Embedded Computing Katana®PPB Real-Time Processing Blade in Standard Single-Slot AdvancedTCA® Formfactor

• Up to six PowerPPC 7448 processors
  • Dual Freescale® PowerPC™ 7448 processors running up to 1GHz on the baseboard
  • Up to four Freescale PowerPC 7448 processors running up to 1GHz on four modules
• ATCA PICMG® 3.1 Option 3
• Up to 1GB DDR SDRAM with ECC in SO-DIMM package on the baseboard and up to 512MB DDR SDRAM on each processor module
• 128MB of flash memory on the baseboard and total of 256MB of flash memory on four modules
• Managed L2/L3 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
• Dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet with access to on board switch fabric
• Dual 10/100 Ethernet front panel access per module
• IPMI Controller with redundant intelligent platform management bus
• Carrier Grade Linux® and VxWorks® support
• RoHS/WEEE compliant configuration available
• Quality assured by over 35 years of design experience and a TL-9000 and ISO 9001:2000 certified quality management system. (FM 26789)

The KatanaPPB is a high-speed multiprocessor AdvancedTCA™ (ATCA) telecom blade optimized for control and packet processing applications such as WAN access, SS7/SIGTRAN signaling, media gateways, wireless base station controllers, radio network controllers and softswitches. It is equipped with up to six Freescale PowerPC MPC7448 processors, two processors on the base board and up to four processors mounted on four processor PMC (PrPMC) modules. Each processor complex has its own DRAM and flash memory. The KatanaPPB features a high-speed PICMG 3.1 compliant ATCA interface with ten Gigabit Ethernet channels, 2 base channels, plus 2 fabric channels with 4 ports each.

To optimize control performance and packet processing throughput, the KatanaPPB employs a versatile multiprocessor interconnect with separate control and data planes. The product uses a local PCI bus to interconnect all six processors for the control plane. The on-board GbE switch eliminates the packet routing processing overhead of traditional data plane architectures.

The KatanaPPB features a PICMG 3.0 Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI version 1.5 with ATCA extensions). This interface, which incorporates dual I²Cbased Intelligent Platform Management Buses (IPMB), enhances system management by making it easy for shelf management controllers to monitor, control and exchange information with the KatanaPPB.

Katana is a Japanese word for ‘sword’. Emerson’s Katana family of processor blades embodies the power and swiftness of this sword.

• Single or Dual PowerPC MPC7448 processors running at up to 1GHz
• Each processor
  • 133MHz MPX bus
  • 64-bit data bus
  • 36-bit address bus
  • 32K I / 32K D L1 Cache
  • 512KB L2 Cache with ECC
  • Altivec™ Vector Unit

• Up to four PowerPC MPC7448 processors running up to 1GHz
• 32-bit address bus, 64-bit data bus
• L1 Cache
  • 32K, 32-byte line, 8-way set associative instruction and data cache
  • Single-cycle cache access
• 1MB on-chip core speed L2 Cache with ECC for 7448 configuration
• Altivec® vector unit

• Marvell Discovery™ III system controller
• PCI bridge
• 3GbE interface to Marvel L2/3 98DX250 switch
• I²C interface
• DDR SDRAM controller
• Four timer/counters, each selectable as a counter or timer
• 32-bit watchdog timer
• 4 IDMA Controllers
• DMA
  • 4-Channel DMA support
  • High-speed data movement between any module resources without significant CPU intervention
• PCI
  • 33MHz operation via Marvell Discovery system controller
  • 32-bit data path
  • PCI 2.2

• SDRAM
  • Up to 1Gb SDRAM with Error Checking and Correction (ECC)
  • Dual data rate (DDR) operation clocked at 166MHz
  • Modular and upgradeable 200-pin SO-DIMM packaging
• User Flash
  • Redundant auto boot failover
  • 64 or 128 MByte Flash configurations
  • True Flash File System™ (TFFS) support under VxWorks
  • Flash Architecture NOR
• Serial EEPROM
• 64KB Serial EEPROM on I²C bus for configuration data

• SDRAM
  • 512MB SDRAM with ECC
  • Modular and upgradeable SODIMM packaging
  • 166MHz operation
• Flash
  • Redundant auto boot failover
  • 32 or 64MB Flash configurations
  • Flash Architecture NOR

• Ethernet
  • Embedded System Area Network (ESAN)
    • AdvancedTCA (ATCA – PICMG 3.1) Option
    • Dual 1000 Base-Tx Base interface for control plane
    • Octal 1000 Base-Bx High Speed Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) ports for fabric interface
• JTAG/COP
  • JTAG/COP Processor debug interface
  • IEEE 1149.1 compatible
• I²C
  • Master/Slave I²C bus connecting
    • Serial EEPROMs
    • Real-time clock device w/ supercap backup

• Ethernet
  • Two 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet ports with access to onboard switch fabric
  • Single 10/100BaseTX Ethernet port with front bezel access
• Serial Ports
  • RS-232 asynchronous serial ports via front
• I²C
  • Master or slave mode
• General Purpose Timers
  • Four 32-bit counter/timers
  • 32-bit watchdog timer
• Real Time Clock
  • I²C
• GPIO
  • 8-TLL compatible lines on P14

• Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC)
• Dual redundant IPM Bus interfaces (IPMB-A/B)
• Supports Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) w/ PICMG 3.0 enhancements
• Intelligent Platform Management Features
  • E-Keying
  • Payload Power Control
  • Payload Reset
  • Temp/Voltage monitor
  • FRU data structure

• ATCA Hot Swap front panel LED
• ATCA LED1 Failure/Out of Service
• ATCA LED2 User Defined
• ATCA LED3 User Defined
• Recessed front panel reset switch

• Recessed front panel reset switch

• ATCA PICMG 3.0 form factor
• Dimensions: 322.25mm W x 280mm D x <30.48mm H (not including front panel, handles)
• Power requirements: 170W estimated typical with four modules.
• Operating range: 0° to 55° C, 5 to 95% relative humidity (non-condensing) to meet or exceed NEBS Telcordia GR-63 specification.

• 60950 UL/CSA/IEC/AS/NZS
• FCC Part 15 (US)
• ICES 003, (Canada)
• NEBS: Telcordia® GR-1089 and GR-63 applicable sections
• EN55022
• EN55024
• EN300386

• Bootloader monitor with power-on self test
• Board support package for VxWorks® 5.5/Tornado® 2.2
• CG Linux® support package
• Reference kernel port for GPL Linux

• KatanaQP
• PmPPC7447
• PmPPC7448