• Engineered in strict conformance with VITA 48.4 for liquid flow through cooling
• Handles up to six 6U VPX cards using 200 W or more
• High-performance power and ground backplane
• Full rear transition support to facilitate testing and debugging

FREMONT, Calif., August 2025 – Elma Electronic’s Liquid Flow Through (LFT) VITA 48.4 modular test and development chassis enables rapid prototyping and testing of up to six 6U OpenVPX plug-in cards (PICs) with power densities of 200 W or more.

The self-contained platform is designed for proof-of-concept testing and development tasks in a variety of mission-critical aerospace and defense environments. Specific applications include sensor payloads, electronic warfare (EW), C5ISR, navigation systems and target tracking and display.

The system’s high-performance power and ground backplane ensures dependable power and signal routing across all six PIC slots via the utility plane. Its 10 Gbps data rate allows the system to keep pace with the increased processing of high-throughput applications.

Ram Rajan, Sr. VP Engineering of Elma, noted, “As computing densities increase, liquid cooling provides the thermal management needed in today’s embedded systems, where traditional methods may not hold up. This new development platform gives system designers the confidence to test applications for deployment in a number of extreme environments with extended heat profiles.”

The new development platform facilitates access to the plug-in cards via the open side frame design. Support for rear transition IO across all slots ensures rapid system configuration for bench-top test and debugging.

Designed for high-performance thermal management through integrated liquid cooling channels, the platform is ready for operation and integration into liquid-cooled test environments and works with LFT PICs from all major manufacturers. An external coolant distribution unit (CDU) is required to operate the liquid flow through cooling.

The unit comes with an internal 1400 W power supply and the internal VITA 46.11 chassis manager monitors voltages and temperature status. A number of customization options are available upon request.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/vita484lft contact sales at sales@elma.com, or call (510) 656-3400.

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About Elma Electronic

Elma Electronic is a global manufacturer of commercial, industrial and rugged electronic products for embedded systems and application-ready platforms – from components, embedded boards, backplanes, chassis and enclosures, power supplies, to fully integrated subsystems.

With one of the widest product ranges available in the embedded industry, Elma also offers standard and custom cabinets and enclosures as well as precision components such as rotary switches/encoders, LEDs, front panels and small cases.

Elma leverages proven technology based on VITA, PICMG, and other standards-based architectures (i.e. OpenVPX, SOSA®, VME, CompactPCI Serial and COM Express). Elma is actively engaged in designing solutions for applications requiring smaller footprints.

Elma Electronic manages entire projects from initial system architecture to specification, design, manufacturing and test through its worldwide production facilities and sales offices. The company serves the mil/aero, industrial, research, telecom, medical and commercial markets and is certified to ISO 9001 and AS 9100.

Elma’s global seat is in Wetzikon, Switzerland, with multiple locations around the world. The company’s U.S. headquarters are in Fremont, Calif., with sales, engineering and manufacturing operations in Atlanta, Ga., and Philadelphia, Pa.