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Backplanes – Value Added Services from Verotec… CCustom Backplanes TecServ+ is the vehicle by which Verotec delivers its value added services. These fall within 5 main categories and are described below. When it comes to backplanes, we’ve worked with many customers in the past to design, manufacture and help bring to market modified and custom versions of our standard products – a small selection of these are pictured below. If you have any special backplane requirements, please contact our sales office. Engineering Services: Complete review of commercial, electro-mechanical, environmental and...

Verotec design, supply and integrate bus based products and systems. Our extensive standard range consists of open-architecture backplanes and extender boards for VME, VME64x, VXI, VPX, VXS, CompactPCI, PXI, AdvancedTCA and uTCA. Many years of design knowledge and expertise in backplane technology means that, in addition to standard product, we’re able to offer modified to fully custom designs to your specifications. We can also support a number of legacy backplane products such as STEbus. CONTENTS: 6U 8 Slot PXI Backplane Assembly Capability Backplane Design Capability Backplane Manufacturing...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – Design Capability VME Industrial Trade Association PCI Industrial Manufacturers Group Standard Backplane Design Verotec works with leading standards organizations such as VITA and PICMG (above) to bring to market the latest open-architecture products. These include a wide range of backplanes conforming to VME, VXI, OpenVPX, CompactPCI, PXI and AdvancedTCA standards. CompactPCI AdvancedTCA Software Tools We use a number of software tools to aid backplane design, including Cadence Allegro, Mentor Graphics and Pads. Our knowledge and experience means we can meet...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – Manufacturing Capability Backplane Manufacture Our backplane manufacturing facility in the UK is at the forefront of technology and is equipped with some of the latest surface mount, soldering, press fit and testing machinery available. Assembly and test facilities are ESD protected with workmanship meeting the requirements of IPC610 Class III. All Verotec backplanes are manufactured with systems approval in accordance with ISO 9001:2008. Every backplane is tested and inspected before it leaves the factory whilst meeting fully the requirements of both ROHS and...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – VMEbus Verotec offer a comprehensive range of VME backplanes from 1 to 21 slots wide in J1, J2 (3U) and J1/J2 monolithic (6U) variants. They offer excellent performance in the areas of crosstalk, ground shift, controlled impedance, power distribution and termination design. In addition to form factor and slot size, a choice of mechanical (switching connectors) or electronic (OR-gate) automatic daisy chaining is available. Conforms to VME64 specification (ANSI/VITA 1-1994) True 3U/6U eurocard height Excellent crosstalk performance, low ground shift Automatic daisy...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – VME64 Extensions Introduction VME64 Extensions backplanes from Verotec are available in a 6U formfactor, from 1 to 21 slots wide, and with or without P0 connectors. VME64x incorporates a 5 row, 160way DIN connector which provides extra I/O and signal lines but also backward compatibility with traditional VMEbus systems that use the 96way DIN interconnect. Additional features include: An optional P0/J0 metric connector giving 95 extra user definable pins (note: these are not bussed) +3.3v power and 4 x auxillary power planes Test and maintenance bus Geographic...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – VXI Introduction The specification governing VXIbus – an acronym for VMEbus eXtension for Instrumentation – defines the use of 4 x bus module sizes (fig.1), with the “A” and “B” modules being the same as 3U & 6U VMEbus cards. Although the VXI specification, broadly speaking, follows the VME standards, it includes defined functions on the P2 conneector and a further set of functions on the P3 connector. The most important variation in the two standards arises from the fact that any VXIbus instruments incorporated in a system must be capable of being physically...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – VPX / OpenVPX Introduction Defense and aerospace system designers are looking to serial switch fabric architectures to provide an interconnect able to deliver cost-effective systems with bandwidth and performance levels unreachable by traditional VME-bused systems. While VME continues to provide an excellent solution for a great number of applications, it is unable to provide the bandwidth and performance required to address new specialized multiprocessing tasks. VPX (VITA 46) and OpenVPX (VITA 65) are two new standards recently developed to address demanding...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – VXS Introduction Defense and aerospace system designers are looking to serial switch fabric architectures to provide an interconnect able to deliver cost-effective systems with bandwidth and performance levels unreachable by traditional VMEbused systems. While VME continues to provide an excellent solution for a great number of applications, it is unable to provide the bandwidth and performance required to address new specialized multiprocessing tasks. VXS (VITA 41) is one of two new standards recently developed to address demanding applications that require throughput...

Backplanes and Extender Boards – CompactPCI Introduction CompactPCI is an adaptation of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) specification, rev.3, for industrial and/or embedded applications that require a more robust mechanical form-factor than (but electrically compatible to) normal desktop PCI. Verotec design and manufacture a range of backplanes conforming to the below specifications / standards: CompactPCI – Core (PICMG 2.0 Rev.3) Our standard range of high performance, hot swap, CompactPCI backplanes are available in 3U, 6U & 9U form factors and from 2 to 16 slots wide*. The generic...