As bandwidth needs increase, backplane design shifts to point-to-point star topologies using narrow, high-speed links. Simulation of design before routing and layout is critical, but it can be ...

Switched serial interconnects have placed substantial performance demands on backplane design. The open-specification organizations VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA) and PCI Industrial ...

Force10 Networks has been awarded a patent for its advancements in developing the high capacity backplane that powers its TeraScale E-Series. The TeraScale E-Series can process 1 billion packets per ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1, 2004 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the world leader in programmable logic solutions and AMIRIX Systems, a leading provider of embedded systems design services, today ...

The U.S. Navy, always seeking paths to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of systems, took another step in that direction with the FlexVPX concept, which was developed at its U.S. Naval ...

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 ...

April 6, 2004 - Teradyne, Inc. (NYS: TER), Connection Systems Division, the industry leader in high-performance connection systems, and Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), a leading developer of chip interface ...

If you're like a lot of design engineers, you want to design a high-performance communications system that's scalable, supports "five-nines" high availability (HA), and is low in cost—and you need to ...

The newly released Micro Backplane Design Guide highlights Samtec's high speed and high density board-to-board and panel & I/O interface solutions ideal for high speed micro backplane applications, as ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...