The Kontron 4U backplane xPB-13E9P3 for PICMG 1.3-based system provides PCI and PCI Express Gen 2 support for full-height 4U systems.

The number of PCIe lanes is 32 in total.

In order to support any standard PCIe extension card, an integrated non-blocking switch doubles the 16 PCI Express lanes from the system host board (SHB) to the four PCIe x4 Gen 2 slots and the PEG slot on the backplane.

The switch is configurable via software, allowing each of the x4 slots to be individually populated with x1, x2 or x4 I/O cards.

The PCIe bandwidth can also be routed directly to dedicated ports without disturbing the CPU board. The three PCI slots of the Kontron xPB-13E9P3 allow OEMs to easily leverage existing PCI extension cards.

The PICMG 1.3 backplane has resources for applications where multiple video cards are required, such as in test, digital mock-up and simulation.