Abstract
The MicroTCA (MTCA) and AdvancedTCA (ATCA) industry standards have been selected as the hardware platform for the upgrade of the electronic systems of some of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) . In this context, the electronics support group for experiments at CERN is running a project to perform technical evaluations of MTCA and ATCA equipment. As part of this activity, a commercial solution for an Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC), an essential component of any ATCA blade design, is being evaluated. We validated the supported IPMC features, checked the interoperability and adapted the reference design for use on an existing ATCA carrier board.
Highlights
This paper presents the Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) functionality evaluation results, the design of the IPMC adapter card, the outcome of the commercial IPMC mezzanine adaptation to an existing ATCA carrier blade as well as the design of a CERN IPMC mezzanine card
The Pigeon Point Hardware and Software IPMC solution was acquired by CERN to perform its technical evaluation
The evaluation of the product was performed using the starter kit included in the license package and a real ATCA environment based on the LAPP carrier board
Summary
Hardware Platform Management AdvancedTCA (Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture) is an open architecture described by a series of standards from PICMG [1]. The carrier ATCA blade is a specific ATCA board designed to host Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC). The AMC card is an ATCA mezzanine dedicated to the user application It can be used with a carrier ATCA blade or in a MicroTCA architecture. 1.2 Commercial IPMC solution Pigeon Point Systems, recently acquired by Schroff/Pentair, is specialized in the development of the hardware management modules [3] described by the PICMG standard. The starter kit, included in the license package, is based on an interconnection card hosting the Pigeon Point IPMC mezzanine.
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