CompactPCI Serial backplanes have the following parameters:
- panel height 3 U,
- number of slots: 4-5 (without rear I/O boards, star topology), 9 (with rear I/O boards, star / full mesh topology),
- 1 system slot (left) and 1 ... 8 peripheral slots
- PCIe: 2 x 8 lanes and 6 x 4 lanes
- power supply: +5 /12 V
- supports PCIe (Gen3), USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, S-ATA (II & Rev. 3.0) and Ethernet (10GBase-T)
- in accordance with PICMG CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0 R1.0)