May 2008 –
Concurrent Technologies announces a MicroTCA™ System
designed to aid the bench development of MicroTCA™ applications. The SY
AMC/205 is a 5-slot MicroTCA free-standing cube which supports up to 5
AdvancedMC™ (AMC) modules. To focus
the development process the SY AMC/205 comes pre-loaded with a dual-core
processor AMC, a graphics and storage-disk AMC, and a MicroTCA Carrier
Hub (MCH) which leaves 3 AMC slots available for system development.
Typical applications for MicroTCA systems are telecommunications,
security, defense, image-processing, process-control and medical
markets.
The SY AMC/205, a free-standing MicroTCA development
system, providing 3 full-height AMC slots (1 double-width and 2
single-width) for OEM AMC modules. The system supports the PICMG®
MicroTCA and PICMG AMC.0 specifications.
The pre-loaded boards supplied by Concurrent Technologies support
IPMI 1.5 (AMC.0) and are fitted as follows:
- AM 110/102 – 2.16GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo AMC SBC fitted with 4 Gbytes
of SDRAM
- AM 400/101 – CRT and DFP graphics adaptor including 2.5” SATA hard
disk drive
- MT MCH/001 – MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) with a 6-port Gigabit Ethernet
switch and a 6 x4-link PCI Express® switch
The SY AMC/205 Development System is supplied with a
320W universal power supply and a plug-removable cooling fan cassette.
The MCH supports on-board Carrier Manager software accessible via a
remote web browser. Since the AM 110/102 supports many of today’s
leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® XP, Windows® XP
Embedded, Windows® 2000 and QNX® the SY AMC/205 is suitable for a wide
range of user configured applications.
The SY AMC/205 Development System uses standard Concurrent
Technologies products allowing easy progression from development to
implementation. Concurrent Technologies provides a range of AMC modules
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