Available as a mezzanine add-on expansion
board to the CCM-BOOGIE, PC1-GROOVE and
successor CPU carrier cards, the main purpose
of the C47-MSATA is to provide dual host
connectors for mounting of mSATA SSD
modules, as a rugged and fast mass storage
media. With both sockets in use, a SATA RAID
level 0/1 system can be easily established, for
even higher performance and reliability.
MSATA host connectors are mechanically
identical to the PCI Express® Mini Card
specification. With respect to the signal routing,
the C47-SATA allows also for use of USB driven
PCI Express® Mini Card modules, as an
alternate to mSATA SSDs. There are USB
controlled SSDs available in the market, and
many wireless PCI Express® Mini Cards are also
based solely on the USB data path. Please note
however, that no antenna connectors are
provided on the C47-SATA for wireless
applications. In contrast, such PCI Express®
Mini Card modules which need support for a
PCI Express® lane cannot be used with the
C47-SATA
Basically, the C47-MSATA is designed to fit into
the 4HP (20.32mm) envelope of a CompactPCI®
CPU carrier board, so that another 4HP pitch
mezzanine expansion board may be stacked
above the CPU/C47 assembly in addition. The
C47-MSATA accommodates either full-size
(50.8mm length, fixed by latch) or mini-size
(26.8mm length, screw lock) mSATA modules.
The C47-MSATA can be optionally equipped
with one ore even two USB 2.0 type A host
receptacles 1). In addition, up to two SATA
connectors (latching headers) are optionally
available on the C47-MSATA 1), for attachment
of system internal drives by ordinary SATA cable
harnesses. Both cable connector options will
exceed the 4HP total stack height for the CPU
carrier board and C47-MSATA assembly. Please
read carefully the respective notes. For some
EKF expansion boards slight violations of the
4HP envelope may be tolerable.
1) Some of the C47-MSATA population options
are exclusive to each other, due to space
restrictions (see table below).