Enabling AdvancedTCA to support truly distributed processing applications

摘要

An important limitation has previously prevented AdvancedTCA from establishing itself even more widely as the communications architecture of choice for next-generation networks. That limitation is PCI Express control architecture definitions. However, this challenge can be overcome through an understanding of serial link technologies including the impact of PCI Express bridging and reference clock shortcomings, along with corresponding open systems standards and a universal AMC.