N.A.T. has offered a complete portfolio of products with MicroTCA. The Native product family offers a range of preinstalled AC/DC MicroTCA systems. All the products allow the free selection and mixture of AMC boards. The Native-Starter-Plus is a turnkey MicroTCA system for evaluation and development. It is ready to run with preinstalled Ubuntu Linux OS, and remote management and maintenance software, NATView. The CPU board NAMC-T7400 is a 2.16GHz Core2Duo T7400 processor (fan less) with 2Gbyte ECC SDRAM. It is connected via PCIe-X4 with the AMC graphic board NAMC-HDDGX using a dual display controller and via SATA with the onboard hard disk. The AMC extender NAMC-EXT allows easy measurement. A second CPU and hard disk or three midsize AMC-IO cards can be added.
A special feature of the Native-Starter-Plus is that all the MicroTCA features are included as per the standard. Therefore, all components including AMC and MCH can be exchanged with any component based on the open standard. Other operating systems like Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, QNX are tested and can be installed by the customer.
Also applications based on PCI or cPCI-IO cards can take advantage of the Native-Starter-Plus by using the XLINK adapter product family. The PMC-modules can be integrated by the PMC carrier board, NAMC-PMC. As no driver and application modification is needed, users can immediately build a platform with the existing IO hardware and software. The use of Native-Starter-Plus or any other member of the Native family adds innovative features like remote management and maintenance functions and higher system bandwidth and if needed redundancy and electronic keying support to the product in short time. For AMC designers requiring simple environment for testing their AMC hardware, the NAMC-EXT-PS can be used but it needs a 12V power supply to run in standalone mode. The customer AMC hardware can be plugged into any member of the Native family.
