UTC004

The UTC004 3rd generation MicroTCA MCH or Carrier Hub is the system's chassis manager, communication switch and clock controller combined into one module

It handles:

• System management: monitors and controls AMC modules, power supplies, fans, temperatures, and hot-swap events.
• Backplane switching: provides Ethernet, PCIe, Serial RapidIO (SRIO), or other fabric connections between modules.
• Clock distribution: supplies synchronized reference clocks to the system.
• Chassis coordination: communicates with each module through the Intelligent Platform Management Interface or IPMI.

As a standardized platform of PICMG MicroTCA systems are typically used in medical applications, telecommunications, defense as well as in measurement systems for industrial and scientific applications (e.g. particle physics).

Description:

UTC004 is the most feature-rich MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) on the market. Its management software is based on the robust Carrier Manager and Shelf Manager which have been deployed for years with proven results.

The MCMC manages the Power Modules, Cooling Units, and up to 12 AMCs within the chassis. It also manages the optional PCIe Gen3, SRIO Gen2, 40GbE/10GbE or Crossbar Fat Pipe switches as well as the standard GbE with 10GbE uplink Base Channel switch.

The ethernet switches are managed with an enterprise grade Layer 2 or 3 switching/routing stack and they support synchronous ethernet.

The unit runs Linux on its centralized quad-core CPU and is hot-swappable/fully redundant when used in conjunction with a second instance of the module. The firmware is HPM.2 compliant which allows for easy upgrades.

The UTC004 provides Master JTAG services to the AMCs via the JSM and has advanced clocking features including grand master clock and high-quality clock distribution/synthesis.

Key Features:

• Unified 1 GHz quad-core CPU for MCMC (MicroTCA Carrier Management Controller), Shelf Manager, Clocking, and Fabric management
• Automatic fail-over with redundant UTC004s
• 1GbE base switch with dual 100/1000/10G uplink
• Full Layer 2 or 3 managed Ethernet switches
• Non-blocking PCIe Gen 3, SRIO Gen 2, 10GbE/40GbE, or Crossbar Switch option to AMC fat pipes with options for up to 40GbE uplink
• Low-jitter M-LVDS clock distribution crossbar matrix
• PLL synthesizer for generating any clock frequency disciplined to GPS/SyncE/IEEE1588
• Single module, full size per AMC.0

UTC004 Datasheet