Boards/Backplanes
AdvancedTCA carrier board holds four AMCs
VadaTech has announced an AdvancedTCA (ATCA) carrier board that holds four Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs). Designated the ATC133, this 10GbE Carrier features a 10G managed Layer 2 switch with a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA and a Crossbar Switch (CBS) which allows any combination of backplane ports to be routed to the FPGA.
The on-board PowerPC runs Linux operating system, managing the switch, loading the FPGA image, and the CBS. The carrier also routes up to 280W to the four full-size single or two double AMC modules. There are dual XAUI ports and dual GbE ports to each AMC slot.