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News Release from: Pigeon Point Systems | Subject: Micro-TCA components
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Board management shifts to micro-TCA
Pigeon Point Systems announces a micro-TCA initiative and delivery of initial Pigeon Point micro-TCA components.
Pigeon Point Systems, the leading supplier of shelf and board management solutions for AdvancedTCA and AdvancedMC, announces a micro-TCA initiative and delivery of initial Pigeon Point micro-TCA components The micro-TCA architecture uses industry-standard AdvancedMC modules to implement small form factor, backplane-based systems for computing and communications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The BMR-H8S-MCMC provides a hardware reference design, plus H8S-based firmware, for the MicroTCA Carrier Management Controller (MCMC) and the Pigeon Point micro-Carrier Manager.
The BMR-H8S-micro-ShM combines with BMR-H8S-MCMC to implement the Pigeon Point micro-Shelf Manager, running with the Pigeon Point micro-Carrier Manager on a single H8S.
The BMR-H8S-EMMC provides a hardware reference design, plus H8S-based firmware for an Enhanced Module Management Controller (EMMC).
The micro-TCA specification mandates an MCMC and a Carrier Manager on the MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) module that provides management and fabric resources for each micro-TCA carrier, supporting up to 12 AdvancedMC modules.
EMMCs provide local management for supplementary resources in the carrier, such as cooling resources.
Integrating the Pigeon Point micro-Carrier Manager and micro-Shelf Manager to run on a single H8S processor makes for a very cost-effective MCH management implementation, ideally suited to the single-carrier micro-TCA shelves that are forecast to dominate micro-TCA shipment volumes.
"Artesyn Communications Products, now a part of Emerson Network Power and already a leader in the rapidly developing micro-TCA market, is pleased to be one of the first customers for Pigeon Point's micro-TCA solutions".
"We are delighted to have taken delivery of the first increment of those solutions for micro-TCA, and now use Pigeon Point management components on our entire AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC and micro-TCA product families", said Scott McCowan, President of Artesyn Communications Products.
"Pigeon Point has already provided effective management components and responsive support for our AdvancedTCA and AdvancedMC products and we welcome the broadening of this partnership to include micro-TCA".
Pigeon Point's micro-TCA components will be delivered over the remainder of 2006.
Availability and pricing details will be announced at a later date.
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