VPX102

The VPX102 is a carrier module (VITA 46). It provides PCIe Gen3 x8 and is the most comprehensive VPX carrier available for XMC modules.

The J14/J16 connector of the XMC are routed per VITA 46.9. The module supports different backplane pin field assignments to support rear I/O access for the XMC module. The following profiles are supported:

• P2w1-P64s (Figure 1)
• P1w9-X12d+P2w1-P64s (Figure 2)
• P2w7-X8d+X12d (Figure 3)
• P2w1-X24s+X8d+X12d (Figure 4)
• P2w3-X38s+X8d (Figure 5)
• P1w9-X12d+P2w3-X38s+X8d (Figure 6)
• P1w13-X38s+X8d+X12d (Figure 7)

The module supports PCIe and None-PCIe based XMC. The module has a re-timer onboard which allows the XMC to drive long traces on the backplane as well as cleaning the received data from long traces coming from the backplane to the XMC.

This modular approach allows a VPX carrier and VPX Chassis to utilize the large numbers of XMC modules available on the market.