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Hybricon Announces the availability of Standard VITA 65 Compliant VPX Backplanes Includes support for OpenVPX

  

AYER, MA – January 27, 2010 – Hybricon (a Curtiss Wright Controls Electronic Systems Company), a world-class solutions company providing integrated system solutions, electronic enclosures, backplanes, card cage assemblies and subsystem interconnect packaging for military, telecom, medical, and commercial applications, announces the availability of standard VITA 65 Compliant VPX backplanes.   These standard backplanes are compatible and interchangeable with Hybricon’s recently announced Air Cooled Development Chassis Families.

 

VPX is a broadly defined technology utilizing the latest in a variety of switch fabric technologies in 3U and 6U format modules. VITA 65 OpenVPX is the architecture framework that defines system-level VPX interoperability for multi-vendor, multi-module, integrated system environments. The OpenVPX framework delineates clear interoperability points necessary for integrating module to module, module to backplane and chassis.

 

Hybricon is a leading member of the VITA 65 Working Group and the VPX Marketing Alliance which is focused on the advancement of the VPX family of technologies, including VPX, VPX REDI, OpenVPX, as well as other related activities on the VPX roadmap such as fiber optics and RF. Information on this organization can be found at http://www.vita.com/vpx.html.  Hybricon has translated that expertise into these standard backplane offerings.

Hybricon’s standard VITA 65 VPX Backplanes meet the following specifications:

• VPX Backplanes support OpenVPX, VPX and VPX REDI
• ANSI/VITA 46.0, ANSI/VITA 65, VITA 46.3, VITA 46.4, VITA 46.7, and VITA 46.11 draft standards
• VITA 48.0, VITA 48.1 and VITA 48.2 draft standards
• VITA 65 OpenVPX: backplane configurations
• Suitable for use in both Air Cooled VITA 48.1 and Conduction Cooled VITA 48.2 applications
• Designed to meet environmental requirements per ANSI/VITA 47 class ECC4 (requires optional conformal coating to meet requirements such as humidity, salt and fog)
• Operating Temperature -40C to +85C at MSL

The VITA 65 OpenVPX Backplanes are available in the following configurations:

• 3U Sizes
  • 3U BKP3-CEN06-15.2.2-3 – 6 slots, central switch topology, 1 switch slot - 6.25 Gbaud
  • 3U BKP3-DIS06-15.2.7-3 – 6 slots, daisy chain data fabric topology, 5 payload slots, 1 uncommitted control switch slot - 6.25 Gbaud
• 6U Sizes
  • 6U BKP6-CEN05-11.2.5-3  – 5 slots, central switch topology, 1 switch slot, 4 FP to each payload slot - 6.25 Gbaud
  • 6U BKP6-DIS06-11.2.10-3 - 6 slots, mesh data fabric topology, 5 payload slots, 1 control switch slot - 6.25 Gbaud
  • 6U BKP6-DIS06-11.2.15-1 - 6 slots, mesh data fabric topology, 5 payload slots, 1 uncommitted control switch slot – 3.125 Gbaud
  • 6U BKP6-DIS05-11.2.16-1 - 5 slots, mesh data fabric topology, 5 payload slots – 3.125 Gbaud
• These backplanes are compatible with Hybricon’s new air cooled Smart Open Frame and Tower Development Chassis
• Additional standard configurations are currently in development and will be released throughout 2010.

"Hybricon will continue to take an active role in the definition of new standards and the release of products that work to these standards”, says Hybricon’s Neil Peterson, VP of Sales and Marketing and Chair of the VPX Marketing Alliance. “Our customers can count on Hybricon to provide support for new technologies as they are required for integration into existing systems or for new development programs."

If you would like to discuss your project requirements to determine the appropriate technology and if VPX would be a fit for your application, please contact Hybricon. For other configurations not listed, please contact us.