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A FPGA Mezzanine Card or FMC is a printed circuit board designed to the ANSI/VITA 57 standard. This standard describes the requirements for an I/O mezzanine module that connects to a carrier card's FPGA processing device.
The aim is to provide multiple I/O options for standard FPGA based carrier cards.
The FMC specification defines the:
- mechanical properties of the module and carrier in sufficient detail to allow interchangeability,
- high-speed connector,
- electrical connectivity of the IO mezzanine module high-speed connector.
There are similarities with the standards for PMC and XMC modules. However FMC modules use a smaller form factor and assume connection to an FPGA device.
A single width FMC is upto 69 x 84 x 12.4 mm and has a single connector to the carrier.
The connector supports upto 400 pins which provides a potential overall bandwidth of 40 Gb/s between mezzanine and carrier card[1].
The industry's first VITA 57.1 compliant FMC module was announced in April 2008[2].
References
- ^ http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp315.pdf
- ^ http://www.mil-embedded.com/news/db/?11394
External links
- VME Technology: FMC