card is optional and must be ordered separately from the Netra CP3010 board.
An IDE Compact Flash card is optional and must be ordered separately.
Acquire the following components, if needed:
TABLE 1-3 lists ATCA and other minimum requirements met by the Netra CP3010 board.
The Netra CP3010 board supports the following versions of the Solaris OS:
Refer to the Netra CP3010 Board Product Notes (819-1181) for more Solaris OS information, including a list of the required Netra software patches. You can view and download the latest version of this manual at the following web site:
http://www.sun.com/documentation
Should you have any technical questions or support issues that are not addressed in the Netra CP3010 board documentation set or on the web site, contact your local Sun Services representative. This hardware carries a 1-year return-to-depot warranty. For customers in the US or Canada, please call 1-800-USA-4SUN (1-800-872-4786). For customers in the rest of the world, find the World Wide Solution Center nearest you by visiting our web site:
http://www.sun.com/service/contacting/solution.html
When you call Sun Services, be sure to indicate that the Netra CP3010 board was purchased separately and is not associated with a system. Please have the board identification information ready. For proper identification of the board be prepared to give the representative the board part number, serial number, and date code (see FIGURE 1-6).
The Netra CP3010 board part number, serial number, and version can be found on stickers located on the card (see FIGURE 1-6).
The Sun barcode label provides the following information:
The dash/revision/date code label provides the following information:
The MAC address label contains the MAC address for the board in printed and barcode form. See Section 2.4.6, Replacing the EEPROM for information on installation and removal of the MAC address label.
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Note - You might find the labels shown in FIGURE 1-6 on other locations on your board. Also, your particular board configuration might appear different from the preceding illustration. |
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