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Advanced Mezzanine Cards are printed circuit boards (PCBs) that follow a specification of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedMC, the official specification designation is AMC.x (see below). AdvancedMC is targeted to requirements for the next generation of 'carrier grade' communications equipment. This series of specifications are designed to work on any carrier card (primarily AdvancedTCA) but also to plug into a backplane directly as defined by MicroTCA specification.

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    • Advanced Mezzanine Cards are printed circuit boards (PCBs) that follow a specification of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedMC, the official specification designation is AMC.x (see below). AdvancedMC is targeted to requirements for the next generation of 'carrier grade' communications equipment. This series of specifications are designed to work on any carrier card (primarily AdvancedTCA) but also to plug into a backplane directly as defined by MicroTCA specification.

      Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Mezzanine_Card)

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      CommAgility announces new AMC processor module with front panel SRIO interface

      CommAgility announced today a new Advanced Mezzanine Card module, further expanding its range of processing subsystems. The AMC-3D74 includes a front panel mounted Serial RapidIO (SRIO) interface, and provides a cost-effective, high performance solution for test equipment and general purpose DSP processing applications. Multiple 10Gbps SRIO interfaces are provided for radio cards and any customer-specific I/O requirements. The SRIO...
      http://www.rapidio.org

      Intel Microsite: MicroTCA / AdvancedMC Resource Center

      Information about MicroTCA and AMC products and technology Search for MicroTCA Products Find sources for these products and more. Search for AMC Products Search for MicroTCA Systems Search for MicroTCA Chassis Advanced Search White Papers & Resources Increase your knowledge of the value, versatility and performance that the MicroTCA specification brings to the design of the cost-effective, highly available systems....
      http://www.intelcommsalliance.com/microtca/

      PICMG Announces New Product Directory

      PICMG, a leading standards organization for the communications, military and embedded computer industries, is pleased to announce the debut of its recently enhanced Product Directory, which provides detailed information and downloadable data sheets for over 500 products, compliant to PICMG's broad portfolio of open standards, produced by member companies. Averaging over 10,000 inquiries a month, PICMG's Product Directory has long been the...
      http://www.picmg.org/v2internal/news.htm#pr020910

      coreIPM - open source management architecture for platform management

      coreIPM® is an open source management architecture for platform management. It is designed to manage systems that can range from an individual board to more complex configurations that can be made up of any combination of boards, blades, enclosure controllers, and multiple enclosure aggregations. coreIPM is compliant with the Intelligent Platform Interface Management (IPMI) v2.0 with PICMG 3.0 R2.0 AdvancedTCA extensions. coreIPM...
      http://www.coreipm.com/

      PICMG - PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturer's Group

      Consortium of over 600 companies who collaboratively develop specifications for open architecture computing for demanding applications. PICMG Specifications include CompactPCI for Eurocard, rackmount applications; PCI/ISA for passive backplane, standard format cards; and PICMG 3.x, the new initiative for next-generation telecom equipment. [Com Express, ATCA, AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC, MicroTCA, 2.16]
      http://www.picmg.org/

      New Developments in the PowerPC / Power Architecture from AMCC - 5 January 2009

      Dan Bouvier, Processor CTO, AMCC, discusses new trends in the PowerPC / Power Architecture especially with respect to 'reference kits' now available in the telecom/networking space for standards like AdvancedMC and MicroTCA based on AMCC 's 460GT processor. In addition, he details their PowerPC 460GTx which offers advanced features including Gigabit Ethernet ports with TCP/IP assist, 801.p- and q-compatible QoS, encryption/decryption engine,...
      http://www.eg3.com/etc-awards/amcc20081219-powerpc.htm

      FPGA and AdvancedMC news from BittWare

      Jeff Milrod, President and CEO of BittWare, speaks with eg3.com about their new AdvancedMC, FPGA-based boards as well as the technical issues surrounding 'build vs. buy' in the high performance, FPGA board business. BittWare is a market leader in Altera-based (FPGA) boards that cross a range of high performance applications ranging from military to telecommunications to medical. The company recently released their S4-AMC (S4AM), the first...
      http://www.eg3.com/etc-awards/20090217-bittware.htm

      Crystal Cube Consulting (CCC)

      We produce market research reportson a wide spectrum of different topics that affect tomorrow's digital future. Subjects include the software market for networking equipment, high speed I\O interfaces, high speed bus architectures, new emerging universal telecom standards, such as AdvancedTCA, Advanced Mezzanine Cards, and MicroTCA, as well as, new standard development underway , and other topics to be determined in the future.
      http://www.crystalcubeconsulting.com/

      Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) @ PICMG

      The Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) specifications denoted AMC.x are a series of PICMG specifications, that take the extensive knowledge and practices developed with AdvancedTCA and applies them to the area of smaller form factor mezzanine cards. Companies participating in the AdvancedMC effort have brought a wide range of knowledge of the industry. They include telecommunications equipment manufacturers, board and system level...
      http://www.picmg.org/v2internal/AdvancedMC.htm

      Astek Corporation Announces 10Gbps Content Processor AdvancedMC board

      Astek Corporation announced the A8T84140-AMC, an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) that brings the performance of the LSI Corporation (http://www.lsi.com) Tarari T1000 Content Processor to the PICMG xTCA market. The A8T84140-AMC board contains 4 high-speed LSI Tarari T1050, low-cost application-specific standard products (ASSPs) optimized for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), each of which boasts up to 512MBy of DDR2 Memory for pattern . . .
      http://www.astekcorp.com

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