What Is AdvancedTCA?
AdvancedTCA (Advanced
Telecommunications
Computing Architecture) is
an open industry standard,
developed by PICMG 3.0,
to create a new blade
(board) and chassis (shelf)
form factor, tailored to meet
the needs of the rapidly
changing communications
network infrastructure, and
next generation communication
applications. This architecture places
high priority on cost effectiveness
versus attempting
to support a variety of
potential future technologies.
The architecture is optimized
around connectivity
requirements of signaling
and media gateways, while
also providing headroom
for higher performance
computing elements @ a
99.999% availability rate.
What Is AdvancedMC?
The AMC (Advanced
Mezzanine Card) standard,
also developed by PICMG,
defines the base-level
requirements for a wide range
of high-speed mezzanine
cards, optimized for,
but not limited to,
AdvancedTCA and
MicroTCA carrier blades.
What Is MicroTCA?
MicroTCA is complementary
to ATCA, but is optimized
for smaller scale and
more price sensitive applications.
The basic premise
of MicroTCA is to support
mezzanine boards, conform
to the AMC standard, and
connect directly to the backplane.
Tyco Electronics supports AdvancedTCA (ATCA), AdvancedMC (AMC) and MicroTCA (µTCA) PICMG standards with a full complement of products to meet the wide array of applications and markets where these standard configurations will be used. These products include both the fully compliant interconnects that are specified in the PICMG standards, as well as additional connectors that product designers need to customize their solutions for their specific markets.
For the ATCA standard, Tyco Electronics supplies the Zone 1 Z1 Power connector, the Zone 2 Z-PACK HM-Zd high speed connector, and offers many different options for Zone 3 power and high speed signal connectors to midplanes, Rear Transition Modules (RTM), or cable assemblies. Tyco Electronics also provides the guide/keying modules required for front board, backplane, midplane, and RTM card alignment and keying.
For AMC, Tyco Electronics provides both the right angle and vertical card edge connectors that are required for ATCA and µTCA applications.
The µTCA standard uses Tyco Electronics’ MINIPAK HD two-piece connector for power and the Vertical AMC card edge connector for high speed connections to the backplane.
Applications
ATCA Specified Products:
MicroTCA Specified Products:
Tyco Electronic Products used on ATCA, AMC and MicroTCA:
Power Distribution & Management Modules
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