Backplane range supports legacy technology
A Portwell Technology product story
Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jul 14, 2008
There are still a huge number of legacy systems in the field with standard or custom PCI and PCI-X add-on devices.
American Portwell Technology has extended its family of industrial PICMG 1.3 backplanes for PICMG 1.3 system host boards (SHB).
The company now provides 15 PCIe-compatible devices in a choice of server-centric (from six to 19 slots) and graphic-centric (from five to 13 slots) models.
The expanded family includesmodels for node chassis and rackmount chassis up to 4U, PCI-X buses that support up to 16 PCI-X expansion slots, PCIe x16, PCIe x8, PCIe x4 and PCIe x1 combinations, USB and SATA ports and support for legacy PCI slots.
The PICMG 1.3 industrial backplane range suits applications in medical systems, semiconductor wafer inspection, system automation, transportation security administration (TSA) X-ray inspection and telecommunications.
"We developed and have now extended our PBPE family of industrial PICMG 1.3 backplanes so we can help today's systems engineers make better headway in resolving the issues that surround add-on device expansion and how to approach it effectively", says Jack Lam, American Portwell Technology's Senior Product Marketing Manager.
"It is an established fact that the ongoing demand for higher speed technology has pushed the envelope for add-on device expansion".
"Subsequently, we have seen the migration from parallel buses such as ISA, PCI and PCI-X to the serial bus architecture of PCI-Express (PCIe) and the growing use of PICMG 1.3 SHBs and backplanes".
"Simply changing slots to the higher speed PCIe will not solve all the problems".
"There are still a huge number of legacy systems in the field with standard or custom PCI and PCI-X add-on devices".
"And the issue is further complicated by the fact that PICMG 1.3 has two main target applications: server-centric (PCIe x8, x4 and x1) and graphic-centric (PCIe x16 and x1).
"There is no simple interconnect between them".
"Since there is no single solution that can address all of these issues, Portwell decided that the best way we can help system engineers and program managers is to provide a growing selection of backplanes from which they can choose".
"This is the plan for our expanding PBPE product line" Lam said.
"Portwell's PBPE family not only supports the current need for speed, but it also addresses the other problem that faces systems engineers and program managers - the ability to support legacy technology".
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