38 results about "Advanced Mezzanine Card" patented technology

The invention provides a boundary scanning system and a method based on high-performance computing communication framework. The system comprises a main master board, a business single board, a backboard, and a senior interlayer card module, further a JTAG controller equipped on the main master board for transmitting control information to business single board; a JTAG Grade I bridge equipped on the business single board for connecting JTAG equipment on the business single board; and a JTAG Grade II bridge equipped on the senior interlayer card module for connecting JTAG equipment on the senior interlayer card module.

A method according to one embodiment may include providing a circuit board having a connector footprint including a plurality of electrical contacts and providing a mezzanine card including a first plurality of conductive traces on a first side of the mezzanine card. The method of this embodiment may also include providing a first wiring board disposed between at least a portion of the circuit board and at least a portion of the mezzanine card. The first wiring board may electrically couple at least a portion of the electrical contacts of the connector footprint to at least a portion of the conductive traces of the mezzanine card. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.

The invention discloses a power supply configuration method and a power supply configuration device. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring preset rated power of each advanced mezzanine card (AMC) and valid load of each power supply module for supplying power to the AMC from a database; determining and storing a power supply mapping relationship between the AMC and the power supply module based on predetermined rules according to the rated power and the valid load; and switching on a power supply switch between the AMC and the power supply module according to the stored power supply mapping relationship. By means of the technical scheme of the embodiment, the power supply module can ensure that each power supply channel is driven by enough power supply power before being enabled, the power supply module can realize intelligent power supply management of an AMC single board, the power supply module is ensured to supply as much power as possible to the AMC under maximum supplied power, the power supply module is ensured not to overload, the energy is saved, the method and the device are environmentally-friendly, and meanwhile, the service life of a power supply is prolonged.

The invention relates to a general platform system of uTCA hardware. The system is characterized in that: the main body is a chassis; two power supply modules, an Oring circuit module for power supply redundancy configuration, a rear panel, and a uTCA carrier hub (MCH) module, asynchronous communication control modules (AMC) and a fan radiating unit arranged in parallel on the rear panel are arranged in the chassis, wherein the power supply modules are common power supply modules and arranged on the exterior of the rear panel. The number of the AMC is 1 to 12; 12 full high-size AMC board cards can simultaneously run in parallel; and the rear panel is provided with hot plug control circuits which form one-to-one corresponding control relationships together with an MCH board block, AMC board blocks and the fan radiating unit respectively. A standard uTCA power supply board card is not adopted, and the common module power supply is adopted, so that the power supply management is simpler, difficulty and cost of developing a management level with low association with the system are reduced, double-MCH module master and slave backups are supported, the reliability is enhanced, 12 full configured full high-size advanced mezzanine card (AMC) modules are supported, and the capacity of the system is improved.

The invention discloses a micro telecommunication and computation general hardware platform architecture (MicroTCA) system, which simplifies the complexity of power management of a PM on AMCs. The system comprises a first MicroTCA power module (PM) and more than one advanced mezzanine card (AMC), wherein the first power module PM comprises a 3.3V power control circuit, an AMC control unit and a 3.3V power control unit; the AMC control unit is used for detecting whether a corresponding AMC is stably inserted according to a PS1intersecting parallels port of each AMC, and enabling an enabling signal according to an AMC stable insertion signal command of a load management unit when the AMC is stably inserted; the 3.3V power control unit controls the 3.3V power control circuit according to the enabling signal when the AMC is stably inserted; and the 3.3V power control circuit is used for providing a 3.3V power supply for the AMC according to control of the 3.3V power control unit. Simultaneously, the invention provides a power management device and a power control method for the MicroTCA system.

The invention discloses a miniature telecommunications and computing common hardware platform architecture Micro TCA system, which comprises a swapping control module and a plurality of advanced mezzanie cards. In the advanced mezzanie cards, at least two advanced mezzanie cards are connected with each other by an advanced mezzanie cards interconnection channel. The invention also discloses a method for managing the Micro TCA system. By adopting the system and the method, one advanced mezzanie card can be connected with one or a plurality of advanced mezzanie cards by the advanced mezzanie cards interconnection channel to form one or a plurality of groups of substracts, thereby providing a redundant intelligent platform management bus channel for the advanced mezzanine cards. Therefore, the redundant intelligent platform management bus channel can be selected for communication of the advanced mezzanine cards and the swapping control module.

The invention relates to a telecommunication-level universal hardware platform, in particular to a micro telecom computing architecture (TCA) standard-based media server. In the media server, two paths of alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) power are fixed on a case; the power is converted by a power module and then provided to an Oring circuit on a back panel to output 12V power to a load power system and a DC-DC power module; the power module outputs 3.3V power to a management power system; the load power system comprises 4 to 16 load power modules, and outputs 12V power to a microTCA carrier hub (MCH), an advanced mezzanine card (AMC) and a radiating fan; and the management power system comprises 2 to 14 management power modules, and outputs 3.3V power to the MCH and the AMC. In the media server, a microTCA standard power module is cancelled, a normal power module is used, and the management system is electrified by the MCH, so that the complexity and the production cost for power supply of the system are reduced; and a hot-plug circuit is arranged on the back panel, so that a hot-plug function is realized.

The invention provides a 1U system design method based on MicroTCA standard, wherein a backboard is in horizontal arrangement and provides the physical connection based on the high speed serial technology between the high class interlayer card, and backboard is equipped with a extra strong pipe switching module, a enlargement module controller and an x86 COM-EXPRESS module. The project of the invention solves the problem of the system performance and the price under the premise which perfectly accords with the MicroTCA module interconnecting criterion with good applying foreground.

The invention provides a method for extending commutative controller (MCH), MCH, a method for extending Micro Telecom Calculation Architecture (Micro TCA) and a Micro TCA system. A connecting part is set on the second layer of a dual-width MCH, wherein, the connecting part is connected to the function module of the MCH and provides connecting signal; as the Micro TCA system is being extended, a source module is to be extended based on the extension of the MCH. The method can be used for supporting more than 12 advanced mezzanine cards, as well as for realizing dual-Tongue function on one Tongue without using the MCH connecter in order to save cost. Thus, the extension of the MicroTCA system can be realized.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a MicroTCA (micro telecom computing architecture) system which at least comprises a first subregion, a second subregion and a base unit, wherein the first subregion consists of a first power supply unit and at least one AMC (advanced mezzanine card); the second subregion consists of a second power supply unit and at least one AMC; the AMC in the first subregion is supplied with power by the first power supply unit; the AMC in the second subregion is supplied with power by the second power supply unit; the first subregion and the second subregion share the base unit; and the base unit is supplied with power by the first power supply unit and the second power supply unit. In the embodiment of the invention, the MicroTCA system is divided into multiple subregions, the AMC in each subregion utilizes respective power supply module for power supply, all power supply modules supply power to the base unit, and the multiple subregions share the base unit, therefore, the number of the base units can be reduced, and the production cost is lowered; and information interaction and synchronization among multiple plates are not needed, thus simplifying management of power supply modules and other modules, and lowering the complexity for scheme realization.

The invention relates to an AMC (advanced mezzanine card) board card structure based on a MicroTCA (telecom and computing architecture) standard and a connection type thereof. The AMC board card structure comprises AMC board cards and an MCH (metal ceramics heater) board card which are arranged on a MicroTCA standard system back plate, and is characterized in that each AMC board card is also provided with an SRIO (serial rapid input/output) switch chip, an MMC (multi media card) chip and DSP (digital signal processing) chips, wherein the SRIO switch chip comprises data processing channels and an AMC board card interconnection channel, the number of the data processing channels is the same as that of the DSP chips, the data processing channels are connected with the DSP chips, and the AMC board card interconnection channel is connected to the back plate through an AMC connector; the MMC chip adopts an ARM (advanced RISC machines) microcontroller chip, and the ARM microcontroller chip is connected with an MCH board card through an IPMI (intelligent platform management interface); and the DSP chip is connected to the ARM microcontroller chip through a UART (universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter). Each AMC board card respectively establishes interconnection topologies with the AMC board cards, same in quantity, positioned on the two sides of each AMC board card through the SRIO switch chip, so that software and hardware pressures concentrated on the MCH can be directly scattered to each AMC board card, further the resource space of the MCH can be saved and the resource allocation of the system can be balanced; meanwhile, the AMC board cards can be flexibly configured, the bandwidth can be increased and decreased timely, and the stability and reliability of the system and the flexibility of the configuration can be enhanced, thus the AMC board card is applied to the design requirements of telecommunication equipment in a high-definition era.

The invention provides a method, device and ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) carrier board for dynamically allocating power to an AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card), aiming at providing a strategy for dynamically allocating the power to a system which adopts the AMC with various rated powers, wherein the method comprises a step of monitoring the actual power obtained by the AMC, a step of comparing the actual power obtained by the AMC with the rated power of the AMC and a step of adjusting an actual power value allocated to the AMC for the enablement of the AMC under the condition that the actual power allocated to the AMC is less than the rated power of the AMC; if the system is an ATCA system, when the AMC is plugged into the ATCA carrier board for the first time, a power detection module detects the total power consumption of the ATCA carrier board and the AMC and an IPMC (Intelligent Platform Management Controller) adjusts the power of the ATCA carrier board according to the total power consumption; and when the ATCA carrier board and the AMC are located in a normal working state, the power monitoring module monitors the powers of the AMC and the ATCA carrier board in real time for the realization of intelligent electricity supply management on the ATCA carrier board. With the adoption of the ATCA carrier board and the electricity power allocation method of the AMC, the powering-on debugging of the ATCA carrier board and the AMC and the exertion of the maximum performance of the system are facilitated.