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VITA 46.0
VPX Core
0.25
draft
VITA 46.1
VMEbus Signal Mapping for VITA 46
0.10
draft
VITA 46.2
PCI on VITA 46
VITA 46.3
Serial RapidIO on VITA 46
0.4
draft
VITA 46.4
PCI Express and ASI on VITA 46
0.2
draft
VITA 46.5
HyperTransport on VITA 46
0.1
inactive
VITA 46.6
Gbit Ethernet on VITA 46
planned
VITA 46.7
10Gbit Ethernet on VITA 46
planned
VITA 46.8
InfiniBand on VITA 46
inactive
VITA 46.9
PMC/XMC/GbE to 3U/6U VITA 46 Pin Mapping
0.4
draft
VITA 46.10
Rear Transition Module for VITA 46
0.03
draft
VITA 46.20
VPX Switch Slot Definition
Table 1
Mass Storage Modules for VMEbus and CompactPCI速
inactive
planned
List of VITA 46 standards. Of the 12 VPX standards, seven can be considered general transport fabrics, three utility or I/O fabrics and two general or core mechanical standards.
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or call Toll-Free: 800-808-7837 To standardize the implementation of all these various fabRed Rock Technologies, Inc. 480-483-3777 rics as well as to define how various I/O fabrics are routed out the backplane and the mechanics of rear transition modules, many subsidiary standards have been defined. Table 1 lists all these separate documents. One type of backplane hybrid that is generally less familiar edrock_04.indd 1 2/2/07 1:21:52 PM than those considered above is power flexibility. In a system there may be a mix of cards that have different power requirements. For example, there may be Telco cards that use 48V and other cards that use a vehicular supply of 24V. While topology hybrid design demands the user to consider how the application will use the cards and what the data requirements will be, the Mini-ITX systems & solutions for embedded power problem is simpler in that the challenge is identifying applications, industrial & mobile computing. how much power each board requires. But for the backplane Mini-ITX Mainboards vendor, routing and labeling power connections can be just as with VIA, Intel, or AMD processors. complex as the challenge of building a topology hybrid or legx86 platform acy hybrid backplane. small form factor design VPX cards are now starting to emerge from vendors such as Linux and Windows XP Curtiss-Wright, Micro Memory, GE Fanuc/Radstone and Mercompatible cury. While in the past standard backplanes were available before fully customizable systems the cards were developed; today, because of all the flexibility that VPX brings in terms of protocols and topologies, backplane vendors are waiting to see what board connectivity board vendors Fanless Mini-ITX Systems are going to offer, and some board vendors are waiting to see Utilizing heat pipe technology, these completely fanless what preferences are going to be popular with customers. ReMini-ITX systems offer gardless of the final system requirements, it is likely that laboradurability, reliability, and tory development will take place on standard configurations such power-efficiency for a as the 5-slot mesh backplane example found in chapter 7 of the wide range of embedded VITA 46.0 document. applications in harsh, remote environments.
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