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<title>The Future is Serial: CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After almost three years and more than 70 articles about the technology that extends CompactPCI&#174;, I would like to finish this series with this last article. Here, the major focus shall not be on the technology as such, but on the reasons why this technology will certainly establish itself not only for tomorrow but also for the next decade. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/future_serial_small.jpg"  alt="Evolution of CompactPCI" title="Evolution of CompactPCI"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>System Slot Boards with the Latest Intel&#174; Architecture for CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO and CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether CompactPCI&#174; Serial or CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO is better suited for a project or whether even the parallel CompactPCI&#174; still meets the requirements, depends among other factors on the data transfer rate and bandwidth required by certain functions in the existing and in the future application. Obviously, the processor performance has to be suitable, too, and be based on current CPU platforms.

For this reason, there already is a system slot board with a quad core i7 processor as well as a solution with Intel&#174; Core&#8482; 2 Duo (SP9300) for CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO (PICMG 2.30). The F21P supports the new Intel&#174; features such as 2nd-generation PCI Express&#174; and 3rd-generation SATA, faster TurboBoost, improved AMT (Active Management Technology) as well as 8 virtual cores via HyperThread, and a faster monolithic graphics core....<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/02f021p_small.jpg"  alt="Quad core Intel i7 on CompactPCI PlusIO SBC F21P" title="Quad core Intel i7 on CompactPCI PlusIO SBC F21P"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Legacy Interface Concept for CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While the increasing speed and bandwidth requirements on the data highway lead to new system solutions like CompactPCI&#174; Serial, many applications will still depend on traditional serial communication via UART and fieldbus interfaces for an extended period of time. At the moment, the appropriate COM ports are still included in the relevant CPU chipsets and are partly led out at the front panels of single-board computers for CompactPCI&#174; Serial (or CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO). Nonetheless, the number of the available UARTs might sometimes be insufficient and fieldbus interfaces are not part of the standard equipment of CPU manufacturers anyway.

The CompactPCI&#174; Serial peripheral board G215 can help to complete such a system. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/02g215-_small.jpg"  alt="CompactPCI Serial peripheral board G215" title="CompactPCI Serial peripheral board G215"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ethernet Switch Functionality for CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ethernet as a communication medium is perhaps the most important element of the CompactPCI&#174; Serial specification beside PCI Express&#174;, SATA and USB. Ethernet can be implemented for low acquisition costs, is well-established, future-oriented, versatile and easy-to-handle. It allows to build up systems without complex switch and bridge technology....<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/02g301-_small.jpg"  alt="CompactPCI-Serial-Ethernet-Switch G301" title="CompactPCI-Serial-Ethernet-Switch G301"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>6U CompactPCI&#174; Parallel/Serial Hybrid Systems</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As was the case for CompactPCI&#174;, the two board sizes 3U and 6U have been defined for CompactPCI&#174; Serial. The 6U board size offers the user attractive options for combining the parallel CompactPCI&#174; bus with the serial CompactPCI&#174; bus with ease in a single system. 

In 3U systems there are also two possibilities for this, either using a double-width CPU inserted into a CompactPCI&#174; system slot and with a mezzanine board inserted into the CompactPCI&#174; Serial system slot, or alternatively, by selecting a CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO system slot that can address both CompactPCI&#174; and CompactPCI&#174; Serial peripheral slots. Here, however, the number of serial slots is limited to four. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/6u_hybrid_small.jpg"  alt="6U hybrid system with board and backplane" title="6U hybrid system with board and backplane"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>6U Backplanes for CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To satisfy the different requirements of systems in the market, CompactPCI&#174; has defined two board heights, 3U and 6U. In CompactPCI&#174; the electrical interface is accommodated in the 3U space. The expansion to 6U was defined in order to offer the user added value. This provides, for example, more than twice the amount of space on the board for the electronics. The front panels of the 6U front boards and of the rear transition modules are also larger and thus allow a far larger number of front and rear I/O interfaces. Additionally, PICMG has defined additional buses in a number of sub-specifications in the 6U space, for example PSB or H.110, which can be used in parallel to the CompactPCI&#174; bus. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/6u_board_small.jpg"  alt="CompactPCIŽ Serial 6U front and rear board" title="CompactPCIŽ Serial 6U front and rear board"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Conductive Cooling with CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Good thermal management is a decisive factor for the reliability of computers. By a simplified formula, a computer&#39;s life is halved by every temperature step of 10°K. In CompactPCI&#174; systems, two basic types of cooling are common. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/CCA-drawing_small.jpg"  alt="CompactPCI Serial board with condct. cooling frame" title="CompactPCI Serial board with condct. cooling frame"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Connector Layout and Coding with CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CompactPCI&#174; Serial, PICMG CPCI-S.0, uses so-called AirMax connectors to link the plug-in card to the backplane. These connectors were chosen for their high pin density, their excellent transmission behavior with high signal frequencies, and for their mechanical robustness. They are completely compatible with the IEEE 1101 standard, which is the mechanical basis of parallel CompactPCI&#174; and, consequently, also CompactPCI&#174; Serial....<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/example_layout_customized_small.jpg"  alt="Example of a customized I/O board connector layout" title="Example of a customized I/O board connector layout"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>High-Performance Graphics on CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A standard PC supports graphics. A modular computer based on the PICMG CompactPCI&#174; Serial specification CPCI-S.0 shall also be able to control displays.
Many &#150; also high-performance &#150; chipsets have a built-in graphics controller today. As a rule, the CPU and graphics controller share the main memory in this architecture. This way, cost-effective and well-fitting solutions can be achieved for low to medium requirements especially in the 2D area. If displays with a very high resolution are to be controlled, the performance both of the CPU and of the graphics unit are limited by the bandwidth of this shared memory. If you want to operate several high-resolution displays at the same time or if you have higher requirements regarding the graphics itself (e.g., 3D rendering), it is advisable to use an external, independent graphics controller with its own video memory. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/Externe_Grafik-Boards_small.jpg"  alt="External graphics boards for high performance" title="External graphics boards for high performance"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Building Clusters with CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If some years ago supercomputers were still built up of systems with a special technology, today mostly standard computer technologies are used. For this, a large number of single comparatively cost-effective servers are combined to form computer clusters.
A computer cluster in most cases consists of a large number of single interconnected computers which are used to process parts of a total task in parallel. Seen from the outside a computer cluster acts as a single computer. The nodes are interconnected using a fast network. Building such server farms considerably increases the computing capacity and availability....<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/cluster_small.jpg"  alt="Clusters with CompactPCI Serial" title="Clusters with CompactPCI Serial"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mixed Doubles: CompactPCI&#174; Serial and CompactPCI&#174; 2.0</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first that comes to mind when thinking of building up hybrid systems is CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO (PICMG 2.30). Here, the system slot CPU supports both the parallel CompactPCI&#174; standard (PICMG 2.0) and the new CompactPCI&#174; Serial standard (PICMG CPCI-S.0). Hybrid backplanes from different manufacturers enable configuration with peripheral slot boards on the left and on the right of the system slot board. Up to 7 parallel and a maximum of 4 serial boards are supported - without a bridge. This way, a cost-effective migration is possible, because the usage of future-oriented and standardized data transfer based on CompactPCI&#174; Serial is guaranteed even when already integrated CompactPCI&#174; components are used.
But what if none of the standard hybrid backplanes is suitable for the new application and/or more than 4 serial peripheral boards are needed and the lot sizes are too small for the development of a customer-specific backplane (in the beginning)?...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/F100_G100_drawing_small.jpg"  alt="Connection of CompactPCI Serial with CompactPCI" title="Connection of CompactPCI Serial with CompactPCI"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Application-Specific Backplane Architectures with CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CompactPCI&#174; Serial supports every interface defined in the specification on every backplane slot, i.e. Ethernet, PCI Express&#174;, SATA and USB (USB 2.0 and USB 3.0). This is very convenient, easy to understand and easy to handle.


Figure 1: Standard CompactPCI&#174; Serial backplane with 9 slots

For certain applications with lot sizes of more than 50 systems, a customer-specific backplane might be recommendable....<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/Backplane_with_extension_small.jpg"  alt="Customer-specific backplane w/ 8 additional slots" title="Customer-specific backplane w/ 8 additional slots"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ethernet Extensions for CompactPCI&#174; Serial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For Ethernet, CompactPCI&#174; Serial CPCI-S.0 is physically based on the 10/100/1000/10GBase-T standards and supports both star and Ethernet Mesh architecture. While star architecture is fully sufficient for standard computers, a full mesh architecture is better suited for multicomputer systems. This way, redundant systems for safety-critical applications can be wired on the backplane via Ethernet. ...<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/02g020-_small.jpg"  alt="Intel Core i7 SBC (G20) with connectors P1-P5" title="Intel Core i7 SBC (G20) with connectors P1-P5"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO and CompactPCI&#174; Serial capture the systems market</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CompactPCI&#174; Serial, combined with the CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO defined as a migration path, are already showing a major market potential.
Users changing to the new technology from CompactPCI&#174; have very diverse reasons for doing so. An application example in freight traffic shows a hybrid backplane with CompactPCI&#174; PlusIO system slot used in conjunction with a conventional CompactPCI&#174; backplane in one system. Here the hybrid backplane serves to accommodate future system upgrades so that faster CompactPCI&#174; Serial boards can later be used....<br /><img src="http://www.men.de//docs-ext/compactpci_plus/images/railway_small.jpg"  alt="One of the areas of application: Railway systems" title="One of the areas of application: Railway systems"  style="display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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