Through its suite of products,
Backplane connects software to anyone or anything, anywhere.
Early
backplane versions only needed one data line between communication partners, but due to the ever-expanding data volumes exchanged between boards, this design is no longer sufficient.
The Xilinx demonstration, by virtue of giving ATCA a performance boost, clearly shows that designers today can use the standards-based modular platform to build
backplanes that are on par with custom
backplane performance.
Since drives at quarter wavelengths create a notch filter periodic structure at 160MHz, some
backplanes will need to have the spacing adjusted.
With the inherent benefit of seeding the community with the social network effects of Lady Gaga's #LittleMonsters, we believe
Backplane is positioned for rapid scale," said co-founder of
Backplane and Atom Factory CEO Troy Carter.
Engineers also should know whether they need access to I/O signals on the rear side of the
backplane, explained Rodriguez.
In addition to providing high performance silicon, software, IP, and free reference designs for serial
backplane design, the Xilinx eSP web portal is a proven resource for engineers with over seven million visits since its introduction.
This intellectual property is at the core of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series
backplane, which has been tested to support up to four 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports per slot.
2 Gbit/s transceiver providing high speed serial I/O for both
backplanes and line side network interfaces.
The company has also announced a 5-slot VXS
backplane Single Star (with one hub slot).
5 Gb/sec (1X) ports from the
backplane to four 10 Gb/sec (4X) uplink ports on the front of the chassis.
Synchronous serial
backplane switch fabric/transceiver chipsets (Fig 1) maintain faster switching and configuration speeds and are highly scalable as compared to switch ICs that employ shared memory, asynchronous, or parallel switch fabrics.
