Concurrent SY AMC/205 MicroTCA Development System

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The SY AMC/205, from Concurrent Technologies, is a MicroTCA System designed to aid the bench development of MicroTCA applications. The a 5-slot MicroTCA is a free-standing cube which supports up to 5 AdvancedMC (AMC) modules. The SY AMC/205 comes pre-loaded with a dual-core processor AMC, a graphics and storage-disk AMC, and a MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) which leaves 3 AMC slots available for system development. Typical applications for MicroTCA systems are telecommunications, security, defence, image-processing, process-control, and medical markets.

SY AMC/205 MicroTCA Backplane Configuration Block Diagram
SY AMC/205 MicroTCA Backplane Configuration Block Diagram

The SY AMC/205 Development System is supplied with a 320W universal power supply and a plug-removable cooling fan cassette. The MCH supports on-board Carrier Manager software accessible via a remote web browser. Since the AM 110/102 supports many of today's leading operating systems, including Linux, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, Windows 2000 and QNX the SY AMC/205 is suitable for a wide range of user configured applications. The SY AMC/205 provides 3 full-height AMC slots (1 double-width and 2 single-width) for OEM AMC modules. The system supports the PICMG MicroTCA and PICMG AMC.0 specifications.

MicroTCA Development System

  • MicroTCA Development System
    • Supports single-width and double width AMC modules
    • Supports PICMG MicroTCA.0 1.9 and PICMG AMC.0
  • MicroTCA Backplane provides 5 vertically mounted card slots
    • 1 AMC double-width full-height (3 HP) slot
    • 4 AMC single-width full-height (3 HP) slots
    • 1 MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) (3 HP) slot
    • 1 MicroTCA Power Input Module (3 HP) slot

Pre-loaded Boards

  • AM 110/102
    2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo AMC SBC fitted with 4 Gbytes of SDRAM
  • AM 400/101
    CRT and DFP graphics adaptor including 2.5" SATA hard disk drive
  • MT MCH/001
    MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) with a 6-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and a 6 x4-link PCI Express switch

More info: Concurrent Technologies SY AMC/205 MicroTCA Development System

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