04 June 2004 Weaving a new fabric New backplane architectures speed data transmission. By Dave Bowring. Traditional parallel bus structures, like those used in CompactPCI and VME, are running up against limits imposed by physics and will not be able to respond to the ever increasing speed of system cpus. For this reason, overall system performance is now often limited by I/O bandwidth, as well as by the ability to move data in, out and between boards and systems. The solution is to move away from the traditional bus based structure for the backplane towards a star or mesh configuration. This approach has now been created as a standard by the telecom user group within PICMG, the 700 strong industry consortium that developed and maintains the CompactPCI family of specifications. Click here to request the article in full by email Author Graham Pitcher Comment on this article This material is protected by MA Business copyright See Terms and Conditions. One-off usage is permitted but bulk copying is not. For multiple copies contact the sales team. What you think about this article: Add your comments Name Email Comments Your comments/feedback may be edited prior to publishing. Not all entries will be published. Please view our Terms and Conditions before leaving a comment.
04 June 2004 Weaving a new fabric New backplane architectures speed data transmission. By Dave Bowring. Traditional parallel bus structures, like those used in CompactPCI and VME, are running up against limits imposed by physics and will not be able to respond to the ever increasing speed of system cpus. For this reason, overall system performance is now often limited by I/O bandwidth, as well as by the ability to move data in, out and between boards and systems. The solution is to move away from the traditional bus based structure for the backplane towards a star or mesh configuration. This approach has now been created as a standard by the telecom user group within PICMG, the 700 strong industry consortium that developed and maintains the CompactPCI family of specifications. Click here to request the article in full by email Author Graham Pitcher Comment on this article This material is protected by MA Business copyright See Terms and Conditions. One-off usage is permitted but bulk copying is not. For multiple copies contact the sales team. What you think about this article: Add your comments Name Email Comments Your comments/feedback may be edited prior to publishing. Not all entries will be published. Please view our Terms and Conditions before leaving a comment.
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