Kontron launches High-Speed CompactPCI Initiative for 600Gbit/s interconnect
CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) is aimed at 3U form factors with PCIe, GbE, USB and SATA over a backplane while CompactPCI Serial Mesh (based on PICMG 2.20) for 6U form factors with 10GbE over a backplane. This initiative gives the CompactPCI bus architecture a next generation product enhancement providing CompactPCI applications with the performance boost from today’s 40 to 50Gbit/s rates and extending the investment security of CompactPCI technology for another decade.
The scope of applications using 3U CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0) is extremely broad and varied. It ranges from multi-processor systems for the computation of complex imaging processes to high-performance video or radar data recording through flexible SATA/RAID architectures, and from high bandwidth wireless communication with parallel working radio modules WLAN, UMTS, LTE right up to powerful multi-monitor systems in control rooms.
Sample applications for the new modular CompactPCI Serial Mesh (based on PICMG 2.20) systems are in high availability telecommunications and datacommunications applications for carriers and also with government and security companies. Applications include secure wireless systems, radar and sonar applications, and complex computational algorithms such as imaging processing. Now, even with smaller space requirements, existing system installations are provided with a significant increase in data throughput when new long-term generation systems are being developed which, in the future, could be scaled up to 40 GbE.
"CompactPCI Serial is a logical enhancement to the very successful and worldwide-accepted CompactPCI specifications. It enables a new generation of high-performance installations requiring massive bandwidth, and also provides a way to boost the performance of any existing CompactPCI deployments in a wide range of industries," explains Norbert Hauser, Executive Vice President Marketing at Kontron. "CompactPCI Serial allows data transmission at a rate of several gigabytes per second. By way of comparison, the highest possible data throughput via a parallel 32-bit/66 MHz PCI interface in CompactPCI is 0.264 GB/s. That means that with CompactPCI Serial, completely new system configurations become possible, and with 6U CompactPCI Serial Mesh, 10 Gigabit Ethernet means a huge performance increase too."
CompactPCI Serial (CPCI-S.0)
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