Architect from the get go knowing multiple technologies from multiple vendors must be integrated, and cut the time, cost, and effort of deploying integrated network equipment.
The new PICMG committee focused on weaving KR, KX4, and KX fabrics into the existing AdvancedTCA Ethernet standard (PICMG 3.1) is making steady progress toward a release in the first part of 2009.
Uwe and Peter address cost containment, development time, and mezzanine characteristics for developers looking to make the most successful MicroTCA I/O decisions.
Industrial, medical, and other applications can employ virtualization to take advantage of MicroTCA systems and migrate software to new multicore architectures such as the Intel Core Microarchitecture.
Along with a redesigned data acquisition system, the company TechniScan Medical Systems (TMS) relied on the features a CompactPCI board incorporated, including hot swap and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
The next generation of enhanced specifications from the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) wil help hardware platform suppliers – tackle the challenge of delivering fully integrated, tested, application-ready systems.