xTCA
AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, AdvancedMC, Hardware Platform Management (HPM)
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PICMG standards adoption growing in Asia, Europe with COM Express leading the way
Leaders of PICMG say that their standards continue to grow in adoption across the globe, with COM Express making huge inroads in Asia and Internet of Things (IoT) markets while CompactPCI Serial grows in acceptance in Europe.
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2017 marks significant changes for PICMG
Last year ended with the loss of Joe Pavlat, who successfully led this organization for over 20 years. He worked with members to establish PICMG as a global leader in open standards for embedded computing. We are grateful for his service and will continue to build and improve the organization he helped found.
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PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers' Group (PICMG) Consortium Info
PICMG is a nonprofit consortium of companies and organizations that collaboratively develop open standards for high-performance telecommunications, military, industrial, and general-purpose embedded computing applications.
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Pixus New Blower Options for AdvancedTCA Shelf Provides Up to 2300 CFM of Airflow
Pixus Technologies, a provider of embedded computing and enclosure solutions, offers its 15U AdvancedTCA Chassis with new blowers that are more powerful and efficient.
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Schroff ServCite Rack: A new generation of speed, storage and data processing capacity
Pentair, a global leader in protecting critical processes, people and the environment, presents the new Schroff ServCite rack based on the highly efficient OCP (Open Compute Project) concept.
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Ericsson raises the bar with high-current 780W power interface module for ATCA applications
• Quarter-brick power interface module (PIM) converter targets high-power Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) server applications • Feature-packed ultra-high-efficiency module delivers 15A output current at 82°C with 1.5m/s (300 LFM) airflow • Low-EMI design meets CISPR Class B with minimal external components • Extensive range of energy monitoring functionalities via I2C or PMBus
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On the loss of Joe Pavlat, a friend and mentor
My first day of work in the embedded computing space came the day after the Super Bowl in 2011. I had about as much knowledge of the high-tech industry as your casual commuter who catches a news snippet on one of the big five tech companies while buying their morning coffee, and frankly didn’t think [...]
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Pentair delivers the first 100 Gbps Schroff AdvancedTCA backplane
Schroff AdvancedTCA Shelf for faster data transmission
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COM Express
This popular standard continues to be updated as improvements and changes to silicon continue. The subcommittee has been focused on support for four 10 G KR interfaces with a new Type 7 pinout. Discussions have revolved around the total number of signals to support the 10 G channels, including interfaces for PHY configuration, LEDs, and [...]
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Hardware Platform Management
The Hardware Platform Management (HPM) subcommittee started work in January 2015 with a focus on enabling the PICMG HPM layer for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). See the article “Adding IoT friendliness to AdvancedTCA and related specifications” in the Winter 2015 issue of PICMG Systems and Technology for background on the history and importance of [...]
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Physics activities
The Physics community that developed ATCA 3.8 rear transition module (RTM) extension and MTCA.4 with µRTM is very close to issuing a set of new hardware extensions, called MTCA.4.1, which introduce an additional rear backplane to support both precision analog and digital functions. The backplane supports ancillary rear power modules that can deliver positive and [...]
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100 G AdvancedTCA
PICMG recently released Revision 3 of the PICMG 3.1 specification, which defines the use of Ethernet (and Fibre Channel) on the AdvancedTCA (ATCA) backplane. This important update increases the backplane bandwidth by 2.5 times, from 40 GB/s to 100 GB/s. ATCA remains the fastest open standard for communications applications; this increased bandwidth is critical for [...]
John McHale, Editorial Director
Pixus Technologies
schroff.pentair.com
