January 28, 2014 – ADLINK Technology announced availability of Revision 2 of PICMG’s COM Express Carrier Design Guide. The Design Guide was updated by a special PICMG subcommittee to reflect the new signals adopted with the PICMG COM.0 R2.1 specification, and includes design rules and guidance for the latest high-speed interfaces, including PCI Express Gen3, SuperSpeed USB, SATA 6Gb/s, and reference schematics for digital display interfaces (DDI) to support HMDI, DVI and DisplayPort outputs. The new guide is available for download without charge on both the PICMG and ADLINK websites.
“Significant time and effort was spent on simulation of the newly adopted high-speed signals to ensure design rules that result in working carrier boards,” explained ADLINK’s CTO, Jeff Munch, who chaired the special PICMG subcommittee, keeping the process moving forward through final release of the latest document. Revision 2 of PICMG’s COM Express Carrier Design Guide provides information for designing a custom system carrier board for COM Express modules. The Design Guide includes reference schematics for the external circuitry required to implement the various COM Express peripheral functions and explains how to extend the supported buses, as well as how to add peripherals and expansion slots to a COM Express-based system.
“On-going updates are critical to enable full-featured designs using any open specification, particularly one as accepted in the embedded vendor community as COM Express,” said Joe Pavlat, president and chairman of the PICMG consortium. “We greatly appreciate the active participation of members like ADLINK to lead these efforts.” The Design Guide contains additional information, but does not replace PICMG's COM Express specification.
About PICMG
Founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, PICMG is a consortium of over 250 companies that collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications, military and industrial computing applications.
About ADLINK Technology
ADLINK Technology provides a wide range of embedded computing products and services to the test & measurement, automation & process control, gaming, communications, medical, network security, and transportation industries. ADLINK products include PCI Express-based data acquisition and I/O; vision and motion control; and AdvancedTCA, CompactPCI, and computer-on-modules (COMs) for industrial computing. With the acquisition of Ampro Computers, Inc. and LiPPERT Embedded Computers GmbH, ADLINK also provides a wide range of rugged by design Extreme Rugged™ and rugged product lines including single board computers, COMs and systems.
