NATIVE-IPC: new generation of IPC
International CTIA wireless, (May 8. -10.), New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Meet N.A.T. at CTIA (booth #4952) and be a part of the global wireless marketplace. Please contact us for a free ticket and to schedule a meeting with Heiko Körte.
The CTIA will be the top meeting place for international wireless communications industry with more than 1,000 companies on a 325,000+ square foot show floor and world-class speakers. "International CTIA WIRELESS is where the high-tech communications world meets for four days of intense business, learning and networking."
Summary: N.A.T. announces the NAT-PM-DC780, the DC version of the two N.A.T. PMs for MicroTCA applications, offers power conversion from two -48VDC input sources to 16 independent 12 V channels for payload power and 3.3 V for management power. This PM provides Shared Management Power (SMP) - backup power- for other PMs in the system and is designed to run up to 12 AMCs, 2 Cooling Units and 2 MCHs.
Overview: The NAT-PM-DC780 is a high-density, high-efficiency PM for MicroTCA applications. Supplying 780W it is the market’s most efficient PM to run today’s complex communication systems that use latest processor generations of large memory capacity and an increased number of Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC). The NAT-PM-DC780 provides electrical support for the maximum expected workload of 12 Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs), 2 Cooling Units (CUs) and 2 MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) modules.
EMMC: The PM includes a robust Enhanced Module Management Controller (EMMC) that interfaces the power control functionality via an Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) to the MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH).
Redundancy and Load Sharing: The NAT-PM-DC-780 supports redundancy as well as load sharing modes as in accordance with the MicroTCA specification. In case of an input power supply failure the onboard EMMC can be provided by SMP power from other PMs, so that the MCH is able to analyze root cause failure.
LED Indicators: Besides the standard indicator leds for hot-swap, failure and heartbeat the NAT-PMC-DC780 has a unique light bar indicator, showing the total power load of the module on a scale from 0 to 100% in real time.
Applications:
The NAT-PM-DC780 is a hot swappable, fully redundant and highly efficient PM. The module’s single-width design offers perfect thermal performance and is therefore ideally suited for all air cooled MicroTCA solutions. The PM’s software has been developed and de-bugged using the MCH from NAT as a reference tool. It is fully compatible with any cards or modules insertable into a MicroTCA chassis. Application areas are commercial-, military-, and tele- communications, automation test equipment, medical, video demand, security, industrial machine control and other clustered computing applications.
Key features
- input power protection
- input isolation
- inrush control
- input OR-ing
- EMI input filtering
- holdup circuit
- high efficiencypower conversion
- optical load indicator
- power management for 16 power channels
- backup power for other PMs (SMP)
- support for N+1, 2+2 redundancy and
- load sharing
Download this Press Release with product picture and block diagram as pdf.
European Wireless Conference, (April 18. - 20.), Poznań, Poland
N.A.T. will take the oportunity to be present at the 18th European Wireless Conference (EW 2012) in Poznań, Poland. This event is hosted by Poznań University of Technology with the cooperation of Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering.
The key theme of the trade show is "Cooperative Communications". Together with IAF ( Institut für angewandte Funksystemtechnik GmbH - www.iaf-bs.de), N.A.T. will show MicroTCA solutions for Science, Mobile and Industrial Applications. MicroTCA as open standard is ideally suited for these applications because of its scalable modern architecture (from 5 slot single to 12 slot double size), high availability (e.g. redundanccy, well defined management), maintenance advantages (e.g. hot-swap, decoupling of modules on the backplane), etc..
Expo Ferroviaria, (March 27. - 29.), Torino, Italy
N.A.T. will be represented by Goma Elettronica at Expo Ferroviaria 2012, Italy's rail technology showcase. It is a major event in the rail industry’s calendar, EXPO Ferroviaria provides a unique marketing opportunity for suppliers to Italy’s rail network – one of the largest and busiest in Europe.
The fifth edition of EXPO Ferroviaria will be staged at the Lingotto Exhibition Centre in Turin, Italy, from 27 - 29 March 2012.
ESC (The Embedded Systems Conference), (March 26. - March 29.), San Jose, Silicon Valley
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The NAT-MCH is equipped with the SRIO Gen 2 switch by IDT. The SRIO 2.0 standard extends the physical layer to support 5.0 Gbaud and 6.25 Gbaud lane rates achieving up to 20 Gb/s (2.5 GB/s) of usable bandwidth with 4x RapidIO port. The NAT-MCH supports up to 13 AMC slots with 4 lanes and 2 uplink ports each with 4 lanes to the front panel.
NAT-MCH with FPGA and SFP+ for CPRI or customized serial high bandwidth protocol.
N.A.T. presents a new member of its MicroTCA Carrier Hub family: the NAT-MCH-FPGA combines the fast and low latency SRIO switching with a fully-customizable Kintex-7 FPGA and SFP+ receptacles, saving 1 AMC slot. The special FPGA hub module is intended to be used for switching or multiplexing CPRI™, OBSAI, standard (e.g. SRIO, XAUI) or customized serial protocols.
CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface) and OBSAI (Open Base Architecture Initiative) are key internal interfaces of radio base stations between the Radio Equipment Control and the Radio Equipment. Standard protocols such as SRIO and XAUI are dedicated for applications such as Media Gateways and Test & Measurement Equipment. Moreover, this board is ideally suited for going beyond the standard MCH features by utilizing the FPGA as
- cluster provider by grouping and bundling data streams to and from AMCs and external high-performance data sources
- point-to-point data connector by high-performance serial connectivity to benefit from standard backplanes
- powerful data logging machine by adding e.g. ARM processor cores
- data stream analyser by high-density logic and advanced memory interfacing
Applications and benefits: Due to its low latency SRIO switch combined with a XILINX Kintex-7 FPGA the NAT-MCH-FPGA establishes a highly adaptable and flexible interconnect for up to 12 Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC) in a MTCA system.
Utilizing the SFP+ receptacles external signals can be easily brought to the system, be manipulated by the FPGA and then be distributed to the AMCs. LTE and WiMax applications and others such as Software Defined Radio (SDR) could benefit i.e. by directly providing antenna signals to a farm of high performance Digital Signal Processor (DSP) AMCs.
Other applications like test and measurement equipment requiring at the same time both a manipulation of the data stream and low latency switching will benefit from the unique design of the NAT-MCH-FPGA, i.e. by reducing the slot count and thus saving costs or releasing slots for additional functionality.
Mobile World Congress - MWC, (February 27. - March 01.), Barcelona, Spain
It is our great honour to invite you to the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (Feb. 27 - March 01.).
Discover with N.A.T. the new opportunities for wireless applications by building a communication solution based on MicroTCA. N.A.T. satisfies your requirements such as
- Implementing standard and customized serial protocols to generate, distribute and analyse an enormous data traffic
- Increasing performance but decreasing power by adding sophisticated multicore PPC AMCs
- Increasing scalability
- Fast and low latency SRIO switching
N.A.T. goes beyond these demands by adding the latest Xilinx FPGA technology to the central system switch resource, the NAT-MCH, as a fully customizable device for switching, multiplexing and filtering.
This turns your MTCA system into a state-of-the-art solution:
- Switching or multiplexing CPRI™ or OBSAI in your LTE, LTE-A or WiMAX MTCA system
- Reducing costs e.g. by saving system real estate
- Cluster provider by grouping and bundling data streams to and from AMCs and external high-performance data sources
- Data stream analysis by high-density logic and advanced memory interfacing
- Point-to-point data connector by high-performance serial connectivity benefitting from standard backplanes
- Powerful data logging machine by adding e.g. ARM processor cores in the FPGA
Please schedule today a communication slot with Heiko Körte, Director of Sales and Marketing and/or Vollrath Dirksen, Strategic Business Development Manager in Barcelona: ina@nateurope.com or +49 228 965 864 0.
Join N.A.T. at booth 1B01/1B13 presenting this unique communication solution based on FPGA and multicore PrAMCs.
Your high performance application needs high bandwidth board interconnection and good cooling conditions?
You are looking for easy component replacement or hot swap function?
Built-in management functions are really appreciated?
N.A.T. presents the new intelligent Industrial PC (IPC) generation fulfilling these requirements: NATIVE-IPC. The NATIVE-IPC is a 19’, 4U IPC with 12 slots. It is based on the open standard MicroTCA with a passive, high bandwidth backplane offering up to 6 independent data paths. Please visit the MTCA chassis overview.
The built-in management function, NAT-MCH, combines a Management Controller and multiple Switches, PCIe and GbE or alternatively Serial Rapid IO and XAUI. It offers a remote management for 12 hot swappable boards, cooling units and power modules. The cooling unit consists of 3 radial fans. The specialty is the air filter replaceable from the rear without any tools! AMC computing and storage boards are easy pluggable from the rear without any tools either even in a running system. The 12 slots are configurable with one, two or more multi-core Intel or PowerPC boards i.e. NAMC-8569-CPU or NAMC-QorIQ-P40; cascadable, high-quality graphics boards; up to two storage boards per CPU board (each up to 1 TB) and AMC IO Cards such as AMCs with 8-AD, 2-DA Convertors and 24-Digital IO, DSP, FPGA, AFDX, ARINC 429, CAN, EtherCAT, or other analogue and digital IO boards. Even PMC Modules can be integrated with an AMC carrier board for PMC modules, NAMC-PMC.
Thus, beyond best thermic conditions, flexibility and management functions, the NATIVE-IPC offers key features distinguishing next generation of IPCs:
- scalability of performance due to various deployable Processor AMCs
- variety of input /output interfaces by adding different combinations of IO cards in AMC, PMC or other form factors
- multi-clustering allowing multiple PCIe or SRIO CPUs in one system
- high bandwidth based on one or multiple switched fabric technologies allowing multiple data transfers at a time via PCIe Gen 3 (32 Gb/s) or SRIO Gen 2 (up to 20Gb/s)
- redundancy via easy system upgrade
Integrated Systems Europe - ISE, (January 31. - February 02.), Amsterdam, Netherlands
AixSolve and NAT launch a modular Video Processing Backend Solution based on the MicroTCA standard at ISE.
Applicatons are digital signage, corporate, hospitality and consumer digital TV networks.
This Solution integrates AixSolve’s portfolio of encoders, decoders, transcoders and data inserters, N.A.T.’s NAT-MCH, a Management Controller and multiple Switch, and high performance processing (Intel Core i7) Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMC).
Customers benefit from this technology in the infotainment market and can satisfy their requirements such as:
- Flexibility: all real-time streams could be personalized ! with latest news, ticker messages, logo, advertisement, etc.
- Scalability: depending on the chassis size, from 6 up to 252 channels can be addressed with one system!
- Independence: MicroTCA and AMC are PICMG conform standards ensuring a vendor-independent system configuration!
- Maintenance: all AMCs are changeable in the running system ! without special tools !
- Redundancy: 99,999 % availability !
- High bandwidth: Gigabit Ethernet enables high performance communication
- Expert Knowledge: N.A.T. as PICMG member belongs to the leading edge experts of the international MicroTCA development.
Join AixSolve at booth 3D132. Please email us to get the invitation code or detailed information about the system.
For more information about AixSolve, please visit www.aixsolve.de.
About Integrated Systems Europe:
Launched in 2004, ISE is Europe’s largest tradeshow for the professional AV and electronic systems industry. ISE 2012 will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2012, and is expected to draw over 750 exhibitors and more than 35,000 attendees to its Amsterdam RAI location. The event is a joint venture of the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) and InfoComm International®. For further information, please visit: www.iseurope.org.
About the PICMG standards MicroTCA and AMC:
Founded in 1994, PICMG's original mission was to extend the PCI standard, for use in non-traditional computer markets such as Industrial Automation and (Tele-) communication. Beyond this, PICMG has continued to evolve resulting in a series of specifications that include for example AdvancedMC™. PICMG's purpose is to offer equipment vendors common specifications, thereby increasing availability and reducing costs and time to market. For further information, please visit www.picmg.com.
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The German companies N.A.T. and Signalion present at the Advanced TCA Summit in San Jose, CA (2011, 1-2. Nov.) the world’s first MTCA system consisting of scalable computing and scalable RF processing power for applications such as LTE, WiMAX etc..
N.A.T.’s MCH enables the communication between a scalable cluster of digital processing power and a scalable cluster of Signalion’s AMC-SRRM RF cards.
The extended MCH supports now CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface) or customized serial high bandwidth protocols to providing the necessary infrastructure for combining both the scalable power of digital signal processing as well as RF processing for MIMO up to 8 RF channels and beyond. This concept is based on a standard backplane and is characterized by its extremely high bandwidth of up to 20Gb/s compared with other technologies such as PXI.
“Our proven AMC-SRRM AMC radio card is designed for scalable MIMO RF processing with 8 and more radio channels that are required for beamforming in LTE and LTE-A. Signalion and N.A.T. developed a concept realized in the novel MCH by N.A.T. that particularly simplifies the integration of MIMO systems for LTE and LTE-A”, says Signalion’s product manager René Nüßgen.
“By offering now SFP+ interfaces to provide CPRI and customized protocols, the NAT-MCH enables µTCA for applications where the standard protocols such as PCIe and SRIo reach their limitations. These new features are realized via a FPGA based infrastructure resource on the HUB module. Together with the SRRM card of Signalion, N.A.T. provides a Software Defined Radio platform for applications such as LTE”, says Heiko Körte, Sales and Marketing Director of N.A.T..
The annual Career Day at the University for Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (09.11.2011) was as usual a good opportunity to get in contact with students applying for Bachelor or Master Thesis focusing on telecommunication, embedded computing or software engineering and/or looking forward to start their career at N.A.T..
N.A.T. emphasizes the importance of this recruiting day with the possibility to speak directly with the Director of Sales and Marketing, Heiko Körte who said "we had a lot of great discussions with students and giving them a sneak preview of what it means to be a software or hardware engineer at N.A.T. ; it's always a pleasure to speak with ambitioned persons and invite them for a further interview to N.A.T.'s headquarters in Bonn."
The strong relationship with the University is significant to N.A.T. to recruit young engineers because writing a thesis at N.A.T. is an ideal "mutual fit" assessment – the students get to know the engineering business, N.A.T. also gets to know the students.
If you missed the Career Day, the best way to apply is to send us your application to
N.A.T. GmbH
Heiko Körte
Konrad-Zuse-Platz 9
53227 Bonn
ATCA Summit (Nov. 1-2), San Jose, California
“Look to the future: LTE…deep packet inspection…multicores…network acceleration…cloud computing…enterprise systems…unified architectures”! is the summit slogan of 2011.
Look to the future together with N.A.T. and its MTCA based LTE Concept: the base system is made of a standard NATIVEproduct including N.A.T.’s well-known MCH, the NAMC-QorIQ-P40-V6, an octal-core PrAMC with Virtex-6 FPGA and Signalion’sAMC-SRRM which is a full RF transceiver in AMC form factor.
The other application shown is the YAVE Test System for requirement management, test definition, test management, automatic test run, control and evaluation. Together with our customer FTI, this system is designed to deliver an integrated test verification environment based on open MicroTCA and AMC standards as used in the avionics industry.
Learn more about the flexibility of a multi-cluster system with hot swap function, the scalability of performance due to various deployable Processor AMCs, the variety of input /output interfaces by adding different combinations of IO cards in AMC, PMC or other form factors, the high bandwidth using PCIe Gen3 or SRIO Gen2 or redundancy via easy system upgrade. Talk to us… we care.
N.A.T. simplifies the development of customized Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) and Rear Transition Modules (RTM) for MTCA.4 systems by providing the NAMC-EXT-RTM, an extender based on AMC format.
MTCA.4 is the latest open standard initiated by physical institutes with applications such as particle physics. The usability of double or mid-size AMCs and RTMs increases the available board space by 4 times compared with a MTCA system consisting just of single, mid-size AMCs.
N.A.T.’s NAMC-EXT-RTM-F and NAMC-EXTRTM-F-PS are passive extenders in double width for debugging MTCA.4 systems. The NAMC-EXT-RTM-R is the corresponding extender for debugging RTMs. The NAMC-EXT-RTM-F/-PS enables the user to access the double width AMC modules while the NAMC-EXT-RTM-R provides access to RTMs under test from both sides. The extenders support all fabrics as specified by the AMC.0 - AMC.4 and the additional I/O connector defined by the MicroTCA.4 specifications.
Key features are
- Easy signal access to the front and rear side of an AMC module from outside the chassis
- Voltage and current measurement of management and payload power
- Test points for soldering additional cables to measure all AMC signals
- Test points for JTAG interface
A further reason for migrating from ATCA market to MTCA.4 market is the availability of next generation switches with up to 30 Gb/s such as NAT-MCH PCIe Gen 3. N.A.T.’s powerful MCH supports both AMC modules with rear transition modules and control of separate cooling units for subrack cooling according to MTCA.4 RC 1.1.
->Thus MTCA.4 can now be considered for applications in the industrial automation market.
For more details about NAT-EXT-RTM, please visit http://www.nateurope.com/products/amc/namc-ext-rtm.htm.N.A.T. presents the NAMC-PMC, an AMC-Carrier for PCI Mezzanine Cards (PMC) modules. Applications can now benefit from the reliability and bandwidth of a MTCA system as well as from the cost efficiency and large variety of standard PMCs with low cost interfaces such as input/output (IO).
The single-width, mid- or full-size Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) carries one PMC module and is compatible with MTCA systems modified with special card guides. Thus, it is an ideal product to migrate from cPCI or PMC based systems to the new and open standard MTCA.
Key features are:
• Usage of standard off-the-shelf PMC boards in MTCA environments
• Deployment of a rich variety of available PMC modules
• Extention of PMC product life cycle
For more information about NAMC-PMC, please visit http://www.nateurope.com/products/amc/namc-pmc.htm.
Today's applications take advantage from the deliberate choice of software and hardware platforms to realize an effective adoption and optimization of virtualization on multicore AMCs. Hypervisors leverage embedded virtualization using multiple OS, real-time operating system (RTOS) and general purpose OS, cooperatively. Embedded Systems can be consolidated by replacing multiple boards with a single one. The aim is to improve scalability and reliability by benefitting of the BSPs supporting multi-core technologies such as symmetric multi-processing (SMP), asymmetric multi-processing (AMP), or a mixture of both. SMP is the best choice expecting effective load-balance of parallel workloads and suitable for applications needing to share large amount of data with low latency. AMP is considered for redundant systems needing high availability.
N.A.T.'s BSP selection gives customers the flexibility to choose their appropriate RTOS/OS based on e.g. resource-, interrupt-, task schedule, time-, data-management or application area. VxWorks could be suitable for solutions in areas such as Digital Living, Embedded Virtualization and Mobile Network Infrastructure. OSE is optimized for complex distributed systems that require the utmost in availability and reliability as often required in the telecommunication market. Embedded systems implemented in the Automotive, Industrial, Medical, Security and Defense market benefit e.g. from QNX as full-featured and robust RTOS. Depending on the system requirements N.A.T.'s own OS, OK1-M, can be an alternative. If security, reliability without license fee and real-time supply matters, N.A.T. supports Linux.
Nonetheless which RTOS or OS is preferred, N.A.T.'s multicore experts support customers in choosing and implementing the best combination of VxWorks, Linux, OSE, OK1-M and QNX on a Processor AMC e.g. out of the NAMC-QorIQ-family.
For example the NAMC-QorIQ-P40 AMCs are equipped with eight e500mc cores operating at frequencies with up to 1.5 GHz and feature embedded hypervisor technology. One hardware choice to apply the processing flexibility is the NAMC-QorIQ-P40-ECO which is ideally suited for price sensitive applications requiring strong processor capacity, low power consumption with limited need of memory. The NAMC-QorIQ-P40 targets telecommunication applications requiring ITDM support realized via the on-board Lattice FPGA. Additionally, the NAMC-QorIQ-P4080-V6 offers a Xilinx's Virtex-6 FPGA with 95% free FPGA capacity for advanced communication applications such as digital signal processing, control, data transfer requiring customized on-board information. All three boards are now available as single-width, mid- or full-size AMCs. Talk to us…we care.
The harmony of future orientated technology and environmental requirements have always been important factors for product development at N.A.T..
The new company headquarters are built in keeping with these guidelines and actively contributes to the environment: a low-energy building, cooled and heated by natural groundwater resources.
During the past 21 years N.A.T. has been successfully growing, making the old office space in Sankt Augustin increasingly inadequate for the constantly growing number of employees.The new headquarters provide plenty of space for the NAT team and reserve sufficient space for future expansion. The new building supports N.A.T.'s destinctive character of improving steadily the efficiency of the daily work flow and encuraging continuously our innovations in communication.
Please note the new postal address as well as telephone and fax numbers:
N.A.T. GmbH, Konrad-Zuse-Platz 9, 53227 Bonn, Germany
Fon: +49 228 965 864 0
Fax: +49 228 965 864 10
All other details such as e-mail addresses, URLs, phone extensions, etc. remain unchanged. As the old offices in Sankt Augstin are closed now we appreciate your forwarding our new address and contact information within your organization.
Compared with the first Generation of PCI Express (PCIe) switch devices, PCIe Gen3 offers almost four times as much bandwidth.
PCIe Gen 3 with 7.85 Gbaud highly increases the per-lane throughput of PCIe Gen2 with up to 5 Gbaud and PCIe Gen1 with 2,5 Gbaud. This allows a total throughput of 31,4 Gb/s with 4 lanes. The N.A.T. PCIe Gen3 hub module is a single chip solution without any bottle neck between multiple switches on the hub module supporting 12 AMCs.
Using this new and powerful chip means benefitting of :
- cut-through mode support: reduced Latency (138ns between symmetric x4 Ports, 132ns for x8)
- up to 6 Virtual switches (clustering)
- increased throughput (supports 2,5Gbaud/s, 5Gbaud/s and 8Gbaud/s)
- dynamic speed negotiation
- full line rate on all ports
- non-Blocking crossbar switch
- read PacingTM (Intelligent bandwidth allocation)
- multicast
The NAT-MCH as central switching and management resource for any MicroTCA system supports 12 AMC slots with 4 lanes. Its firmware fully supports redundant environments as well as load sharing with multiple power modules.
The NAT-MCH is offered with different front plates compliant to MTCA.0, MTCA.1 and MTCA.4 standard.
The YAVE Basic Test System by FTI delivers an integrated test verification environment for requirement management, test definition, test management, automatic test run, control and evaluation. Based on the open MicroTCA and AMC standards, the stand alone test system can meet requirements for remote management, maintenance, alarms, hot swap and redundancy. The high bandwidth of MicroTCA systems is based on one or multiple switched fabric technologies, which allow multiple data transfers at a time. Each can be up to 20Gb/s (PCIexpress Generation 2, Serial Rapid I/O Generation 2). The key software components of the YAVE (Your Advanced Verification Environment) Basic Test System are:
- Integrated Test Environment (ITE)
- Test case definition using Check Case Definition Language (CCDL)
- System configuration based on standardized Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
- Integrated Real-time Environment (RTE)
The system consists of the following elements:
- 19’ rack mountable MicroTCA chassis (4U) with up to two 600/900 Watt AC Power Modules
- NAT-MCH combining Management Controller and Switches:
- offering PCI Express and GbE switching (alternatively Serial Rapid IO, XAUI)
- supporting remote management for 12 AMCs, cooling units and power modules
- multi-clustering allowing multiple PCIexpress CPUs in one system
- AMC Processor Boards pluggable from the rear:
- two optional more Multi-Core Intel AMCs running RT-Linux and Gamma
- optional MultiCore PowerPC AMCs i.e. NAMC-8569-CPU or NAMC-QorIQ-P40
- optional EtherCAT-Master software
- AMC IO Cards pluggable from the rear:
- cascadable, high-quality graphics AMCs and two or more AMC-SATA (up to 1 TB)
- AMC with 8-Analogue/Digital, 2 Digital/Analogue Convertors and 24 Digital IO
- NAMC-PMC – an AMC carrier board for PMC modules
- optional AFDX, ARINC, EtherCAT-Slave, other analogue and digital IO AMCs
- optional adaption of PCI, cPCI and VME-IO cards
The distinctions of this test environment based on MicroTCA are
- flexibility of a multi-cluster system with hot swap function
- scalability of performance due to various deployable Processor AMCs
- variety of input /output interphases by adding different combinations of IO cards in AMC, PMC or other form factors
- high bandwidth using PCI Express Generation 2 or SRIO Generation 2
- redundancy via easy system upgrade
The YAVE Basic Test System is a customization based on N.A.T.’s AMC / MicroTCA NATIVE (N.A.T.InnoVation Enabler) product line. The 4U MicroTCA system is also available with a front panel with integrated touch panel running NATview – an easy to use visualization tool for debugging MicroTCA systems.
NAT releases NATview 2.2, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Key Features of NATview 2.2:
- MCH Scanner - find MicroTCA system IP address in a network
- Backplane Viewer - show connection between MCH and AMC resp. AMC and AMC.
- System Dump – collect system information easy as 1-2-3 with a single mouse click.
NATview is now available: contact us and get a free download (System requirements: Java etc.).Technology Day (June, 29.), Munich, Germany
Applied Science - a (tele-) communication application based on MTCA
Vollrath Dirksen will present an application example based on MTCA visualizing its key features such as high performance, scalability and flexibility. The special communication structure of this system is based on N.A.T.'s Carrier Hub offering a fabric switch module either with PCIexpress Generation 2, Serial Rapid IO Generation 2 or 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
This solution was developed by N.A.T. as part of the network project "Software Platform Embedded Systems 2020" – SPES 2020 for short – launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as a strategic funding project in the area of embedded systems.
The benefit of this common project of leading companies in the embedded market is to turn this recent MTCA architecture into ready-to-use and easy-to-deploy systems featuring a standardized system management (NAT-MCH). The project emphasizes the importance of the MTCA standard as market-leading technology for any communication environments. The success story is based on the cross-company network approach turning theory in deployed soft-and hardware knowledge in applied science.
Learn more about MTCA - the basics, key features and its deployment in your application / market.
We are looking forward to meeting you - write me an email: ina@nateurope.com for free registration.
Boards & Solutions Conference (May, 12.), Munich, Germany
Do you need more CPU power in AMC form factor? Are you looking for Multicore?
Applications like base-station radio network controllers (RNCs), longterm evolution (LTE) and general-purpose embedded computing systems in the networking, telecom/datacom, wireless infrastructure, military and aerospace markets need high performance CPUs and FPGAs.
Until now such systems are built by a combination of AMCs with Dual-Core-CPUs and AMCs with high performance FPGAs. Now, the Freescale QorIQ family (NAMC-QorIQ-P40) offers up to 8 PowerPC Cores including high performance RISC engines for communications on one chip. As today’s applications need even more processing power, FPGAs are required.
Latest AMC boards are shown combining Multi-Core CPUs with high performance FPGA reducing the number of boards to build even higher dense MicroTCA and ATCA systems.
We are looking forward to meeting you - Join us.
AEROSPACE TESTING 2011 (Apr., 05.-07.), Hamburg, Germany
FTI will exhibit in Hall B4, Booth M35 launching their latest test development named YAVE Basic Test System based on a MicroTCA system by N.A.T.. From the broad range of topologies the combination of PCIexpress, SATA and GbE was ideal for YAVE. The flexibility, scalability and high bandwidth plus multiple sources of all components and easy upgrade to a redundant system are the key differentiators of the deployed hardware platform.
The key features are:
- multi-cluster system (scalable processor performance)
- customized front panel
- cards pluggable from the rear
- redundancy,
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Tuesday, 5th: schedule a meeting with Vollrath Dirksen (Strategic Business Development, N.A.T.) and/or join the Ground Testing Seminar "Real-time System Simulators" of Johannes Kremp (Head of Test Systems, FTI).
Hannover Messe (Apr., 04.-08.), Hannover, Germany
esd electronic system design features N.A.T. from 04.-08. April 2011 at the Hannover Messe (hall9, booth D13). Under the motto "Smart Efficiency", esd will present a live demo of an intelligent MTCA solution optimizing process efficiency.
The N.A.T. Innovation Enabler, a NATIVE-Starter consisting of
- a MCTA table top chassis
- full-size MTCA Carrier Hub, NAT-MCH
- a Core II Duo processor AMC and
- a combined graphic board and SATA AMC
enables the interaction of esd’s four channel AMC-CAN module, AMC-CAN4, and the analog/digital and digital/analog converter AMC-ADIO24, (N.A.T. part number NAMC-8AD-2DA-24DIO). This converter is characterized by eight analog digital and two digital analog channels with 16-bit resolution, 200 kHz sampling rate as well as 24 digital IOs.
The PCIexpress-Switch-Topology of the NAT-MCH guarantees highest performance of DMA transfers between multiple IO cards and the CPU’s main memory.VIRTUAL CONFERENCE online,
find out if the latest trends about MicroTCA and AMC would be the right choice for your upcoming projects or latest developments. Join the FREE Virtual Conference and learn more about the following topics:
- MicroTCA.4 – closing the gap between ATCA and MicroTCA
- NATView visualizes graphically MicroTCA inventory, backplane connections, sensors, alarms and FRU data
- Better clock distribution, trigger signals and other functions with MicroTCA.4
- QorIQ Processors on AdvancedMCs™ – a perfect fit
EMBEDDED WORLD (March, 01.-03.), Nuremberg, Germany
The show is the world's biggest exhibition and meeting-place of the international embedded community. This year N.A.T. is represented by powerBridge and other partners. Join us in hall12-booth 521 or click here to see where you can meet N.A.T. at Embedded World 2011. We are looking forward to welcome you.
High-End Communications Processor AdvancedMC Board based on octal-core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and Virtex-6 FPGA
N.A.T. presents the market’s most powerful single-width AMC processor board designed around the new octal core Freescale QorIQ P4080 and Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA.
The single-width AMC board, NAMC-QorIQ-P40, combines the best of two worlds: Freescale’s octal PowerPC cores (e500) and Xilinx’s Virtex-6 FPGA satisfying the constantly growing demand for high bandwidth and high performance in today’s protocol processing applications,
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The show is a time of great excitement for all connected with the mobile industry, infrastructure providers as well as operators. N.A.T. will take the opportunity together with NRW.International to present the "Mobile Power of Germany" in this exclusive enironment to emphasize its slogan "innovation in communication".
2011 Conference Topics
• LTE-Solution
N.A.T. presents in their NATIVE Mobile Communication solution based on MicroTCA chassis, NAT-MicroTCA Carrier Hub (NAT-MCH) and octal core NAMC-QorIQ-P40 in combination with Virtex-V6 two concepts for WiMAX/LTE-Solutions based on MTCA standard.
One system provides the AMC-3C87F3-GPS, a member of Commagility’s high performance AMC boards combining TI-DSP and Virtex-FPGA with GPS timing synchronization.
Key features are
- triple SFP sockets supporting CPRI/OBSAI antenna interfaces to provide direct connection to Remote Radio Heads (RRH) for 3 sector operation,
- timing synchronization provided by an integrated GPS receiver with an optional OCXO for improved holdover performance
The other solution is based on Signalion’s AMC-SRRM which is a full RF transceiver in AMC form factor for various wireless applications such as WiMAX or LTE usable in any MTCA system.
Highlights are
- supported wide frequency range from 200MHz to 2.7GHz @ 1.25 to 20MHz bandwidth,
- modulation schemes up to 64QAM which enable data rate up to 150 Mbps,
- programmable FPGA included to support various applications and interfaces (GigE, SRIO, PCIe, XAUI, CPRI/OBSAI);
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• NAT-MCH SRIO Gen2
with the distinctive feature of doubled bandwidth of SRIO because it supports the second generation of SRIO switch devices with up to 20GB/s.
• All-IP-Legacy-Gateway
Based on the latest multicore, multi-network QorIQ processors combined with highest performance Virtex-6 offering gateways between legacy and IP networks
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the scalable and flexible product family named NAMC-MPX-Family.
It is dedicated to embedded markets such as industrial controls, automation, (tele-) communication, defense&aerospace and medical area.
The bandwidth of the new MPX-Family covers on-board processors from Freescale®
- low-end Power QUICC II Pro MPC8349 @667MHz (NAMC-MPX-PQIIP-8349)
- mid-scale Power QUICC III MPC8548 @1.3GHz (NAMC-MPX-PQIII-8548)
- high-end single core QorIQ™ P1011 @533-800MHz (NAMC-MPX-QorIQ-P1011)
- high-end dual core QorIQ™ P2020 @1.2GHz (NAMC-MPX-QorIQ-P2020)
N.A.T. offers also an Intel® Atom™ Processor E600 (NAMC-MPX-Atom-E600) to satisfy the different addictions, performance or application requirements.
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The N.A.T. MTCA Concept is the latest overview of the dedicated MTCA product range highlighting its multiple application areas e.g. medical, research, (tele-)communication, defense&aerospace, automation, industrial controls, transportation, download your MTCA Concept.
N.A.T. as reliable partner follows a very conservative information policy regarding new products. N.A.T. takes the valid request of valued partners into consideration to get them informed as early as possible about new product developments. Therefore N.A.T. released a NEW PRODUCT NOTIFICATION POLICY with following levels:
Level 0: Early Product Notification
Level 1: Advanced Product Information
Level 2: Product Release Information
ATCA Summit (Nov., 09.-11), Santa Clara, California - Join us at booth #411.
The Sixth Annual ATCA Summit is the only US conference dedicated to these new standards that are revolutionizing telecom, storage, embedded, medical, mil/aerospace, and instrumentation businesses.This year the summit slogan is “The Right COTS Platform for Next-Generation Networks”. N.A.T.’s contribution to this is “double your bandwidth of PCIe and SRIO!" with N.A.T.'s MicroTCA Carrier Hub supporting PCIe and SRIO Gen2, transporting up to 20Gb/s !
With 20Gb/s and the up-coming definition of Rear Transition Modules for MicroTCA (MTCA.4), the performance gap between an ATCA and MTCA will be closed. For the development of such MTCA systems featuring rear I/O, N.A.T. presents the extender for AMC and RTM named NAMC-EXT-RTM-F or-R.
N.A.T. introduces 3 sophisticated MTCA systems designated to applications where engineers need to start right away with their development. Based on table top, xTCA and 1/2U chassis with according cooling and power units, the N.A.T. InnoVative Enabler, short NATIVE family, contains the N.A.T. MCH and carefully selected CPU and Graphic modules.
Listen to 2010 Summit Keynotes which will address the following topics:
- Development of high-performance systems using AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA
- Definition of power and cooling strategies
- Take advantage of technical advances such as multicore processors
- Design COTS-based military applications
- Meet the equipment needs of high-speed next-generation networks
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N.A.T. teams with Enea for integrated MicroTCA Platforms.
NAT-MCH and Enea Element Deliver High Availability and System Management Capabilities. Enea Element is a high-availability, standards-based middleware platform for building robust, highperformance applications that integrate hardware and system software components into a cohesive communications platform. Enea Element gives equipment makers the COTS middleware platform they need to rapidly deliver next generation communications systems while lowering costs, reducing risk and focusing development efforts on innovation and differentiation...... read more.
N.A.T. joins the RapidIO Trade Association
As express of our commitment to Serial Rapid I/O as one of the most advanced high speed communication technologies, N.A.T. has become an official member of the RapidIO Trade Association.
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