The PCI bus has come a long way over the past 10 years, from a 32-bit, 33-MHz bus that replaced the EISA bus, to today's 64-bit, 266-MHz bus (with 533-MHz speeds predicted for the near future). You ...

An industrial architecture developed by PICMG that supports the ISA and PCI buses. The backplane contains ISA and PCI slots so that existing ISA and PCI cards can be used. The CPU card has both ISA ...

While there are many ways to connect components in embedded systems, the most prominent are the high speed serial standards of Ethernet, PCI Express, and RapidIO. All of these standards leverage ...

Designed for OEM embedded control and test-and-measurement applications, Elma Bustronic’s 3U 17-slot backplane unites PCI Express (PCIe) with the PXI architecture. It meets the PXI Express Hardware ...

Backplanes specialist Elma Electronic now offers a CompactPCI PlusIO Backplane compliant to the latest PICMG 2.30 specifications. The first in the series is an 8slot version in a 3U height. PICMG 2.30 ...

Ethernet remains the network of choice, but now there are alternatives to running it on the backplane. PLX Technology looks to tunnel Ethernet via PCI Express (PCIe), allowing both protocols to run ...

I've been asked to look into what it takes to get a relatively modern system with 8 usable ISA slots, onboard sound/video and possibly NIC, and a decent CPU. From what I've been able to determine, the ...

A new 3U OpenVPX PCI Express and Ethernet hybrid switch has been designed to provide 10 times the I/O bandwidth of current systems, paving the way for a new generation of high performance embedded ...

When FusionIO started shipping PCIe SSDs a decade ago, PCIe was confined to backplanes, and the inability to share FIO's high-performance SSD was a major customer complaint. Times have changed. Today, ...

The CompactPCI PlusIO backplane complies with the latest PICMG 2.30 specifications. PICMG 2.30 expands the backplane with serial point-to-point connections for data transfer (PCIe, SATA, USB, Ethernet ...

RapidIO, PCIe, and Ethernet each offer unique benefits. We explain how each technology works, and examine its strengths and weaknesses. We also show why RapidIO is often the best choice for embedded ...