Cooling test and development meets VITA 48.8 air flow-through
Air flow control for up to five one-slot VITA 48.8 backplanes is provided with the latest model in the CompacFrame series by Elma Electronic. It is designed to accelerate development and test of plug-in cards (PICs) aligned to the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) technical standard 1.0 and VITA 65 OpenVPX.
The Type 39A CompacFrame accepts up to five single-slot VPX power and ground backplanes for plug-in cards on 1.0, 1.2 or 1.5-inch pitches designed for use with VITA 48.8 air flow-through (AFT) cooling. New card and system design implementations and testing can be performed for a range of rugged environments, including electronic warfare, C5ISR (command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), target tracking and display, navigation systems and threat detection as well as in sensor payloads and image and data processing applications.
Supporting air flow-through cooling helps customers meet the demands of SWaP (size, weight and power) optimisation in small form factor systems.
The updated, lightweight construction of Elma’s CompacFrame series is tilted up five degrees for easier viewing and plug-in cards insertion. User interfaces are designed for easy access, which simplifies and reduces design time, says the company. There is also an integrated carrying handle for portability.
The two other standard CompacFrames in the series are a slimline version that accommodates open standards-based backplanes of up to four slots and the mid-range version, supporting up to eight slots aligned to SOSA Technical Reference Standard 1.0.
VITA 48.8 helps reduce weight and cost for high density, high power dissipation of 3U and 6U module based systems by eliminating the use of card retainers and ejector/injector handles. Lightweight jack screws are used for insertion and extraction into a chassis. The elimination of module-to-chassis conduction cooling means VITA 48.8 drives innovative use of new lightweight polymer or composite-based chassis.
