... in Practice - Streamlined to various market requirements

Following the success of CompactPCI there is now a further PICMG standard that has already established itself on the market – Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC). In contrast to the parallel bus systems of VME and CPCI, AdvancedMC is based on serial interfaces and supports different transport systems such as, for example, PCI-Express, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Serial Rapid I/O and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)/SATA (Serial ATA).

This seminar intends to show how by using the MicroTCA standard (Micro Telecom Computing Architecture) it is possible to build systems based on AMCs that can be used in and especially beyond the telecommunication industry. AMCs offer everything needed for creating industrial multi-processor systems and have many options of driving down the system costs.

Presentations of key manufacturers cover all aspects of MicroTCA systems designed from hardware, subsystems, software, tools and systems validation. The presentations include practical guidelines, possibilities to design cost optimised systems and show areas of application, migration paths and technical alternatives. To practically show what will be explained during the presentations, the partners will build up and show a running demo.

These seminars are intended for users, who apply MicroTCA systems, plan to implement systems or plan to migrate from VME, CompactPCI, industry PC and proprietary systems to MicroTCA. Take the chance to receive well prepared expert know-how and find out that MicroTCA turns out to be a perfect alternative to conventional systems modular in management functionality and price.

We are pleased to invite you to our MicroTCA seminars:

24 June 2008 - Tel Aviv, Israel

Agenda:

08:30 - 09:30 hrs	Registration and coffee
09:30 - 10:00 hrs	Intel Multicore Technologies for Embedded Applications Intel offers a broad spectrum of embedded silicon, technologies, components and tools that enable users to meet stringent platform requirements and competitive development schedules. In addition to providing a comprehensive product line, Intel works closely with a wide network of ecosystem partners and industry organizations to drive the adoption of open standards. Platforms based on Intel® architecture-based processors and chipsets maximize performance per system watt within the power and space constraints of embedded and communications applications.
10:00 - 10:30 hrs	Schroff MicroTCA in Practice - Simplified System-, Backplane- and Management concepts Nearly 2 years after the release of the MicroTCA.0 R1.0 specification a complete Ecosystem of MicroTCA components and systems have been established. MicroTCA shows its benefits by utilizing future proof data transport mechanisms, powerful management architecture and a high degree of flexibility in the small form factor of the AdvancedMC Modules. Even if the management functionality of a MicroTCA shelf is a powerful tool for remote control, redundancy handling, event logging, hot swap and e-keying, outside the telecom world it is often oversized. This presentation shows simplified system concepts, optimized for the use outside the telecom market. In addition the presentation takes a look on the management structure of MicroTCA and shows ways how to reduce the cooling and power management while keeping important functionalities such as hot swap or temperature control. Furthermore new backplane topologies will be presented which even allow to cut down the fat pipe hub.
10:30 - 11:00 hrs	Coffee Break + Tabletop Show
11:00 - 11:30 hrs	Kontron MicroTCA in Practice – Options for Systems Design Originating in telecommunications, the AdvancedMC and MicroTCA standards represent a stable and future proof basis for systems. However, the areas of application reach well beyond telecommunications into industrial automation and medical applications. Among the applications are motion control, image processing and high-end data processing, which need multi-processor systems and benefit from the flexibility of the concept. For such applications, many requirements from telecommunications concerning redundancy and specific implementations such as the MicroTCA Power Modules and Cooling units are not needed. Also, the concept of the MCH can be drastically simplified, while keeping management and the use of standard AMCs. The presentation shows how to design cost optimized MicroTCA systems and shows some sample designs and systems for specific applications. Among the topics shown are the use of PCIe and storage, as well as the use of fabric interfaces on AMCs and on the backplane together with the associated I/O boards incl. GbE, 10 GbE and SRIO.
11:30 - 12:00 hrs	Wind River Carrier Grade Linux in a MicroTCA environment MicroTCA offers a cost-effective, flexible and powerful hardware platform for the industrial, medical, networking, aerospace & defense and other vertical markets. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment - Linux Edition fits as a software platform perfectly, offering CGL 4.0-registered Wind River Linux which provides support for hardware management (IPMI) and increased availability, determinstic real-time with Real-Time Core and supports the latest in 64-bit and multi-core CPUs. Wind River Workbench helps to develop, validate, test, support and maintain your code with its run-time analysis tools, user- and system-level software- and hardware (JTAG) debugger support.
From 12:00 hrs	Lunch + Tabletop Shows + Running Demo

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