FREMONT, Calif. – Elma Electronic Inc. in Fremont, Calif., is introducing a VPX chassis manager that aligns with The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) technical standard 1.0 and supports the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) standardization initiative from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The VITA 46.11 Tier 3 chassis manager comes as a standalone unit or can be mounted on a carrier card. 3U and 6U conduction-cooled plug-in versions and an air-cooled 3U version also are available. The card offers firewall support and SOSA out-of-band command support as well as 16 digital inputs and 16 configurable digital outputs that provide a high degree of system management function.
For use in military embedded computing applications, the chassis manager helps ensure overall system health and proper operation. This includes maintaining a components and sensor inventory and receiving reports and notices from installed intelligent field replaceable units.
The SOSA-aligned chassis manager also can adjust the fan speed for over- and under-temperature conditions and report or shut down the system due to over or under voltage and current conditions.
Additional features include power management and cooling control, event sensor logging, electronic keying, and card hot-swap monitoring. The chassis manager offers a redundant Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB), and operates in temperatures from -40 to 85 degrees Celsius.
A web-based graphical user interface monitors as many as 12 fans, eight analog inputs, and six external thermistors. It presents all data in a graphical representation with sensor information. Parameters that can be monitored include health, voltage, fan RPM, power, temperature, device ID, serial and port numbers, and software versions.
For more information contact Elma Electronic online at www.elma.com.
