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News Release from: Elma Electronic UK | Subject: PICMG 2.16 compliant development chassis
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 October 2001
PICMG 2.16 compliant development chassis
Elma Electronic UK has released its first PICMG 2.16 compliant development chassis.
Elma Electronic UK has released its first PICMG 2.16 compliant development chassis, complete with 16-slot CompactPCI Packet-Switching Backplane (cPSB), dual 350W power supplies and advanced modular fan system The combination of the early availability of a compliant chassis, built-in redundancy for power and cooling, and access to Elma's customisation service, makes the new turnkey chassis ideal for early development work on high availability 3G wireless, Internet protocol (IP), voice over IP and similar high availability, high bandwidth communications systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 31 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Having been actively involved in the development of the specification as members of the PICMG working group, Elma and its specialist backplane developer Bustronic are ideally placed both to produce compliant products and to assist project managers in gaining maximum benefit from the potential offered by the improved bandwidth and scalability of the PICMG 2.16 specification.
At the heart of the chassis is a 12-layer controlled-impedance stripline backplane, providing a complete turnkey solution for developers needing to explore the capability of switched Ethernet fabric, while retaining compatibility with existing CPCI and H.110 telephony cards.
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By overlaying an embedded Ethernet switching network on the CPCI backplane, cPSB increases even the theoretical 533Mbyte/s bandwidth of CPCI to 5Gbytes/s.
Other benefits of cPSB include increased reliability and the ability to extend beyond a single chassis, or even to integrate multiple racks.
The 9U high chassis complies with PICMG 2.16, as well as PICMG 2.0 R3.0 and supports 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet, with hot-swappable fabric slots enabling up to 14 links to be supported.
The modular cooling system has been designed to offer redundancy even with high power-density applications, with three axial and two radial fans providing up to 300ft3/min of forced air, yet being replaceable without taking the system off-line.
The standard system offers two 47-pin Positronic power supply connectors, with an optional four-connector version also being available.
Power options include DC, AC and universal AC input, with power and fan failure monitoring also being available.
Full technical support is also offered, including application notes introducing the PICMG 2.16 standard, white papers and Elma's established customisation service for advanced backplanes and chassis.
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