The MIC-3358A is an Intel Pentium 4 Processor-M based CompactPCI server blade, fully compliant with the PICMG 2.16 Packet Switched Backplane specification. It provides a cost effective platform for applications that demand low power and high performance. The MIC-3358A can be used in either a system slot or peripheral slot, making it an ideal choice for emerging applications requiring fast switched-fabric interconnection between blades. With these features and full hot swap functionality, the MIC-3358A is well-suited for mission critical telecom and data communication applications such as 3G wireless infrastructure, Voice-over-IP, media gateways, soft switches and triple play server clusters. The MIC-3358A is designed around the Intel 845E chipset, and delivers compelling system bus performance across a 400 MHz Intel NetBurst microarchitecture. Its innovative wider data paths and flexible memory refresh technology help to maximize DDR SDRAM performance. In addition to a full array of industry standard I/O features, the MIC-3358A also provides dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and one PMC site for onboard I/O expansion. The MIC-3358A single board computing blade is ready to meet the demanding performance, computation-intensive and I/O processing needs.