IDT7M9516

The C3 family are CPU mezzanine daughtercards based on IDT's MIPS processors. The C3 Card family IDT7M9516 is designed to replace the CPU and specific support circuitry around the CPU in a system design. The goal of the C3 is to provide the system designer a seamless hardware migration path through IDT's family of 64-bit MIPS processors(R4650, R4700, R64475, R5000, R64575), and to simplify the overall system implementation requirements of IDT7M9516.

Each of the above processors has a unique pin configuration/package; therefore, a system designer of IDT7M9516 would normally be required to implement a unique board design for each of the processors. The goal of the C3 is to eliminate the differences between these processors at the system interface level, and to allow the system designer to implement a single baseboard design which will support C3 cards featuring the R4650, R4700, R64475, R5000, R64575 or future processors.