LITTLETON, MA – March 11, 2011 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading system integrator of rugged deployed integrated electronics for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, has announced the newest addition to its industry-leading Hybricon® family of high performance OpenVPX™ backplanes. The new 024-901-06-CEN1-01 is a 3U, 6-slot VPX REDI (VITA 48) backplane. It speeds and simplifies the integration of high performance open standards based rugged deployed subsystems based on the popular VPX and OpenVPX bus standards.
“Our family of Hybricon OpenVPX backplanes offers the industry’s highest performance 6.25 Gbaud backplanes to support accelerating adoption of OpenVPX for development and deployment.” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems group.
OpenVPX defines a set of system profiles to simplify the selection of interoperable system components.
OpenVPX profiles supported by the 024-901-06-CEN1-01 include:
- Backplane Profile: BKP3-CEN06-15.2.2-3
- Payload Slot Profile: SLT3-PAY-1F2F2U-14.2.2
- Payload Module Profile: MOD3-PAY-1F2F2U-16.2.2-(all)
- Switch Slot Profile: SLT3-SWH-6F6U-14.4.1
- Switch Module Profile: MOD3-SWH-6F6U-16.4.1-(all)
This high performance small form factor backplane supports data rates up to 6.25 Gbaud per VITA 68. It features a 1” pitch (7-slots wide), 5 payload slots, a data & control switch slot, star fabric topology from payload slots to the switch slot for both the data plane and control plane, and an expansion plane between the payload slots.
Hybricon brand Backplane Features Include:
- VITA 65 OpenVPX compliant backplanes
- VITA 46/VITA 48 VPX-REDI compliant
- VITA 46.10 RTM connectors
- Multiple backplane profiles available
- Signal Integrity compliant per VITA 68, up to 6.25 Gbaud
- High performance 6.25 Gbaud backplanes utilize – 2 level backdrill for high performance compatible with Serial RapidIO (SRIO) gen 2 and PCI Express (PCIe) gen 2 on data plane fabric, and 5 Gbaud operation on expansion plane fabric
- Optional rear transition connectors (provided standard)
- Optional conformal coating
- Keying and alignment per ANSI/VITA 65 and ANSI/VITA 46.0
- Non-Volatile Memory Read Only (NVMRO) signal (jumper selectable)
- Optional battery backup input, jumperable to +3.3V
- SYSCON selectable – set to 1st VPX slot as default
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems
Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is one of the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single sources for rugged, integrated solutions that are qualified for military platforms. Our product and service expertise includes Motion Control, Network Centric Computing, Rate Sensor Assemblies, Vehicle Management Computers, High-Speed Recording & Storage, Chassis/Enclosures, Power Supplies, Power Management and Electronic Contract Manufacturing Services. The Electronic Systems group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, visit www.cwcelectronicsystems.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
