About this product
The EMS Express11-G3 backplane provides 11 eight-lane PCI Express slots, all implemented as x16 physical connectors, using advanced PCIe 3.0 switches to create a high-bandwidth fabric connecting up to 11 PCIe plug-in cards to a host system. Each slot gets up to 8GB/s full-duplex bandwidth. It can be used with a standard PICMG 1.3 SBC as a standalone system, or — using an HLink-G3 card in the master chassis paired with an ExCable-G3 and SLink-G3 card in the expansion chassis — combined with multiple backplanes to provide a PCI Express expansion system for a standard PC.
Multiple Express11-G3 backplanes (or a mixture of Express9-G3 and Express11-G3) can be configured in a daisy-chain or star expansion topology. EMS recommends the star configuration for larger systems, since it keeps every expansion chassis connected directly back to the master rather than passing through intermediate chassis. Onboard temperature sensors are monitored by EMS Wall Monitor software, giving operators an early warning if a chassis starts running hot.
