Backplanes get reference designsAs the speed of backplane interconnection systems increases, whether for networking, server or storage applications, connector manufacturers are finding it necessary to ...

The rate of adoption of serial technology in high-end system design has reached critical mass. As shown in Fig 1, this point is supported by the fact that 92% of respondents in a recent EE Times ...

When work started on developing the VPX backplane standard in 2004, members of the VITA Consortium wanted to create something which represented the next revolution in bus boards. The work drew on ...

The U.S. Navy, always seeking paths to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of systems, took another step in that direction with the FlexVPX concept, which was developed at its U.S. Naval ...

Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and FCI today announced the successful demonstration of 25 Gb/s data transmission over an electrical backplane using a Bell Labs-developed new signaling architecture and ...

Copper backplane interconnects, struggling to meet the needs of high-speed backplane communications, are presently stuck at about 10 Gbits/s. In fact, most systems work at just 3 Gbits/s. To go any ...

Industry leaders form high speed backplane initiativeNews from E-InSiteAgilent, Cadence, Gennum, Intel, Marvell, Mindspeed, Texas Instruments, Tyco and Velio Communications have teamed up to form the ...

Since the days when classic open platform technologies, such as VME and CompactPCI, were established in the 1980s and 1990s, the processing power available to system designers has continued to ...

What exactly does a SCSI backplane do? I'm sure that it depends simply on the model, but does a typical backplane just allow you to connect hotswappable SCA SCSI drives to a standard 68 pin SCSI ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...