VITA announces the formation of the FMC Marketing Alliance. The purpose of the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) Marketing Alliance is to establish an ecosystem of interested parties that promotes and grows adoption of the FMC specifications and technology. The Alliance is responsible for promoting the capabilities of the FMC specification and educating, training, informing and promoting FMC use to the press and the broader electronics community.
FMC, as defined in VITA 57, provides a specification describing an I/O mezzanine module with connection to an FPGA or other device with reconfigurable I/O capability. The low profile design allows use on popular industry standard slot card, blade and motherboard form factors, including VME, VPX, CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, PCI, PXI, and many other low profile motherboards. The compact size is highly adaptable to many configuration needs and compliments existing common low profile mezzanine technology such as PMC, XMC, and AMC.
Wolfgang Patelay, Editor Print & Online 