industry and in the sector of image-processing
have already announced that they wish to mi-
grate their systems over to the new specifica-
tion. Further conceivable application fields
are in the infotainment and train safety fields.
In parallel with the announcement of the sup-
port of CPCI-S.0 , Kontron is also introducing
several boards. Amongst these are the CPS3003-
SA processor board, the CPS3101 hard disk
carrier, the CPS3105 XMC-carrier and the
CPS53402 network cards with two GbE inter-
faces and CPS3410 with four 1 GbE interfaces.
But the company is not only making these
boards available as standard products. There
are complete system integrations that can be
supplied. This enables the application developer
activities to be limited to the specification of
the hardware requirements. The modular system
will be supplied if need be fully integrated – in-
cluding all of the necessary drivers. As far as
the chassis is concerned, for example, systems
supplied by Schroff are used, or the company
develops tailor-made individual designs. No
matter whether the performance package con-
sists of boards or systems, the functions and
interfaces of the CompactPCI Serial designs
will be characterized by the functions of the in-
dividual boards. In addition to hard disk carrier
and network cards, note should be taken above
all of the first Kontron processor board.
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Figure 2. Since the initial specification came out in 1999 up to the latest
version, the bandwidth of CompactPCI has expanded very considerably
with CompactPCI Serial.
Figure 3. With a processor board, two network controllers, an XMC
carrier and a SATA hard disk carrier, Kontron is offering the most
important components for CompactPCI Serial.
