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The ACPS3310 is a 3U CompactPCI Serial carrier card for Acromag’s AcroPack mezzanine modules. Two isolated I/O expansion slots interface AcroPack or mini PCIe modules to the PCIe bus. All connections to field signals are made through front panel connectors on the carrier board which passes them to the individual AcroPack modules.

• Front I/O access
• Two isolated I/O expansion slots (AcroPack® or mPCIe)
• PCI Express Version 2.1 complaint carrier

Select from 25+ AcroPack modules to install any combination of analog I/O, digital I/O, serial I/O, communication, and FPGA processor functions. This modular approach allows the user to create a board which is customized to the application, thus saving slots and reducing costs.

The AcroPack product line updates our popular Industry Pack I/O modules with a PCIe interface format. This tech-refresh design offers a compact, low-cost I/O solution with the same functionality and memory map of the original Industry Pack mezzanine modules. New modules offer additional capabilities such as FPGA computing, Ethernet, CAN bus, and avionics interfaces.

These carriers are ideal for high-performance systems in aerospace, defense, transportation, oil/gas, test/measurement, manufacturing, and scientific research applications. End-users and system integrators benefit from a broad range of I/O functions in a small form factor.

he SK3-MEDLEY is a peripheral slot board for PICMG® CompactPCI® Serial systems and acts as carrier card for an XMC-style mezzanine module. XMC modules are specified by ANSI/VITA 42/61, as an advanced replacement for PMC modules. While using a similar form factor as PMC cards, XMC modules are provided with a PCI Express® interface. The SK3-MEDLEY is equipped with a bidirectional 8-lane PCI Express® Gen3 redriver, for optimum 8GT/s high speed signal integrity, and should be installed into a fat pipe peripheral slot of a CompactPCI® Serial backplane. The SK3-MEDLEY can be used with 74x139mm2 shortened length XMC mezzanine cards only (for 149mm length consider the SK2-SESSION).

The SK3-MEDLEY requires at least a single PCI Express® lane from the backplane, passed over across the connector P1 to a PCIe redriver circuit. Up to eight PCI Express® lanes are supported, when the SK3-MEDLEY is installed into a CompactPCI® Serial fat pipe peripheral slot (P1/P2 backplane connectors in use). With a total link bandwidth of 64Gbps, even very demanding applications can be realized, such as a 10/40GBps Ethernet or USB 3.1 XMC mezzanine module. The on-board 8-lane bidirectional redriver is suitable up to 8.0Gbps (PCIe 3.0) data transfer rate per lane, and ensures optimum signal integrity (wider opening with respect to the eye diagrams). The XMC module connector J15 is directly tied to the redriver circuit. In addition, a zero delay PCIe Gen3 clock buffer is provided on-board. Due to space restrictions on the SK3-MEDLEY imposed by the backplane connector P2, only 139mm length XMC mezzanine modules can be populated.

he SK1-CHORD is a peripheral slot board for PICMG® CompactPCI® Serial systems and acts as carrier card for a PMC-style mezzanine module. PMC modules are are provided with a legacy PCI® interface and are widely in use for industrial and scientific applications. The SK1-CHORD supports the most common 32-bit 33/66MHz PMC modules. The SK1-CHORD is equipped with a PCI Express® to PCI® bridge for conversion of data from the CompactPCI® Serial backplane, to the on-board PCI® parallel bus. The PMC module fits on the PMC connectors J11/J12 at 10mm height. The SK1-CHORD can be installed into any peripheral slot of a CompactPCI® Serial backplane.

The SK1-CHORD requires only a single PCI Express® lane from the backplane, passed over across the connector P1 to the on-board PCIe to PCI® bridge. The local PCI® interface is 32bit wide, hence J11 and J12 are provided as PMC mezzanine connectors. PMC modules can be operated at either 66MHz or 33MHz clock rate.