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Pixus Technologies, a supplier of backplane, enclosure, and embedded component solutions, now offers VME64x backplanes in high-power, pluggable, and standard versions.
VME64x (VME64 extensions) backplanes typically come in a 6U height. Pixus offers 6U VME64x backplanes in various slot sizes with power bugs above and below the slots. To meet VITA 1.7 Increased Current specification or high-power VME applications, Pixus also offers 6.5U high backplanes with extra power bugs on the bottom of the board. The backplanes feature automatic daisy chaining, chassis ground connections, and a 10-layer (typical) multilayer construction. They also have a utility connector for sense, fail, reset, and ground signals.
Another power option for VME-based systems is to use a pluggable 47-pin connector. These can be implement in vertical-mount backplanes parallel to the signal slots. Or, the PSU connectors can be incorporated in horizontal-mount backplanes, extending outside of the card cage in a 9U monolithic format. This is also a common configuration for CompactPCI SlimBox backplanes. Pixus offers 9U VME64x backplanes in the horizontal format in 2-8 slot sizes.
The Pixus Backplane Division also offers backplanes in OpenVPX, CompactPCI, PCIe, ATCA, and custom designs.