FREMONT, California March 3, 2011 – Elma Bustronic Corporation, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes now offers a new 3U 6-slot OpenVPX backplane with a twisted-ring routing topology.

Compliant to VITA 65 specifications for OpenVPX, the 6-slot backplane has configurable thin pipe links for distributed Gigabit Ethernet to slot 1 through slot 5 and two fat pipes for rear I/O. In slots 1-5 any or all of the P1 thin pipes (x2 channels) assigned to the control channel star can be reconfigured as rear I/O by removing zero ohm SMT shunts.  In slots 1-5 all P2 differential pairs are available on the rear side for I/O.  The OpenVPX backplane also features a Gigabit Ethernet Control Plane providing a separate star or dual star network for out-of-band communication. This can be particularly important for system management, software and firmware upgrades, and initiating new processes on specific boards.

 The lead time is 2-4 weeks ARO.

About ELMA BUSTRONIC:

Founded in 1989, Elma Bustronic specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance backplanes. Elma Bustronic has a complete line of industry-standard backplanes, including CompactPCI, VME, VME64x, H.110 CT, VXI, VXS, and ATCA. Elma Bustronic’s custom design service combines creative engineering, highly sophisticated computer simulation and modern design techniques to offer customized backplanes that meet the most specialized system requirements. A member of the ELMA Electronic group, Elma Bustronic is located in Fremont, California. Elma Bustronic is a member of PICMG TM and VITA and can be found on the World Wide Web at www.Bustronic.com.