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Chapter 8
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Intelligent Peripheral Management Controller
8.1 Overview
The ATCA-9405 provides an intelligent hardware management system, as defined in the
AdvancedTCA® Base Specification (PICMG® 3.0; AMC.0). This system incorporates two IPMI
controllers:
 An Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) based on the BMR-H8S-AMCc®
reference design from Pigeon Point Systems.
 A Module Management Controller (MMC) residing at the RTM based on the BMR-AVR-
AMCm® reference design from Pigeon Point Systems.
Pigeon Point Systems IPM Sentry products are consistent with all current PICMG specifications
as well as IPMI v1.5 compliant with specific 2.0 extensions.
8.2 Functional Overview
The ATCA-9405 implements all the standard Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
commands and provides hardware interfaces for other system management features such as
Hot Swap control, LED control, power control, and temperature and voltage monitoring. The
IPMC also supports a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) based host interface for direct payload to
IPMI communication.
The ATCA-9405 provides the following features:
 HPM.1 firmware upgrades and crisis recovery
 IPMI messaging
 IPMI channels and sessions
 Sensor Data Records and SDR Repository
 FRU Inventory
 Sensors
 POST
 Asynchronous Event Notification
 U-boot Boot Configuration Parameter
 Payload Boot Bank Selection