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The Elma Bustronic CompactPCI backplane series is designed to be fully compliant with PICMG standards. The 32-bit cPCI line offers hundreds of I/O pins across the backplane that on the 64-bit version are defined and therefore unavailable. We have provided all the standard features required for full compatibility, including all pin connections for bussed signal lines and all defined power and ground pins connected to their respective planes. User defined VI/O is standard.
All of Bustronic’s standard CPCI backplanes conform to the PICMG basic specification 2.0 R2.1 and Hot Swap specification 2.1 R1.0. They are designed to maximize performance, minimize noise, and give the customer the most reliable, cost-effective products possible. To achieve superior performance, we construct the board in eight layers-three signal layers, five power ground planes. We incorporate a full stripline design, generously distributed decoupling capacitors, and 2 oz. power and ground planes. Our standard design with two 2oz. copper ground planes fully shield the backplane, minimize EMI/RFI emissions susceptibility, minimize crosstalk, and maximize power distribution.
Two 2 oz. copper voltage planes allow us to maximize power distribution while they act as virtual ground planes for the signals in order to minimize noise and crosstalk. There is also a full VI/O plane. We use stripline construction to assure the highest possible performance. By exclusively utilizing stripline construction, we eliminate a significant source of EMI/RFI radiation and give all the signals similar characteristic impedances, virtually identical propagation delays, and minimal signal skew. All these items allow for significantly higher data transfer rates, as signal skew factors into the data transfer rate calculations four times.

FEATURES:
– Conforms to PICMG basic specification 2.0 R3.0
– Conforms to PICMG Hot Swap specification 2.1 R1.0
– 32-bit design
– 8-layer controlled impedance stripline design
– Virtually zero crosstalk
– Logical slot #1 (system controller) is right or left justified
– Comes in EasyCable and Low Profile versions

The T2-6U-cPCI (T26U) is a 6U CompactPCI board featuring eight ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC DSPs from Analog Devices. To take full advantage of the high performance TigerSHARC, the T26U implements BittWare’s ATLANTiS, which combines robust TigerSHARC processing with the versatile Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA to offer ultra high performance and unprecedented I/O bandwidth.

Ideal for high-performance applications, such as radar and sonar, the T26U combines the ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARCs and FPGAs with:

* High-bandwidth, low-latency off-board I/O, reconfigurable for nearly any application
* High-speed interprocessor communications to facilitate scalability
* SharcFIN bridge for integrating DSPs with PCI bus and peripherals
* Comprehensive software for ease-of-use

The board also provides two large on-board banks of SDRAM, flash memory for hostless boot, and two PMC sites for adding additional processors and I/O capabilities.

BittWare’s GT-3U-cPCI (GT3U) is a ruggedized 3U CompactPCI board that has been designed for demanding multi-processor based applications requiring complete flexibility and adaptability. The GT3U features a large Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, one cluster of four ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors from Analog Devices, a front panel interface supplying four channels of high-speed SerDes tranceivers, and a back panel interface providing RS232/RS422 and 10/100 ethernet. Simultaneous on-board and off-board data transfers can be achieved at a rate of 2 GB/s via BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork implemented in the Stratix II GX FPGA. The board also provides a large amount of on-board memory including 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM or 64 MB of QDR SDRAM, as well as 64 MB of flash memory for booting the FPGA and DSPs.