Available as a mezzanine add-on expansion
board to the CCM-BOOGIE and successor CPU
carrier cards, the main purpose of the
C43-SATA is to provide SATA and USB
connectors for system internal usage. In
addition, the C43-SATA can accommodate an
USB Flash drive module. Basically, the C43-SATA
is designed to fit into the 4HP (20.32mm pitch)
envelope of a CPCI CPU carrier board, so that
another 4HP pitch mezzanine expansion board
can be stacked above the CPU/C43 assembly in
addition.
Up to four SATA connectors (latching headers)
are optionally available on the C43-SATA, for
attachment of system internal drives by ordinary
latching SATA cable harnesses. Two of the
SATA channels may be either operated in a low
level RAID (0/1) mode, or as universal non-RAID
SATA ports.The C43-SATA can be optionally equipped with
up to 2 horizontal mount USB type A host
receptacles, for system internal use.
A top mount pin header can be provided for
attachment of a low profile industrial grade
USB solid state drive (SSD) module, available
from several vendors with a capacity of up to
16GB as of current. However, the 4HP total
stack height for the entire assembly comprised
of carrier board CPU, C43-SATA and USB SSD
will be exceeded by up to 1.8mm, depending
on the profile of the USB module locking screw.
This may be tolerable in many situations, but
should be nevertheless considered.
Some of the C43 stuffing options are exclusive
to each other, due to space restrictions on the
C43-SATA.