The BPX8093 PCI Express backplane, when paired with a PCIe 3.0 capable single board computer like the BXT7059, delivers PCI Express Gen3 link speeds and expanded I/O card bandwidth to military computing, industrial automation, medical diagnostics, communications or GPU computing applications. This backplane supports one PICMG® 1.3 single board computer and up to ten PCI Express I/O cards and nine of these option card slots are PCI Express 3.0 capable. Each option card slot uses a x16 PCIe mechanical connector to maximize system design flexibility by supporting a wide range of standard PCI Express I/O cards.

This PCI Express backplane features six x8 PCI Express 3.0 electrical interface links if paired with a dual-processor BXT7059 single board computer and outfitted with an optional PEX10 & IOB33 PCIe link expansion option cards. This backplane and SBC combination enables system designers to support multiple high-end video or GPU cards within a single rackmount computer. This white paper on Optimizing PCIe3 Backplane Design for Performance and Reliability provides valuable information on the design challenges that must be met for high-performance computing platforms which incorporate PCIe Gen3 backplanes.