SBS Telum™ Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AdvancedMC™) for ATCA

The Telum line from SBS Technologies is the first complete set of AdvancedMC cards and chassis available for AdvancedTCA® systems. SBS Telum products include AdvancedMC Processor and Video cards, Expansion Chassis, and Gigabit Ethernet, T1/E1/J1, OC3/OC12, DS3/E3, and Fibre Channel cards.

Thus, although AdvancedTCA , per se, has always been targetted at the telecommunications space, emerging new products around AdvancedMC hold the promise of expanding market reach into other vertical segments, as well as allowing OEM's to combine AdvancedMC modules with non-ATCA, 'proprietary' solutions. An example of the latter was the announcement by SBS Technologies of joint development with IBM of an AdvancedMC Carrier Card for IBM eServer BladeCenter systems. Release here .

SBS Technologies clearly aims to take the lead in the AdvancedTCA/AdvanceMC space, and thus blitzed the show with many interesting and innovative announcements. Check them all out, here . Other vendors followed suit. SBE , for example, released its lanAMC-4GC , an AdvancedMC board with four Gigabit Ethernet copper ports for use in a wide variety of next generation and wireless and storage networking equipment. Release here . And Audiocodes hoped to make AdvancedTCA easier to use, by focusing on software development with its TP-12610 Software Development Kit (SDK) for AdvancedTCA applications.

• There are simply too many AdvancedTCA announcements to list in the short space of this eLetter, so simply click here for a full list (select 'news releases').

Freescale made major announcements for its ColdFire , PowerPC , PowerQuicc and i.MX families. For the i.MX architecture, the company announced $499 developers kits that make it inexpensive and easy to explore this ARM-based architecture. Release here . Read all the announcements at the Freescale Press Center, here .

Third parties were well represented and have rallied around Freescale in recent months. Green Hills Software , for example, announced optimized RTOS and networking products for Freescale Semiconductor's advanced PowerQUICC II and PowerQUICC III communications processors containing PowerPC cores and ColdFire embedded processors that feature integrated security engines. Release here .

Tundra continued its support of the PowerPC by announcing its host bridge family for PowerPC that includes dual processor support and power management features. Release here . And Vmetro announced the 3CPF1, a signal processing engine that combines the capabilities of a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA (XC2VP70), a Freescale PowerPC CPU (7447A) and multi-channel communications - in a rugged 3U form-factor board. Release here .

( conference, 5 stars ) - 7/20/2005, Scottsdale

Microchip Masters Conference
Microchip Annual Summer Technical Exchange Review Conference is a bi-directional exchange of technical information between the technical work force at Microchip and our strong technical partners including consultants, customers, third parties, distributor FAEs and design houses. MASTERs is an in-depth, highly-technical Conference structured to meet the needs of todays design engineer.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 8/1/2005, New York

SpeachTEK Conference
Mega site - of both a conference and a major publication on Speech technology. SpeechTEK is the annual worldwide gathering of the minds and markets in speech technology. It is a once-a-year opportunity to meet and interact with the global network of vendors and enterprise customers who are developing and implementing speech solutions.

( conference, 4 stars ) - 8/2/2005, South San Francisco

VoIP Developers' Conference
TMC is proud to announce the VoIP Developer Conference, an event dedicated to teaching conferees how to take advantage of all types of development in the IP telephony space. This is the one event that every developer in the communications space needs to attend in order to learn the state of the market as well as the future of VoIP and the development opportunities it affords them.