Bustronic Launches New Hot Swap Extender; New Hot Swap Extender Board Allows Boards to be Removed in an Operating VME System Without Exiting the System or Turning Off the Power.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1997--Bustronic Corp. today announced the introduction of a 60 mm Hot Swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the main power is still on. Also called "hot plug" and "hot insertion," hot swap is a feature of USB devices, allowing an external drive, network adapter or other peripheral to be plugged in without having to power down the Extender See Media Center Extender, bus extender and DOS extender. Board. Bustronic's innovative technology allows circuit board hot-swapping in an operating VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. system with no threat of damage to the board or the system and without interrupting, slowing or crashing the system's operation. Unlike the competition, Bustronic's new extender board is specially designed not to require local control of each slot in order to be hot-swapped while driving remote LEDs to indicate slot status. Interposed between VME P1/P2 and the backplane, the Hot Swap Extension supports two modes of operation: it can be permanently attached to the backplane with hot -- or live -- insertion/removal of circuit boards, or conversely, it can be permanently attached to the circuit board with the whole assembly hot inserted/removed from the backplane. "Hot-swapping, designed to operate with our VME320 backplanes, will become an increasingly significant feature for VME systems," said Fred Hirsch, general manager of Bustronic. "Its brilliant design is further testament to Bustronic's technological leadership in backplane technology." Completely transparent to the system and the user, Bustronic's Hot Swap Extender Board is able to sense whether it or the circuit board is fully inserted, and completely disconnects all signals until the power is valid and reset is complete. Available in standard 60 mm height with P1/P2 on one end and J1/J2 on the other, it can also be controlled remotely to disable power, VMEbus and user defined Any format, layout, structure or language that is developed by the user. pins (P2AC). An additional feature avoids power surges by gently ramping power on and off in 10 milliseconds while providing individual SYSRESET for 400 milliseconds during power ramping. Founded in 1989, Bustronic Corp. specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance backplanes in its Fremont facility. Bustronic has a complete line of custom and industry-standard backplanes, including VME320, VME 64X, VME, Compact PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , and ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. + PCI, and VXIbus. The company's application engineers develop custom backplane designs from initial concept to finished product. Bustronic is an ELMA ELMA Elastomania (game) ELMA El Malpais National Monument (US National Park Service) ELMA Embedded Loop Mode Antenna Electronic company. ELMA, based in Wetzikon, Switzerland, and Fremont, is a global leader in electronic enclosures and components with facilities or representation in over 22 countries and is publicly traded on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Bustronic is an executive member of PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. (TM) and can be found on the World Wide Web at: www.bustronic.com . CONTACT: Bustronic Corp., Fremont Donn Dickerman, 510/490-7388 ddickerman@bustronic.com or The Loomis Group Inc. Jennifer Keagle, 415/882-9494 keagle@loomisgroup.com |
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