Backplanes boast full ATCA applications coverage
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ATCA backplanes
A new series of ATCA backplanes ranges from a four-slot design for development use through to a 16-slot unit for ETSI or 600mm rack systems.
A new series of AdvancedTCA (ATCA) backplanes ranges from afour-slot design for development use or horizontally mountedsystems with triple full mesh interconnectivity, through to a16-slot unit for ETSI or 600mm rack systems.
In recent testing byXilinx, a Rittal ATCA 18-layer Nelco4000 based full meshbackplane achieved 5Gbit/s performance unaided (PICMG 3 calls for3.125Gbit/s) and with enhancement by Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XFPGAs, it reached 10Gbit/s.
Individual backplane designs areaffected by the type of shelf management controller (ShMC) used,and the peripheral controller is also dependant on the ShMC.
Thenew range supports ShMCs from Pigeon Point, Intel and ForceComputers.
The Rittal ATCA backplanes have dual IntelligentPlatform Management Interfaces (IPMI), which may be configured aseither radial or bused, again depending on the ShMC used.
Therange includes full mesh architecture, dual star, dual-dual starand dual-dual star with 1x mesh overlay.
All backplanes in therange are designed to meet the PICMG 3 series of specifications,and Rittal can develop individual solutions based on customerapplications.
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