Keysight M8000 Series - M9506 A Axie Chassis

30 Keysight M8000 Series of BER Test Solutions Installation Guide
2 Installing Modules
M9506A AXIe Chassis
The Keysight M9506A AXIe chassis is a modular instrument chassis fully
compatible with the AXIe Wide PCIe specification. It allows multiple
application-specific instrument modules to share a common chassis
frame, power supply, cooling system, PCI Express (PCIe) x16 Generation
(Gen) 3 backplane, Gigabit LAN hub, local bus for module-to-module
signaling, and host PC connections. The full rack chassis provides five
general purpose peripheral slots that accept 1U AXIe instrument modules.
Additional features include:
• Up to 300 W per slot power
• Five AXIe Wide compliant slots
• PCIe x16 Gen 3 Backplane allows module to module communication
• Default PCIe configuration merges both cable ports to one Gen 3 x16
PCIe Cable Port.
• Open AXIe Zone 3 for custom use (cable access, analog backplane,
etc.)
• Thunderbolt™ 3 Connection Port
1
• Cascaded PCIe for multiple chassis systems
• Parallel and Star Triggering
• Push-pull fan system for quieter operation
1 Thunderbolt™ is the brand name of an interface standard developed by Intel (in
conjunction with Apple) that allows connection of external peripherals to a
computer. Thunderbolt 3 specification provides Gen 3 PCI Express (PCIe),
DisplayPort, and DC power in one USB-C compatible cable; only PCIe is
supported on the M9506A. Charging devices such as laptop computers over
Thunderbolt 3 is not supported on the M9506A.