Check out a new feature newly loaded online at ElectronicsWeekly.com - Embedded technology: designers choose from the latest fabrics
As serial-fabric technologies become the limiting factor to system performance, he believes, designers will head to the laboratory and come through with the next-generation high-speed data-delivery system...
Among the points covered by the in-depth article are:
* Low-voltage swings and point-to-point transmission paths allow serial switched-fabric systems to extend data rates into the multi gigabit range.
* Switched-fabric architectures can adapt to system failures by routing data around defective paths or processing modules while repairs are made.
* Multiple serial-fabric communications options in board-level specifications may lead to industry fragmentation and product-interoperability issues.
It begins:
As high-performance embedded systems stretch the limits of technology, board-level interconnection strategies require constant updating to match soaring data-transfer requirements. Designers can choose from a series of evolving and sometimes competing fabric-technology standards to extend system performance and preserve budget constraints.Medical instrumentation, military systems, communications installations, and process automation are just a few areas in which rising bandwidth, increased processing requirements, and escalating application complexity continue to expand the fabric-technology envelope....
Read the full article - Embedded technology: designers choose from the latest fabrics
It is written by Warren Webb, Technical Editor at our sister site EDN.
(Pictured is the ATS1936 ATCA Switch Blade, which features separate base and fabric gigabit-
GbE networks plus three onboard AdvancedMC module sites.)
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