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"The MicroTCA specifications denoted mTCA.x is a new series of PICMG specifications, that takes the extensive knowledge and practices developed with AdvancedTCA and AdvancedMC and applies them to the area of smaller form factor plug-in systems." [1]



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Technology on center stage: VPX, MicroTCA and ... VME64x?

By VME and Critical Systems magazine
An interview with Elma Electronic president and founder Fred Ruegg, who comments on everything from Elma's recent switch from its VITA-only stance to its new role on OpenVPX’s Steering Committee. Meanwhile, Ruegg is an aficionado of MicroTCA, but also threw us the VME64x “curveball.”

Ruggedized MicroTCA gears up for deployment

By Bob Sullivan (Hybricon) and James Doyle (Emerson Network Power)
While PICMG continues to develop its ruggedized MicroTCA standards, the small form factor MicroTCA continues to make inroads amongst today's applications requiring net-centric performance and lower cost.

PCI Express protocol primer

By Navraj Nandra (Synopsys, Inc.)
Networking, storage, industrial, and consumer electronics applications are avoiding slowest link limitations by moving to switched serial architectures.

MicroTCA at the Summit, AdvancedTCA beyond the CO

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
The simple life. How AdvancedTCA plans to embrace it for data center applications.

Developers look to MicroTCA for new opportunities

By Eric Heikkila (VDC), Tony Romero (Performance Technologies) and Will Smith (Performance Technologies)
MicroTCA's benefits resonate with telecommunications and mil/aero.

Matchmaking: Data fabrics and applications in MicroTCA

By Vollrath Dirksen (N.A.T. GmbH)
MicroTCA opens the possibility of extending the life of older systems.

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MicroTCA's role expands in modern battlefields

By David Pursley (Kontron)
MicroTCA – with its ruggedness and small form factor, high availability, and multicore support – is proving itself a viable contender against CompactPCI, VME, and even the up-and-coming VPX.

Cooling 400 W boards in AdvancedTCA (and other platforms)

By David Wright (Advanced Platforms)
As they say about age, 400 W is just a number. This thermal management tutorial series will formalize much of the wide amount of existing expertise in convection cooling in the belief that even 400 W should not be considered a ceiling.

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White Paper: Platform Economics: How to Chart a Cost-Effective Course

By Performance Technologies (Performance Technologies)
These economic times require us to look at projects more holistically, more methodically and to consider all the TCO costs, both obvious and hidden. With more “out-of-the-box” thinking, there are ways to navigate through the profitability vs. performance dilemmas to create great new products.

White Paper: MicroTCA - New Advances Provide New Opportunities for Equipment Developers

By Performance Technologies (Performance Technologies)
New Advances Provide New Opportunities for Equipment Developers

What to expect for ruggedized MicroTCA enclosure platforms

By Justin Moll (Elma Electronic) and Eike Waltz (Elma Electronic)
MicroTCA has a role to play in both military and telco applications, and that means a one-size-fits-all cooling solution won't be the answer.

I/O choices for MicroTCA

By Uwe Tews (TEWS Technologies) and Peter Zimmermann (TEWS Technologies)
Uwe and Peter address cost containment, development time, and mezzanine characteristics for developers looking to make the most successful MicroTCA I/O decisions.

Virtualization software addresses new demand for MicroTCA in industrial applications

By Didier Irlande (VirtualLogix)
Industrial, medical, and other applications can employ virtualization to take advantage of MicroTCA systems and migrate software to new multicore architectures such as the Intel Core Microarchitecture.

Rugged MicroTCA is changing

By Stuart Jamieson (Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing)
I n order to address diverse markets, the MicroTCA the air-cooled specification must take on extra functionality

Welcome to the AdvancedTCA Summit

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
PICMG is tackling the challenge of the latest IEEE standards for 10 GbE and defining ruggedized MicroTCA.

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AdvancedTCA: Living large

By Joe Pavlat (OSP)
AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, and AdvancedMCs are coming into their own.

Take part in the Net-centric future

By Terry Morgan (Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium)
(EoIP) is the essential first step toward achieving emergency responder interoperability.

White Paper: Mobile Video Services: Ready for Prime Time

By Ilan Weizman (Surf Communication Solutions, Inc.)
In this paper, we will first examine the market drivers and competing service delivery technologies for mobile video. We will then review several leading mobile video services, and present selected video-processing extensions for mobile video delivery platforms. Finally, we will conclude by summarizing the benefits of mobile video for telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and systems integrators (SIs) on the one hand, and for mobile network operators (MNOs) and value-added service providers (VASPs) on the other.

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Real-world applications for Ruggedized MicroTCA are here

By Robert Sullivan (Hybricon) and Clayton Tucker (Emerson Network Power)
The time has arrived. MicroTCA is emerging as a capable architecture, with applications spanning commercial, industrial, medical, telecommunications, and federal markets.

CP-TA addresses AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA interoperability

By Nirlay Kundu (Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing)
Presenting the argument that a focus by TEMs on niche application areas, leaving the basic system building activities to xTCA building block providers, makes sense.

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White Paper: Leveraging the Communications Server Ecosystem

By Hermann Berg (Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing) and Larry Terry (Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing)
How network equipment providers can effectively take advantage of investments made by the ATCA and MicroTCA communications server ecosystem

Isn't MicroTCA enterprising?

By Nigel Forrester (Emerson)
The enterprise market is showing itself to be a fitting one for MicroTCA.

The MicroTCA ecosystem is maturing

By Mike Franco (MicroBlade)
The dependability of a multi-sourced MicroTCA solution, along with diffusion into lateral markets and other dimensions of the ecosystem are examined.

The little box that can

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
Recent strides in the areas of cost reduction, plus the growing demand for high availability systems, have sped up MicroTCA’s rate of adoption.

MicroTCA extends to telecom and beyond

By Nigel Forrester (Emerson Network Power) and Paul Virgo (Emerson Network Power)
MicroTCA has served modern telecom apps well, and now the form factor is entering newer territory – the defense domain – and finding success therein.

Why get into this business?

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
Welcome to the 2008 CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems Resource Guide

10 Gbps RapidIO in MicroTCA for wireless networking

By Devashish Paul (Tundra Semiconductor)
Developing wireless basestations using MicroTCA and RapidIO offers a number of advantages.

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Optimizing multicore SFFs for rugged military environments

By Christine Van De Graaf (Kontron) and David Pursley (Kontron)
Multicore technologies, including hyper-threading, virtualization and multi-threading, are helping Small Form Factors (SFFs) meet the tough requirements of modern military applications.

MicroTCA power module input connectors

By Juergen Hahn-Barth (CONEC Corporation)
High-precision connector experience comes into play in designing an effective interface for MicroTCA modules.

AdvancedTCA Summit 2007

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
MicroTCA interest is increasing as the AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI ecosystem continues to grow.

Interview with NMS Communications' Brough Turner

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
IPTV, MicroTCA's ability to achieve cost effectiveness, regional differences in AdvancedTCA growth, mobile video, and several other telecommunications issues from the perspective of one on the industry's most respected voices.

Navigating design challenges for smaller MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA Systems

By Justin Moll (Elma Electronic)
Avoid having challenges, including cooling within a smaller space, become obstacles when developing smaller-sized systems.

Suddenly signal: AdvancedMC carries signaling gateway

By Stuart Jamieson (Emerson Network Power) and Gareth Smith ()
Developers of standalone signaling gateways are finding that MicroTCA offers an infrastructure that lends itself to reliability and scalability.

MicroTCA power modules

By Per-Johan Wiberg (Ericsson Power Modules)
With MicroTCA it's possible to create complete power system redundancy and high rack-level system availability all within a small enclosure.

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Pre-validated platforms: The route to fast adoption of MicroTCA

By Herbert Erd (GE Fanuc Embedded Systems)
Pre-validated MicroTCA platforms enable users to sink their teeth into application development earlier in the game.

MicroTCA extends to telecom and beyond

By Nigel Forrester (Motorola) and Paul Virgo (Motorola)
Among many applications MicroTCA is poised to address the military's need for rapid exchange of intelligence (voice, video, telemetry, and other data) via common (or software translatable) formats and protocols, between cooperating agency elements.

MicroTCA backplanes pack extensive functionality into a small space

By Christian Ganninger (Schroff GmbH)
The number of MicroTCA backplane configurations has turned out to be reasonable, rather than the plethora of different flavors once expected, and can serve to launch customer-specific applications.

Rugged MicroTCA SIG joins forces with PICMG Rugged MicroTCA Subcommittee

By Bob Sullivan (Hybricon) and Bob Tufford (Motorola Embedded Communications)
An outline of concepts and draft specifications for air-cooled and conduction-cooled MicroTCA applications.

"Training" MicroTCA for new uses

By Hermann Strass, European Representative (European Representative)
This month: New European applications; Getting to industrial applications faster; European news

Technology trends and ruggedized MicroTCA

By Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director)
It is likely that ruggedized MicroTCA’s target market requirements will be beyond the scope of a single specification. It is also very possible that the committee will develop a series of distinct but interrelated specifications.

 

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Vendors and Products
 

Molex, Inc. TCA Backplane
Hybricon Corp. TCA Chassis
XTech Reinforced MicroTCA Faceplates
Hybricon Corp. Rugged MicroTCA Enclosures
Molex, Inc. TCA Devt Chassis
Concurrent Technologies, Inc. SY AMC/205
ELMA Electronic MicroTCA 7U Cube Development System
Molex, Inc. MicroTCA Connector
VadaTech Inc. UTC001
Extreme Engineering Solutions XPedite6244
Rittal Corporation MicroTCA system
Lineage Power MPS Series
HARTING ATCA & MicroTCA
Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing MicroTCA
Positronic Industries QB Series
FCI MicroTCA (?TCA) vertical card-edge connectors
Kontron MicroTCA Systems
Schroff a Brand of Pentair Electronic Packaging MicroTCA 6U
TYCO Electronics MicroTCA Backplane Connector
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