B.2 CompactPCI Features

B.2 CompactPCI Features
	Appendix B. CompactPCI Hot Swap Overview

The following list illustrates the main features of CompactPCI:

33 and 66 MHz PCI performance
32- and 64-bit data transfers
8 CompactPCI slots per bus segment at 33 MHz
5 CompactPCI slots per bus segment at 66 MHz
Industry standard software support
3U and 6U form factor
IEEE (1101.1, 1101.10, and 1101.11) Eurocard packaging
Wide variety of available I/O
System management bus
Hot swap support

A CompactPCI system is composed of one or more CompactPCI bus segments. Each segment is composed of up to eight CompactPCI slots (at 33MHz). Each CompactPCI segment bus consists of one System slot, and up to seven Peripheral slots. Physically the system's slot can be located at any position in the backplane.
The Peripheral slots may contain simple boards, intelligent slaves, or PCI bus masters.