First COM Express powered by a server-grade processor

Extreme computing capability
The Intel Xeon processor D-1500 product family brings the performance and advanced intelligence of Intel Xeon processors into a dense, low-power SoC. With enhanced reliability, availability, and serviceability features; platform storage extensions; and built-in hardware virtualisation; the Intel Xeon processor D-1500 product family offers new options for optimising a variety of workloads and infrastructure for midrange routers, network appliances, security appliances, wireless base stations, embedded midrange IoT devices, entry networking, midrange storage area networks (SANs), network attached storage (NAS) appliances, warm cloud storage, and more.

Integrated 10GBase-KR supports non-transparent bridge
In a breakthrough move, the SOM-5991 incorporates two 10GBase-KR interfaces, which should help fulfill the ever-increasing service application demands in the area of COM Express. Users can take advantage of SOM-5991's native 10GBase-KR interfaces to design in 10GbE carrier boards, and it becomes easy that SOM-5991 and its development board are ready for customer as reference design.

Moreover, PCIe x16 and 8 PCIe x1 support Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB), which allows redundancy via PCIe. This helps reduce data loss, allowing a secondary system to take over PCIe storage devices once CPU failed, and provides high availability for applications providing continuous service.

Optimised mechanical design
SOM-5991 has four screw holes near the CPU, positioned in compliance with the Intel standard thermal design guide. The thermal module is attached to the CPU using the design of balanced torque, and it is the first COM Express added a backplane to increase rigidity like single board, so the thermal module makes tight contact with the CPU and no board bending. This results in highly efficient heat dissipation with resulting outstanding computing performance. Advantech also offers an SOM-5991-thermal-solution preassembly service that can make system-level assembly attractively easy.

New development board supports IPMI remote management
SOM-DB5900 is a new Type 6 compliant development board, which was created especially for server grade applications. To implement the remote management user scenario, a BMC controller is integrated on the carrier board, and it also supports graphics with a VGA interface, KVM redirection, storage redirection, IPMI2.0/1.1 though a dedicated NIC (Network Interface Controller) or shared NIC, SOL (serial-over-LAN), remote system BIOS update, etc.

SOM-5991 features:

• l Intel Xeon processor D-1500 product family
• l COM express R2.1 basic module type 6 pin out compatible
• l up to 16 cores with TDP of 45W
• l dual DDR4 2400, 1.2V low power memory, up to 32GB
• l PCIe x16, 8 PCIe x1, 2 x 10GBASE-KR interface
• l supports iManager, WISE-PaaS/RMM and embedded software APIs

SOM-DB5900 features:

• l PICMG COM.0R 2.1 Type 6 pin out compatible
• l COM express basic/compact module
• l PCIe x16 and 2 PCIe x4 extension, optional 2 ports with 10GBase-KR interface
• l integrated BMC supports VGA, dedicated NIC for IPMI and iKVM
• l riser card for 10GBASE-T function extension
• l visible debug utility: BIOS 80 port and power state