ATCA: its performance and application for real time systems

Author

Oltean, Alexandra Dana ; Martin, Brian

Author_Institution

Eur. Organ. for Nucl. Res., Geneva

fYear

2005

fDate

10-10 June 2005

Abstract

The Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA), describes a high bandwidth, high connectivity, chassis based architecture designed principally to appeal to the telecommunications industry. The object of the exercise was to closely connect compute engines within the chassis to multiple user services brought in at the front panel. This maps closely to the needs of real time systems and the main points of the architecture are reviewed and discussed in that light. The performance of an ATCA backplane has been tested and measured using a backplane tester developed within a 10 Gb/s Ethernet switch project that was an early adopter of the ATCA standard. Some results from these tests are presented

Keywords

computer architecture; real-time systems; telecommunication computing; telecommunication services; telecommunication standards; Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture; Ethernet switch project; backplane tester; chassis based architecture; data acquisition; multiple user services; multiprocessor interconnection; real time system; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Communication industry; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Engines; Real time systems; Switches; Telecommunication computing; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 2005. 14th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9183-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2005.1547396

Filename

1547396