As bandwidth needs increase, backplane design shifts to point-to-point star topologies using narrow, high-speed links. Simulation of design before routing and layout is critical, but it can be ...

Switched serial interconnects have placed substantial performance demands on backplane design. The open-specification organizations VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA) and PCI Industrial ...

If you're like a lot of design engineers, you want to design a high-performance communications system that's scalable, supports "five-nines" high availability (HA), and is low in cost—and you need to ...

Force10 Networks has been awarded a patent for its advancements in developing the high capacity backplane that powers its TeraScale E-Series. The TeraScale E-Series can process 1 billion packets per ...

Giving backplane designers a leg up, the DesignLink web portal offers a custom suite of proprietary engineering design tools and technical information specific to high-speed backplane design. The site ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

The CompactPCI PlusIO backplane complies with the latest PICMG 2.30 specifications. PICMG 2.30 expands the backplane with serial point-to-point connections for data transfer (PCIe, SATA, USB, Ethernet ...

Although still at the research stage, the IBP Service and Client API have been written, and working software produced, illustrating along the way some of the practicalities of producing such a system.

A new two-slot test backplane for VPX board developers and integrators is designed to the latest VITA-46 specifications. A new two-slot test backplane for VPX board developers and integrators is ...

The 100 G backplane features 14 slots, dual-dual star topology and radial or bused IPMB prepared for two Schroff shelf managers with Pigeon Point ShMM 700. It uses specially developed ZD connectors ...