FREMONT, Calif., 28 Sept. 2010. Elma Bustronic Corp. in Fremont, Calif., is introducing VXS backplane technology with a Gigabit Ethernet Control Layer Channel per VITA 41.6. The first in the series of Elma Bustronic's VXS backplanes with the control channel is a 20-slot size. It has a dual star routing topology and 18-layer stripline design. The Gigabit Ethernet control channel provides for out-of-band communication.
The 7U high backplane also has power studs in 3.3, 5, and 12 volts, as well as GND along the top and bottom of the backplane for power options. Elma Bustronic also offers Dual Star topologies VXS backplanes in 8, 12, 18, 20, and 21 slots. VXS Star backplanes include sizes in 5 slots and an 8-slot with one hub, 5 payload, and 2 legacy VME64x slots.
Other Elma Bustronic features for VXS include a switchless mesh, processor mesh, VXS/VPX hybrid backplanes, and extender card. The Switchless VXS backplane has three point-to-point mesh slots and two legacy VME64x slots. All of the company's VXS backplanes are compliant to the VITA 41.0 core specification. For more information contact Elma Bustronic online at www.bustronic.com.
