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Avoid heading down the path of ever-higher backplane costs.

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An overview of backplane architecture evolution and today's market, focusing on VITA- and PICMG-based architectures.

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Driving ultra high-speed signals over long traces of FR4 backplanes presents a significant challenge for communications system designers and physical (PHY) transceiver silicon vendors. The 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface (XAUI) signaling standard currently defines a 10 Gbps transmis-sion of up to 20 inches on a FR4 backplane. The devel... (continues)

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In this article Mahamud will show how the true performance characteristics of an AdvancedTCA backplane can be studied through signal integrity engineering, along with several examples of the measurements.... (continues)

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The tide is turning, and business are increasingly ready to migrate circuit-switched voice services to their data networks to realize infrastructure and maintenance savings. One of the most common technologies for transporting voice traffic over IP/Ethernet packet networks is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). In this article Tao says ... (continues)

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This article discusses VME's continuing advancement, and the new technological developments in VME.... (continues)

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This article discusses the design of a 14-slot Dual Star Advanced TCA backplane. It offers design tips, answers many backplane questions, and updates recent developments.... (continues)

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This article describes why PICMG 2.16 has become popular.... (continues)

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This article discusses the return of the VME which is going to be a hot market.... (continues)

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This article will study the design of a 14-slot dual Start AdvancedTCA backplane. The simulation and measurement results will provide some insight on many ATCA backplane elements.... (continues)

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This article discusses the need for higher bandwidth, not only for the chipsets on the cards and the protocols, but also for connectors and the backplane topology. As a result, groups like PICMG and VITA are defining new specifications that support the newest technologies and architectures in high-speed data transfer and bandwidth requirem... (continues)

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This article discusses a backplane developed by Mektron Systems Ltd. and how it meets the goals, bringing together a COTS based CompactPCI implementation, based on a previous design that would accommodate standard boards, while extending the capability of the system with a special high-speed area.... (continues)

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This article describes these architectures, how they work, and how companies can implement them now and in the near future.... (continues)

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This article discusses the many new and existing design challenges and VME backplanes and accessories that make life easy for today's designers. The VMEbus continues to show its temerity and appears to be on a growth path this year.... (continues)

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Modular and scalable backplanes, together with corresponding connector solutions, provide economical and rational rack system configurations for CompactPCI or other industrial bus systems, which are customized for their respective tasks.... (continues)