UTC006

The UTC006 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:

UTC006 is a double module, MTCA.4 format, MCH with front-panel fabric expansion and RTM support (PCIe optiononly). Fabric options include PCIe Gen3, 10/40GbE, Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, Cross Bar Switch (CBS), and SRIO.

The MCMC manages the Power Modules, Cooling Units, and upto 12 AMCs within the chassis. It also manages the fabric switch as well as the standard GbE with 10GbE uplink Base Channel switch. The Ethernet switch is managed with an enterprise grade Layer 3 switching/routing stack and they support Synchronous Ethernet.

The firmware in the UTC006 is HPM.2 compliant which allows for easy upgrades. It provides Master JTAG services to the AMCs via the JSM, with an option for virtual JTAG capability. The MCH has advanced clocking features including grand master clock and high quality clock distribution/synthesis.

Key Features:

• Fabric options include PCIe Gen3, 40/10GbE, SRIO, Cross Bar Switch (CBS) or Xilinx Virtex-7 690T FPGA for complete flexibility
• Front panel fabric expansion, e.g. quad ports forPCIe Gen 3 (x4, x8, or x16)
• PLL synthesizer for generating any clock frequency disciplined to GPS/SyncE/IEEE1588
• Double module, full size per AMC.0 and MTCA.4
• 1GbE base switch with dual 100/1000/10 G uplink
• Full Layer 3 managed Ethernet switch
• Unified 1 GHz quad-core CPU for MicroTCA Carrier Management Controller (MCMC), Shelf Manager, Clocking, and Fabric management
• Automatic fail-over with redundant UTC006s

UTC006 Datasheet