Dual carrier brings PMCs to VME

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 18, 2007

6U form factor PMC carrier enables communication between a VME chassis and up to two industry standard (IEEE1386.1) PMC modules.

New from Varisys, the VTM2 is an industry standard 6U form factor dual PMC carrier.

The VTM2 enables communication between a VME chassis and up to two industry standard (IEEE1386.1) PMC modules.

The VTM2 can be deployed in a wide range of applications - for example telecommunications, medical imaging and industrial automation.

PMCs deliver the flexibility of PCI addon cards to embedded systems designers, in a more rugged and compact form factor.

PMCs are available from Varisys as well as many other third party vendors and offer a variety of I/O, FPGA, general purpose processing and DSP functions.

The VTM2 uses a Tundra Tsi148 to connect the VMEbus to the onboard PCI bus supporting the latest protocols, including 2eSST and 2eVME transfers, as well as VME64 extensions.

Legacy protocol support ensures interoperability with older systems and devices.

The onboard PCI bus connects the Tsi148 to the two PMC sites, and supports a full range of operating modes from regular 32 bit PCI at 33MHz right up to 64bit PCI/X at 100MHz.

Inter-PMC-site datacommunications and routing of user I/O to P0 are both options that can be specified at the time of ordering.