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TM xTCA is a trademark of PICMG. © 2015 PICMG Systems & Technology All registered brands and trademarks in AdvancedTCA & CompactPCI Systems are property of their respective owners. Member since 1998 4 | Spring 2015 | PICMG Systems & Technology Resource Guide www.picmg-systems.com Standards Update CompactPCI Serial ascends to Revision 2, AdvancedTCA primed for Ethernet and IPv6 enhancements By Joe Pavlat [email protected] Open standards for embedded com- to grow, and now includes MEN Mikro puting offer the customer a wide range Elektronik GmbH, Elma Electronic, of products, vendor independence, and Kontron, EKF Elektronik GmbH, ADLINK a fairly predictable upgrade path to Technology, Hartmann Electronic, Schroff incorporate new semiconductor, stor- GmbH, Teledyne Lecroy, ADDI-DATA, age, and software technologies. The and others. standards themselves are generally developed and maintained by open A new revision of the standard in now organizations or consortia that work to being released, Revision 2. It adds incre- be inclusive and not beholden to one or mental features and capabilities, which Figure 1 | CompactPCI Serial a few companies. There are many suc- is typical of revisions to well-established › supports both 3U and 6U configurations. cessful open standards organizations in standards. CompactPCI Serial Revision 2 Shown here is an example 9-slot, 3U CompactPCI Serial system (Figure operation, and the IEEE, PICMG, and now supports placement of the system courtesy MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH). VITA are among the best known. slot on either the left or right side of the backplane. More importantly, Revision 2 One of PICMG’s early successful stan- supports additional rear I/O on the P6 dards is CompactPCI, which incorpo- connector and increased capability rates the wealth of PCI silicon developed on rear transition modules (RTMs). for the desktop PC world into a modular Graphics, USB, SATA, and other system and rugged standard for embedded slot connections can now be routed computing. First released in 1995, it out the rear, important for conduction continues to be the solution of choice cooling applications where the front for a very wide range of applications, module is fully encased. PCI Express Figure 2 | Depicted here is an example including the Mars rover, Curiosity (I just can also be routed out the rear, making › CompactPCI