Waterloo, Ontario  —  February 17, 2025 –  Pixus Technologies, a provider of embedded computing and enclosure solutions, has announced a new C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and SOSA development backplane that supports various I/O intensive, compute intensive, switches, PNT slots, and VITA 62 PSU slots.  

The 8-slot development backplane only has the utility plane routed (including power, ground, SMbus, clock, and utility signals).  This allows a versatile range of plug-in card configurations to be utilized.  Three of the slots have a cutouts for VITA 67.3c interfaces and one slot has a VITA 67.3d cutout.  The unit can be purchased in an open frame, rackmount/desktop, or other chassis format along with a Pixus SOSA aligned Tier 3 chassis manager development kit, which cables to the backplane.  

Pixus offers various OpenVPX backplane/chassis systems in commercial, development, and MIL rugged formats.  The company also provides IEEE and Eurocard components for the embedded computer market. 

 About Pixus Technologies 

Leveraging over 20 years of innovative standard products, the Pixus team is comprised of industry experts in electronics packaging. Founded in 2009 by senior management from Kaparel Corporation, a Rittal company, Pixus Technologies’ embedded backplanes and systems are focused primarily on  ATCA, OpenVPX, MicroTCA, and custom designs.    Pixus also has an extensive offering of VME-based and cPCI-based solutions.   In May 2011, Pixus Technologies became the sole authorized North and South American supplier of the electronic packaging products previously offered by Kaparel Corporation and Rittal.