38 results about "Advanced Mezzanine Card" patented technology

Telecommunications computing apparatus and methods for performing deep packet inspection and other processing of data packets traversing high speed digital networks (15) such as the Internet. An apparatus embodiment of the present invention comprises a reconfigurable logic device (10); coupled to the reconfigurable logic device (10), means (11) for coupling the reconfigurable logic device (10) to an external digital network (15); and coupled to the reconfigurable logic device (10), an interface (16-19) for coupling the reconfigurable logic device (10) to at least one peripheral device (8) that is not part of said external digital network (15).

A subrack having a front side and a rear side, wherein the subrack is coupled to receive an Advanced Mezzanine Card module, the subrack includes a monolithic backplane having a first portion and second portion, where the first portion runs substantially along the front side and the second portion runs substantially along the rear side. A first slot is to receive the Advanced Mezzanine Card module inserted via the front side and connect the Advanced Mezzanine Card module directly to the second portion of the monolithic backplane. A second slot is to receive the Advanced Mezzanine Card module inserted via the rear side and connect the Advanced Mezzanine Card module directly to the first portion of the monolithic backplane. A virtual carrier manager, where the virtual carrier manager provides a control management function for the Advanced Mezzanine Card module, where the virtual carrier manager provides a central switching function for the Advanced Mezzanine Card module, and where the virtual carrier manager provides a power control function for the Advanced Mezzanine Card module.

The invention provides a boundary scanning system and a method based on high-performance computing communication framework. The system comprises a main master board, a business single board, a backboard, and a senior interlayer card module, further a JTAG controller equipped on the main master board for transmitting control information to business single board; a JTAG Grade I bridge equipped on the business single board for connecting JTAG equipment on the business single board; and a JTAG Grade II bridge equipped on the senior interlayer card module for connecting JTAG equipment on the senior interlayer card module.

A cage that is received with a Personal Computer (PC) enclosure in the same manner a peripheral can be received within the PC. The cage is provided with fans, circuitry, connectors and structural features to create a ATCA or MicroTCA type environment required for the operation of an AMC card. The cage features a lateral connector for connecting to the motherboard and transferring PCI-Express protocolized signals between the cage and the CPU. The cage also features means to receive and support an AMC card within the ATCA and MicroTCA environment created for it by the cage. In this configuration, the CPU can communicate with the AMC card using the PCI-Express interconnect protocol as if the AMC card is another peripheral I / O device. In this manner, an advanced form factor AMC card may be tested and used within a PC environment suitable only for conventional form factor expansion cards and peripheral I / O devices.

A method according to one embodiment may include providing a circuit board having a connector footprint including a plurality of electrical contacts and providing a mezzanine card including a first plurality of conductive traces on a first side of the mezzanine card. The method of this embodiment may also include providing a first wiring board disposed between at least a portion of the circuit board and at least a portion of the mezzanine card. The first wiring board may electrically couple at least a portion of the electrical contacts of the connector footprint to at least a portion of the conductive traces of the mezzanine card. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.

The invention discloses a power supply configuration method and a power supply configuration device. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring preset rated power of each advanced mezzanine card (AMC) and valid load of each power supply module for supplying power to the AMC from a database; determining and storing a power supply mapping relationship between the AMC and the power supply module based on predetermined rules according to the rated power and the valid load; and switching on a power supply switch between the AMC and the power supply module according to the stored power supply mapping relationship. By means of the technical scheme of the embodiment, the power supply module can ensure that each power supply channel is driven by enough power supply power before being enabled, the power supply module can realize intelligent power supply management of an AMC single board, the power supply module is ensured to supply as much power as possible to the AMC under maximum supplied power, the power supply module is ensured not to overload, the energy is saved, the method and the device are environmentally-friendly, and meanwhile, the service life of a power supply is prolonged.

The invention provides a realization method, a system and a clock function board for a system clock, wherein the realization method is as follows: by a first output enable clock terminal, the clock function board outputs a system clock signal to a first input clock terminal of at least one advanced mezzanine card (AMC); or the first output enable clock terminal is set in a high resistance state, by a second output enable clock terminal, the clock function board outputs the system clock signal to a second input clock terminal on at least one AMC; or the second output enable clock terminal is set in a high resistance state; when the two output enable clock terminals simultaneously output the system clocks, two sets of system clocks can be provided for the AMC; and when one of output enable clock terminals is set in a high resistance state, one set of the clock system can be provided for the AMC, thereby, one set or more than one set of system clock can be flexibly provided for the AMC.

The invention relates to a general platform system of uTCA hardware. The system is characterized in that: the main body is a chassis; two power supply modules, an Oring circuit module for power supply redundancy configuration, a rear panel, and a uTCA carrier hub (MCH) module, asynchronous communication control modules (AMC) and a fan radiating unit arranged in parallel on the rear panel are arranged in the chassis, wherein the power supply modules are common power supply modules and arranged on the exterior of the rear panel. The number of the AMC is 1 to 12; 12 full high-size AMC board cards can simultaneously run in parallel; and the rear panel is provided with hot plug control circuits which form one-to-one corresponding control relationships together with an MCH board block, AMC board blocks and the fan radiating unit respectively. A standard uTCA power supply board card is not adopted, and the common module power supply is adopted, so that the power supply management is simpler, difficulty and cost of developing a management level with low association with the system are reduced, double-MCH module master and slave backups are supported, the reliability is enhanced, 12 full configured full high-size advanced mezzanine card (AMC) modules are supported, and the capacity of the system is improved.

The invention discloses a joint test action group (JTAG) test system of a micro-telecommunication computing architecture, which comprises an external test unit, and main carrier hubs (MCH) and an advanced mezzanine card (AMC) of a micro-telecommunication computing architecture, wherein the external test unit is connected with the JTAG interfaces of the MCH and the AMC in a bus manner to serve as a main device master for testing the MCH and the AMC; the MCH serves as a master for testing the AMC or as a slave to be tested by the external test unit; and the AMC services as a slave to be tested by the current master. The invention can achieve connection between the selected master and the set slave and achieve slave test step by step without achieving JTAG switch module (JSM).

The present invention provides a method and a system of extending the micro telecom computing architecture (MicroTCA). Basic data interchange ports or extension data interchange ports (Fabric[X1][n]) of an MicroTCA carrier hub (MCH) are provided to an advanced mezzanine card (AMCm)for data interchange, and basic data interchange ports or extension data interchange ports (Fabric[X2][n]) are provided to an advanced mezzanine card (AMCm+p)for data interchange; wherein, the AMCm represents m AMCs, AMCm+p represents the (m+p)th AMC, X1 or X2 is one of the five data interchange ports A, D, E, F and G, X1 is not equal to X2, and n, m and p are any natural numbers. According to the present invention, compatibility of the MicroTCA system is improved and the extendibility of the MicroTCA system is greatly improved.

A card assembly is disclosed comprising a carrier host card, an interposer printed wiring board (PWB) situated between the carrier host card and a hosted card, wherein the carrier host card and the interposer printed wiring board (PWB) are configured to have a space there-between. The card assembly further comprising a customized front panel including a first cutout for the carrier host card and a second cutout for said hosted card.

The invention discloses a micro telecommunication and computation general hardware platform architecture (MicroTCA) system, which simplifies the complexity of power management of a PM on AMCs. The system comprises a first MicroTCA power module (PM) and more than one advanced mezzanine card (AMC), wherein the first power module PM comprises a 3.3V power control circuit, an AMC control unit and a 3.3V power control unit; the AMC control unit is used for detecting whether a corresponding AMC is stably inserted according to a PS1intersecting parallels port of each AMC, and enabling an enabling signal according to an AMC stable insertion signal command of a load management unit when the AMC is stably inserted; the 3.3V power control unit controls the 3.3V power control circuit according to the enabling signal when the AMC is stably inserted; and the 3.3V power control circuit is used for providing a 3.3V power supply for the AMC according to control of the 3.3V power control unit. Simultaneously, the invention provides a power management device and a power control method for the MicroTCA system.

The invention discloses a miniature telecommunications and computing common hardware platform architecture Micro TCA system, which comprises a swapping control module and a plurality of advanced mezzanie cards. In the advanced mezzanie cards, at least two advanced mezzanie cards are connected with each other by an advanced mezzanie cards interconnection channel. The invention also discloses a method for managing the Micro TCA system. By adopting the system and the method, one advanced mezzanie card can be connected with one or a plurality of advanced mezzanie cards by the advanced mezzanie cards interconnection channel to form one or a plurality of groups of substracts, thereby providing a redundant intelligent platform management bus channel for the advanced mezzanine cards. Therefore, the redundant intelligent platform management bus channel can be selected for communication of the advanced mezzanine cards and the swapping control module.

A card assembly is disclosed comprising a carrier host card, an interposer printed wiring board (PWB) situated between the carrier host card and a hosted card, wherein the carrier host card and the interposer printed wiring board (PWB) are configured to have a space there-between. The card assembly further comprising a customized front panel including a first cutout for the carrier host card and a second cutout for said hosted card.

The invention relates to a telecommunication-level universal hardware platform, in particular to a micro telecom computing architecture (TCA) standard-based media server. In the media server, two paths of alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) power are fixed on a case; the power is converted by a power module and then provided to an Oring circuit on a back panel to output 12V power to a load power system and a DC-DC power module; the power module outputs 3.3V power to a management power system; the load power system comprises 4 to 16 load power modules, and outputs 12V power to a microTCA carrier hub (MCH), an advanced mezzanine card (AMC) and a radiating fan; and the management power system comprises 2 to 14 management power modules, and outputs 3.3V power to the MCH and the AMC. In the media server, a microTCA standard power module is cancelled, a normal power module is used, and the management system is electrified by the MCH, so that the complexity and the production cost for power supply of the system are reduced; and a hot-plug circuit is arranged on the back panel, so that a hot-plug function is realized.

The invention discloses an MCMC [MicroTCA (Micro Telecom Computing Architecture) Carrier Management Controller], and belongs to the field of a computer. The MCMC comprises an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip, wherein the FPGA chip comprises an embedded processor which is used for carrying out data processing and a management module controller, the FPGA chip is arranged on an MCH (MicroTCA Carrier Hub) board, the embedded processor is electrically connected with a main processor of the MCH board, and the management module controller is respectively and electrically connected with an MMC (Module Management Controller) on an AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) and an EMMC (Enhanced Module Management Controller) on a power supply card. According to the MCMC disclosed by the invention, the FPGA chip is adopted as the MCMC, the embedded processor and the management module controller are arranged in the FPGA chip, main information processing of the MCMC is completed by the embedded processor, the computing speed of the embedded processor in the FPGA chip is high, and thus running and processing speeds of the MCMC are ensured; the area of the MCMC is reduced as the embedded processor is in an embedded type.

The invention provides a 1U system design method based on MicroTCA standard, wherein a backboard is in horizontal arrangement and provides the physical connection based on the high speed serial technology between the high class interlayer card, and backboard is equipped with a extra strong pipe switching module, a enlargement module controller and an x86 COM-EXPRESS module. The project of the invention solves the problem of the system performance and the price under the premise which perfectly accords with the MicroTCA module interconnecting criterion with good applying foreground.

The invention provides a method for extending commutative controller (MCH), MCH, a method for extending Micro Telecom Calculation Architecture (Micro TCA) and a Micro TCA system. A connecting part is set on the second layer of a dual-width MCH, wherein, the connecting part is connected to the function module of the MCH and provides connecting signal; as the Micro TCA system is being extended, a source module is to be extended based on the extension of the MCH. The method can be used for supporting more than 12 advanced mezzanine cards, as well as for realizing dual-Tongue function on one Tongue without using the MCH connecter in order to save cost. Thus, the extension of the MicroTCA system can be realized.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a MicroTCA (micro telecom computing architecture) system which at least comprises a first subregion, a second subregion and a base unit, wherein the first subregion consists of a first power supply unit and at least one AMC (advanced mezzanine card); the second subregion consists of a second power supply unit and at least one AMC; the AMC in the first subregion is supplied with power by the first power supply unit; the AMC in the second subregion is supplied with power by the second power supply unit; the first subregion and the second subregion share the base unit; and the base unit is supplied with power by the first power supply unit and the second power supply unit. In the embodiment of the invention, the MicroTCA system is divided into multiple subregions, the AMC in each subregion utilizes respective power supply module for power supply, all power supply modules supply power to the base unit, and the multiple subregions share the base unit, therefore, the number of the base units can be reduced, and the production cost is lowered; and information interaction and synchronization among multiple plates are not needed, thus simplifying management of power supply modules and other modules, and lowering the complexity for scheme realization.

The invention relates to an AMC (advanced mezzanine card) board card structure based on a MicroTCA (telecom and computing architecture) standard and a connection type thereof. The AMC board card structure comprises AMC board cards and an MCH (metal ceramics heater) board card which are arranged on a MicroTCA standard system back plate, and is characterized in that each AMC board card is also provided with an SRIO (serial rapid input / output) switch chip, an MMC (multi media card) chip and DSP (digital signal processing) chips, wherein the SRIO switch chip comprises data processing channels and an AMC board card interconnection channel, the number of the data processing channels is the same as that of the DSP chips, the data processing channels are connected with the DSP chips, and the AMC board card interconnection channel is connected to the back plate through an AMC connector; the MMC chip adopts an ARM (advanced RISC machines) microcontroller chip, and the ARM microcontroller chip is connected with an MCH board card through an IPMI (intelligent platform management interface); and the DSP chip is connected to the ARM microcontroller chip through a UART (universal asynchronous receiver / transmitter). Each AMC board card respectively establishes interconnection topologies with the AMC board cards, same in quantity, positioned on the two sides of each AMC board card through the SRIO switch chip, so that software and hardware pressures concentrated on the MCH can be directly scattered to each AMC board card, further the resource space of the MCH can be saved and the resource allocation of the system can be balanced; meanwhile, the AMC board cards can be flexibly configured, the bandwidth can be increased and decreased timely, and the stability and reliability of the system and the flexibility of the configuration can be enhanced, thus the AMC board card is applied to the design requirements of telecommunication equipment in a high-definition era.

The invention provides a method for extending commutative controller (MCH), MCH, a method for extending Micro Telecom Calculation Architecture (Micro TCA) and a Micro TCA system. A connecting part is set on the second layer of a dual-width MCH, wherein, the connecting part is connected to the function module of the MCH and provides connecting signal; as the Micro TCA system is being extended, a source module is to be extended based on the extension of the MCH. The method can be used for supporting more than 12 advanced mezzanine cards, as well as for realizing dual-Tongue function on one Tongue without using the MCH connecter in order to save cost. Thus, the extension of the MicroTCA system can be realized.

The invention provides a method, device and ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) carrier board for dynamically allocating power to an AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card), aiming at providing a strategy for dynamically allocating the power to a system which adopts the AMC with various rated powers, wherein the method comprises a step of monitoring the actual power obtained by the AMC, a step of comparing the actual power obtained by the AMC with the rated power of the AMC and a step of adjusting an actual power value allocated to the AMC for the enablement of the AMC under the condition that the actual power allocated to the AMC is less than the rated power of the AMC; if the system is an ATCA system, when the AMC is plugged into the ATCA carrier board for the first time, a power detection module detects the total power consumption of the ATCA carrier board and the AMC and an IPMC (Intelligent Platform Management Controller) adjusts the power of the ATCA carrier board according to the total power consumption; and when the ATCA carrier board and the AMC are located in a normal working state, the power monitoring module monitors the powers of the AMC and the ATCA carrier board in real time for the realization of intelligent electricity supply management on the ATCA carrier board. With the adoption of the ATCA carrier board and the electricity power allocation method of the AMC, the powering-on debugging of the ATCA carrier board and the AMC and the exertion of the maximum performance of the system are facilitated.

The invention discloses a rack management controller of a micro-telecommunication computing architecture, which belongs to the field of computers. The controller includes a field programmable gate array chip, and the field programmable gate array chip includes: an embedded processor for data processing and a management module controller, and the field programmable gate array is provided in a micro-telecom computer. On the switch board of the architecture, the embedded processor is electrically connected to the main processor of the switch board, and the management module controller is respectively connected with the module management controller on the advanced mezzanine card and the enhanced module management controller on the power supply card. The controller is electrically connected. The invention adopts the FPGA chip as the MCMC, and sets the embedded processor and the management module controller in the FPGA chip. Since the main information processing of the MCMC is completed by the embedded processor, and the embedded processor in the FPGA has a high operation rate, Thus, the running and processing speed of MCMC is guaranteed; since the processor is embedded, the area of ​​MCMC is also reduced.

The invention discloses a power supply configuration method and a power supply configuration device. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring preset rated power of each advanced mezzanine card (AMC) and valid load of each power supply module for supplying power to the AMC from a database; determining and storing a power supply mapping relationship between the AMC and the power supply module based on predetermined rules according to the rated power and the valid load; and switching on a power supply switch between the AMC and the power supply module according to the stored power supply mapping relationship. By means of the technical scheme of the embodiment, the power supply module can ensure that each power supply channel is driven by enough power supply power before being enabled, the power supply module can realize intelligent power supply management of an AMC single board, the power supply module is ensured to supply as much power as possible to the AMC under maximum supplied power, the power supply module is ensured not to overload, the energy is saved, the method and the device are environmentally-friendly, and meanwhile, the service life of a power supply is prolonged.

The invention discloses a joint test action group (JTAG) test system of a micro-telecommunication computing architecture, which comprises an external test unit, and main carrier hubs (MCH) and an advanced mezzanine card (AMC) of a micro-telecommunication computing architecture, wherein the external test unit is connected with the JTAG interfaces of the MCH and the AMC in a bus manner to serve as a main device master for testing the MCH and the AMC; the MCH serves as a master for testing the AMC or as a slave to be tested by the external test unit; and the AMC services as a slave to be tested by the current master. The invention can achieve connection between the selected master and the set slave and achieve slave test step by step without achieving JTAG switch module (JSM).

The present invention discloses a single plate firmware loading method. The method comprises steps of sending data of joint test action group (JTAG) to a module manager controller (MMC) in the advanced Mezzanine card (AMC) by a Micro TCA carrier manager controller in a Micro TCA carrier hub (MCH);lading the JTAG data on the single plate firmware to be loaded by using simulated JTAG loading signals by the MMC. The present invention also discloses a system and a device for loading single plate firmware Occupation resources is small and the cost is low in the ITAG loading process, because AMC isnot need for providing JTAG ports signals.