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MicroTCA
MicroTCA is a new open modular standard developed by the PICMG and complementary to the PICMG 3.0 Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA). Whereas AdvancedTCA is optimized for very high capacity applications, MicroTCA is designed to address cost sensitive and physically smaller applications with lower capacity and performance requirements.
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MicroTCA - Interview with Dr. Stephan Rupp and Irene HahnerA modular platform for high-end applications
MicroTCA preserves many of the important philosophies of AdvancedTCA, including basic interconnect topologies and management structure. MicroTCA has a primary purpose of serving as a platform for telecommunications and enterprise computer network equipment. Its secondary goal is to function as a high-performance system architecture for other demanding marketplaces like Medical, Military and Automation. By configuring highly diverse collections of AdvancedMCs in a MicroTCA Shelf, many different application architectures can be realized easily. The common elements defined by the MicroTCA standard are capable of interconnecting these AdvancedMCs in many interesting ways - powering and managing them, all at high efficiency and reasonable cost.
The design goals are your benefits
The PICMG MicroTCA specification was written with the following design goals in mind: