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PP XMC/M02 dual XMC/PMC carrier board provides a flexible solution for designers wishing to add functionality to 6U CompactPCI systems by using XMC or PMC modules. The carrier can accommodate two single or one dual width, PMC or XMC modules conforming to the IEEE 1386 Common Mezzanine Card standard. The PP XMC/M02 can support up to 100 MHz PCI/PCI-X PMC modules and x4 PCI Express XMC modules. A wide range of XMC/PMC modules can be supported, including processor modules (Root-Complex or Monarch), SAS, SATA, LAN, WAN, Graphics and Communications Controllers. The PP XMC/M02 board supports the CompactPCI hot swap mode which enables live insertion and extraction of the carrier allowing modules to be added, replaced or upgraded without interruption to the system operation. Rear I/O signals from each of the XMC/PMC sites are routed via either PMC Pn4 or XMC Pn6 rear I/O connectors to the CompactPCI J3 and J5 connectors. For harsher environments an extended temperature version is supported.

The XPand1301 is a low-cost, flexible, development platform. This platform supports up to eight 0.8 in. or 1.0 in. pitch, air-cooled, CompactPCI modules. It provides 482 W of total simultaneous power, which can be distributed as up to 16 A on 12 V, up to 40 A on 5 V, and up to 20 A on 3.3 V. The XPand1301 can provide up to 20 CFM of air flow per slot.

X-ES platforms, including the XPand1301, are a feature-rich solution for system development. RTMs provide maximum I/O flexibility and rapid system prototyping. Power and reset LEDs indicate system status. The XPand1301 also features a momentary push button for reset, as well as a switch to enable DC power.

The XPand1301 is available for purchase in several rapid-development, standard configurations. Custom configurations of modules, RTMs, and backplanes are also available utilizing X-ES and third party components.

The CB2109 “Heron” is fourth-generation, 6U cPCI SBC module based on GMS’s upgradable CPU technology. It is designed to provide the highest level of workstation performance possible in a fully ruggedized, single-slot cPCI. The Heron is targeted for applications where ultra-high-speed processing power is required with outstanding graphics for upgrading legacy hardware, such as the C269, or for new applications where ultra-high performance, lower-power cPCI is needed. The Heron is the highest performance cPCI SBC in the market with vast I/O and upgradable CPU for extended life cycle.

The Heron supports the Haswell Intel® Core i7 processor with up to four physical CPU cores with Hyper-Threading for total of 8 logical cores, each operating at up to 2.4GHz with the ability to TurboBoost. To harvest this incredible CPU performance, the CPU is coupled with up to 32GB of RAM organized in two banks and supporting error correcting code (ECC). The ECC RAM provides 2-bit error detection and 1-bit error correction and supports up to 1600 mega-transfers per second (MTS) between the CPU and memory.

The I/O subsystem for the Heron is designed to support a wide array of standard and custom I/O functions. The CB2109 standard configuration supports two 10Gigabit Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports with TCP/IP Offloading Engine (TOE) to the rear panel and one Gigabit Ethernet to the front panel, two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports to front panel, two USB 2.0 to the rear, up to 1TB of mSATA with write-protect for OS boot or one 2.5″ SSD/HDD, two DVI-I ports with sync-on-green on the RGB ports with one optional DVI port to rear panel, two COM ports with RS-232 drivers (one to front panel and one to rear), and line in/out audio. The Heron also supports Super I/O for legacy COM ports and PS2 Mouse/KB on rear I/O, and two SAM sites for custom I/O expansion. The first one is shared with the mSATA device, while the second, much larger site can support a variety of expansion I/O such as, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, CANBus, GPS or any custom I/O via 4-Lane PCIExpress with I/O to rear Panel. The I/O connectors in the front and rear panel are placed on the same locations as the C269 for seamless upgradability.