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3U Power Supply Marries Wide Input Range, Rugged Package Board-level power supplies provide system designers with complete modular Get Connected with companies and products featured in thissolutions section. for slot-card military systems. www.cotsjournalonline.com/getconnected An example is Aitech Defense Systems’ P230, a rugged, 3U, conduction-cooled, high efficiency power supply that operates over a continuous input voltage range of 18 VDC to 36 VDC. The P230 provides four industry-standard isolated voltage levels of +3.3V, +5V, +12V and -12V at up to 10A, 20A, 9A and 1A respectively, or a combined total power capacity output of up to 150W, with an efficiency of better than 85 percent. This makes the P230 suited for use in a number of small form factor, robust and rugged VME-, CompactPCI- and VPX-based subsystems for high-reliability, embedded computing applications. The DC-to-DC converters are equipped with internal thermal shutdown circuitry to protect them from damage due to potential system overheating. Mechanical and thermal construction includes a protective aluminum housing for mechanical ruggedization, EMI/RFI shielding and thermal conduction of heat to the system enclosure. A chemical conversion coating provides maximum heat transfer and corrosion resistance on thermal interface surfaces. Wedge-locks hold the P230 in place and clamp it to the enclosure's thermal rails for optimum heat transfer, and extractors are included on the P230's top panel for easy removal. Military-rated models operate at temperatures from -55° to +85°C (at the heat sink) when running at 85 percent of maximum rated power, and up to +75°C when operating at full rated power.
Aitech Defense Systems, Chatsworth, CA. (888) 248-3248. [www.rugged.com].
6U VPX Ethernet Switch Offers Full-Wire Speed Switching The military has warmed completely to Ethernet, both as a network technology and as a fabric interconnect. Elma Electronic now offers a highly innovative 6U VPX 28-port Ethernet switch that provides full-wire speed switching of up to 125 Mbits/s, with 24 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) ports and up to four 10 GigE ports. The new fully managed ComEth 4340a switch, available from Elma in North America, supports Layer 2 bridging and Layer 3 IPv4/v6 Unicast and Multicast routing with Layer 2 through Layer 4 advanced traffic classification, filtering and prioritization. It is ideal for applications requiring strict data prioritization and filtering, and advanced traffic classification traffic monitoring required by demanding network applications, as well as delay-sensitive and critical environments. The ComEth 4340a offers flexible port options: four of the 24 GigE ports and two 10 GigE ports come out the front of the switch; 16 ports are accessible via the rear of the switch and are configurable in groups of four as 1000BT or 1000Kx ports. Accessible via a browser, CLI or SNMP, the new ComEth 4340a is easily managed, and a comprehensive built-in test suite provides simple maintenance and added security. Pricing for a ComEth 4340a Ethernet Switch starts at $8,500 in single quantities.
AtomZ530 Rides OpenVPX 3U VPX-REDI Board A lot of momentum has gathered around the newly completed OpenVPX specification. Concurrent Technologies has introduced a low-power 3U VPXREDI SBC, the TR A40/30x RC, designed to comply with the OpenVPX VITA 65 standard. The TR A40/30x RC utilizes the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor Z530 and the highly integrated Intel System Controller Hub US15W both from the Intel embedded roadmap, ensuring longterm availability. The board supports up to 2 Gbytes DDR2-533 soldered SDRAM and a wide variety of I/O interfaces, including a CANbus interface, yet maintains a typical power requirement of less than 10W. The RC-Series TR A40/30x RC is a VPX REDI Type 1 Two Level Maintenance conduction-cooled board with support for Built In Test (BIT). The TR A40/30x RC SBC provides a f lexible PCI Express OpenVPX backplane fabric interface that can be configured for several OpenVPX slot profiles from 8 x1 PCIe ports through to 2 x4 PCIe ports. The VITA 46.0-compliant TR A40/30x is an air-cooled SBC designed for nonrugged environments operating over a temperature range of 0 to 55°C. The pin-compatible TR A40/30x RC is designed as a conduction-cooled SBC for rugged environments and operating over temperatures of -40° to +85°C and at altitudes from -1,000 to 50,000 feet.
Concurrent Technologies, Woburn, MA. (781) 933 5900. [www.gocct.com].
ELMA Electronic, Fremont, CA. (510) 656-3400. [www.bustronic.com].
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