PCI Systems Inc. manufactures a variety of rugged modular conduction cooled chassis and a full range of 3U and 6U COTS modules for VPX and CPCI applications. An assortment of lab chassis with DSUB rear I/O, extenders and bus extenders round off the classic product line. Our brand new rugged small form factor chassis system VITA 73 is the focus of our current research and development.

Customers we have delivered to range from Lockheed-Martin, Emerson, Rockwell Collins, Boeing, LeCroy, and NASA Orlando in the USA, Rheinmetal Defense, EADS and Forschungzentrum Jülich in Germany to Aitech, ELTA Israel Aircraft and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in Israel.

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Our mission is to provide technically excellent design solutions to OEM’s by delivering the most cost-effective, technically advanced and reliable designs. Call us at: (408) 625-1090 

 

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Tuesday
Mar122013

New: 3U VPX Bus Extender Kit PCIe Gen. 3

Product page: Click here!

Features:

  • For Lab use
  • Expands PCIe bus
  • SSC capable
  • Optical or copper interconnect cable

Features:

  • For Lab use
  • Expands PCIe bus
  • SSC capable
  • Optical or copper interconnect cable
Monday
Dec172012

..:: NEW! IVY BRIDGE I7 cpu modules x16 PCIe ::..

Intel Core I7 "Ivy Bridge"

VPX 3U and 6U conduction cooled CPU modules / Rev 3

Click here for product page with visio diagram!

 The 3U VPX I7 CPU Board features:

  • up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • USB 3.0, SATA3 6 Gb/s, RS-232/RS-422/RS-485
  • WindRiver VxWorks, Linux and MS-Windows
  • Intel® Core™i7 with QM77 
  • 3U and 6U VPX (VITA 46) module
  • Up to 16 GB of DDR3-1066 ECC SDRAM in two channels
  • 8 MB NOR boot flash
  • 256 GB SATA drive onboard
  • Ruggedized VITA 48 (REDI) compatible
  • Conduction  cooled
  • MIL-Bus Interface

 

The VPX I7 CPU board is a high-speed 3U OPEN VPX single-board computer, based on the Intel® Core™i7 processor. It connects to the system backplane with up to x16 PCIe. The VPX I7 features a MILbus chip and has a 256GB SSD SATA 3 onboard. 4 USB3, 10 USB2, 2 SATA 6 Gb/s and 4 SATA 3 Gb/s connections that can be used.

  • Intel® Core i7-3615QE, 4x 2.3 GHz
  • Intel® Core i7-3612QE, 4x 2.1 GHz
  • Intel® Core i7-3555LE, 2x 2.5 GHz
  • Intel® Core i7-3517UE, 2x 2.5 GHz
  • Intel® Core i5-3610ME, 2x 2.7 GHz
  • Intel® Core i3-3120ME, 2x 2.4 GHz
  • Intel® Core i3-3217UE, 2x 1.6 GHz

 

 

Wednesday
Oct312012

AMMT - Active Modular Backplane Mezzanine Technology

PCI-Systems Inc. forward looking Active Modular Backplane Mezzanine Technology (AMMT) (PATENT PENDING) for very high speed interslot communication is currently being deployed in various 3U VPX projects. 

The technology is paramount in future techologies clustered around the VPX (www.vita.com) standard, and is being used in current VPX designs from PCI-Systems Inc.

A passive backplane, with an active piggyback mezzanine facilitates the use of in-chip backplane profile configurating and very high speed interslot communication with large signal count.

Features:

  • x16 / x32 PCIe GEN3 interslot communication
  • No more space limitations for routing of many signals in a small form factor
  • On backplane processing
  • On backplane slot configuration using crosspoint switch

Please ask your representative or PCI-Systems Inc for the presentation!

Tuesday
Jun192012

Crosswind 600 Chassis used in F-18 aircraft for automated carrier landing system demonstrator

Based on the CrossWind 600 cold plate ATR chassis, the system uses a PCIe Gen2 bus structure with STAR topology. Intel based i7 boards and Freescale 4080 PowerPC boards are controlling MILbus, ARINC and serial I/O boards. An integrated 16 channel Gigabit Ethernet switch is connected to several slots and to the rear I/O on MIL connectors.

High speed data transfers on PCIe Gen 2 and Gen 3 switch fabric in a STAR configuration offer the lowest latency by tightly coupling all PCIe devices to a common 100MHz reference clock. It allows CPU and peripheral boards to communicate with the fastest data rate.

The lightweight 3U VPX chassis are used in demonstrating automated aircraft carrier landings with F18 fighter aircraft.