The 1563 is a fullsized advanced telecommunications computing architecture atca printed circuit board capable of plugging into a standard atca slot. Advanced telecom computing architecture standard atca 6. Intelligent platform management controller for low level. Stresses in excess of the absolute maximum ratings can cause permanent damage to the device. Atca design considerations for telecommunication platforms. The atca specification defines the rack and chassis shelf form factors, passive backplane, cards, power, keying. It facilitates rightfirsttime development of multiprocessor designs, with large numbers of controllers and peripherals.
Bus is a group of wires that connects different components of the computer. Wishbone soc architecture specification, revision b. It defines a highspeed, highbandwidth bus, the advanced high performance bus ahb. Pci express, atca, amc as cpu speeds and physical access technologies continue to increase, dual 2 ghz servers have become commonplace, and 10 gb ethernet is just around the corner. It is used for transmitting data, control signal and memory address from one component to another. Computing architecture atca specifications require synchronization of their internal interfaces and the. Atca server systems for telecommunications services fujitsu.
The backplane distributes power, metallic test bus, ring generator bus, and lowlevel shelf. Advancedtca specification allows a variety of architectural implementations. Pci express architecture is a widely used communication bus designed for industrial application. Advanced telecommunications computing architecture atca or advancedtca is the largest specification effort in the history of the pci industrial computer manufacturers group picmg, with more than 100 companies participating. It shows 2 central timing cards, each containing a zl30116121 network synchronizer, providing a redundant set of system clocks to the atca synchronization backplane. Pdf pci express hotplug mechanism in linuxbased atca.
The system structure where all units ar e connected to a bus. The output of the unit is suitable for distributed architecture. Benefits and tradeoffs background atca is a picmg 1 standard that addresses the needs of todays telecommunications network elements through the use of commercial offtheshelf cots products. The advanced telecom computing architecture atca or advancedtca specification is designed to be used in central office grade equipment the telecommunications sector. Compute nodes in the atca advanced telecom computing architecture standard. The details in this manual have been carefully compiled and checked.
Amba advanced microcontroller bus architecture is a freelyavailable, open standard for the connection and management of functional blocks in a systemonchip soc. Atca board power input modules march 29, 2007 38 to 75vdc. This article first describes fundamental information on bus architectures and bus protocols, and then provides specific information on various industry standard bus architectures from the past and the present. The artesyn atca architecture for aegis is particularly useful for adapting thirdparty embedded computing products, which can be modified easily for this architecture, persons says.
The module is designed for conversion from a 48 v or 60 v telecommunication bus to an output voltage of 12 v. Pdf a main building block of the trigger and data acquisition in the panda experiment. Overview of atca shelf, shelf manager, blades and ipmc orgnization yehan liu august, 2007. It decomposes the dwbi planning process into manageable pieces by focusing on the organizations core business processes. The atca architecture looks attractive for beam instruments and detector. The board includes a dual, 48v input stage, highvoltageenergy storage, a 240w intermediate bus converter, a 10w, 3. Atca fan control advanced telecom computing architecture. Bus performance example the step for the synchronous bus are.
Advanced telecommunications computing architecture atca 7 developed by the pci industrial computer manufacturers group picmg is a set of industry standard specifications for the next generation of telecommunication network and data center equipment. Connecting these parts are three sets of parallel lines. Design of an advancedtca board management controller ipmc. Advanced telecommunications computing architecture atca or advancedtca is the largest. Atca design considerations for telecommunication platforms white paper proprietary and confidential to pmcsierra, inc. One synchronous bus has a clock cycle time of 50 ns with each bus transmission taking 1 clock cycle. The kimball groups enterprise data warehouse bus architecture is a key element of our approach. Intelligent platform management controller software. Advancedtca, atca advanced telecom computing architecture is the latest standard for carrier grade switching systems developed by the picmg pci industrial computers manufacturers group organization.
It has the most extensive input of any architecture standard to date and is backed by more than 100 companies including many of the large oems such. Achieving backplane redundancy radisys white paper 2 exploring redundancy. Kawasaki et al atca server systems for telecommunications services support the inheritance of architecture between generations backward compatibility with legacy resources, have a unified architecture to make the servers simpler to operate and reduce the cost of materials and maintenance low maintenance. Introduced in the 1990s, the technology and databaseindependent bus architecture allows for incremental data warehouse and business intelligence dwbi development. This allows the fan tray to use the communication bus that is already present, so all the hardware. Aims to outline the basic architecture of the ibm pc. The intelligent platform management controller ipmc is one of the main elements for hardware management in an advanced telecommunications computing architecture atca crate. Overview of atca shelf, shelf manager, blades and ipmc. Another asynchronous bus requires 40 ns per handshake. Atca advanced telecom computing architecture is the latest standard for carrier grade switching systems developed by the picmg pci industrial computers manufacturers group organization. An atca prototyping platform for cms phase2 andrew rose 3 passive electrical nondirectional modules are also available and compatible with the serenity design.
The standard covers shelves, blades, mezzanines and management. Oracle white paper enabling endtoend 10 gigabit ethernet in oracles sun netra atca product family 1 executive overview this paper provides an overview of oracles 10 gigabit ethernetenabled advanced telecom computing architecture atca platforms and the spectrum of available oracle sun blades. The processor, main memory, and io devices can be interconnected by means of. These facts demand that bus structures also keep up.
An entire pcie bus rescan is not required because it can be done from pex 8733 ports until the end of the chain in that branch. The electomechanical specification is based on iec60297. The bus can be used fo r only one transfer at a time so that only two units can actively use the bus at any given time. This also enables onthefly software upgrades while the system is operating. The discussion above points to the need for an interconnection system that. The shelf uses an intelligent platform management bus ipmb for management communications among all atca boards, the fan trays and the shelf managers. Bus architecture class 11 computer notes reference notes. Computer bus structures california state university. Management bus, a dualstar redundant wiring configuration is. The advanced telecommunications computing architecture is a new industry open standard for electronics. Hardware failure detection, redundancy procedures, and hot insertionremoval of the boards are tasks that ensure high availability to a control and data acquisition system. Atca 3672vin unregulated bus fullysemiregulated bus fullyregulated bus.
Slides for fundamentals of computer architecture 5 mark burrell, 2004 what is a computer. A pdf version of this short form specification can be. Achieving backplane redundancy in advancedtca systems. Enterprise data warehouse bus architecture kimball group. Advanced microcontroller bus architecture it is a specification for an onchip bus, to enable macrocells such as a cpu, dsp, peripherals, and memory controllers to be connected together to form a microcontroller or complex peripheral chip. The interinterposer bus is passive and makes no assumption of directionality. Advanced telecommunications computing architecture wikipedia. Known as advancedtca, the official specification designation picmg 3. We are using cookies for the best presentation of our site. The shelf uses an intelligent platform management bus ipmb for management. Ipmc mezzanine card shall be compliant with the block diagram presented.
To show the evolution of the architecture, and the enhancements that have improved the performance of the modern pc. The advancedtca telecommunication system standard has the most. Advancedtca, atca advanced telecom computing architecture is the latest standard for carrier. Arguments against atca in order to create an architecture generalized enough to appeal to all the vars and endusers, or at least a significant percentage of them, the cost of a system based on that architecture naturally increases. Advanced telecommunications computing architecture.
Enabling endtoend 10 gigabit ethernet in oracles sun. Atca server systems for telecommunications services. Pci express hotplug implementation for atca based instrumentation. Picmg 1, outlines a modular architecture by defining physical, electrical and. It also argues that it is possible to create a fully functional ipmc using base speci. Implementing atca serving gateways for lte networks.
Bus usb and ieee 94 are examples of serial buses while the isa and pci buses are examples of popular parallel buses. Find the bandwidth of each bus for oneword reads from 200ns memory. Figure 3 is a block diagram of a typical suite of power. This section defines the architecture of the atca4200 through descriptions of its. Architecture atca specification as approved on december 30, 2002 by the picmg. This design is the first one stop atca front end solution on the market today. A particular set of rules for one individual computer in the room. Atca bus description advanced telcom computing architecture. Navy relies on atca embedded computing system from artesyn. This application claims priority to and the benefit of u. To show how bridges have enhanced the performance of the pc. The ipmb architecture can be a pair of buses bused ipmb or a pair of radial. Lecture 23 emmc architecture and operation ecg 721 memory circuit design, spring 2017 jonathan k deboy 1. Pdf intelligent platform management controller for atca.
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