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Description
The NAT-MCH is successfully serving MicroTCA applications and appliances around the world for more than 19 years now.
However, today’s demands from the markets are very diverse as they do not only include request for simplified and easy-to-work-with solutions. The requirements also include fast and low-latency interconnects as well as increased connectivity to systems beyond the MicroTCA environment.
The current generation of MTCA.0 Rev 3 compliant MCHs from N.A.T. addresses these demands by a flexible combination of user-selectable building blocks for low-end and high-end switching and timing. The building blocks include switches for Ethernet and PCIexpress and timing based on IEEE1588/SyncE or GPS but also cover custom rquirements by its Protocol Agnostic Fabric (PAF) switch and programmable PLLs and clocking multiplexers.
The presentation will briefly introduce the building blocks before demonstrating how MicroTCA systems can be connected to the other MicroTCA and non-MicroTCA systems using low and high-speed system interconnects for Ethernet and PCIe.
The presentation by Herbert Erd on “An “industrial server” made of MicroTCA building blocks (& something else)” will then demonstrate the use of these system interconnects in real applications.
