While The Who sang about a bus in 1968 that transports people, digital designers use the same term for an electrical path that transports data. In modular instrument systems, buses can also transport ...

The RF DIN 1.0/2.3 modular backplane system from Molex enables PCB developers in the video, commercial broadcast, and telecommunications industries to transfer multiple RF signals across mated boards ...

Elma Bustronic now offers a 14-slot MicroTCA backplane. The unit features 12 AMC slots, one power module slot, and one MicroTCA controller hub (MCH) slot in the single-width, full-size format. The ...

The U.S. Navy, always seeking paths to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of systems, took another step in that direction with the FlexVPX concept, which was developed at its U.S. Naval ...

Amanufacturer in the embedded-computer industry must choose from more than 65 fabrics on a list that just keeps growing. Many of the switched-interconnect technologies use new, specialized backplanes.

Since the days when classic open platform technologies, such as VME and CompactPCI, were established in the 1980s and 1990s, the processing power available to system designers has continued to ...

The IEEE Standards Association recently approved a standard for backplane Ethernet, to be called 802.3ap. The standard specifies how network equipment makers can transmit Gigabit Ethernet and 10 ...