November 7, 2011. Newark/element14, a multi-channel electronics distributor in the Americas, and a business of Premier Farnell, announced it has added new 3M high speed connector families to meet PICMG and PC/104 consortium standards for embedded computing designs and to enhance its already wide 3M offering.
The specific product lines being introduced include MicroTCA AMC and power connectors meeting the mTCA specification as well as ATCA power connectors meeting the PICMG 3.0 specification, CompactPCI power connectors meeting PICMG 2.11, and PC/104 connectors, per the PC/104 specification.
These solutions are designed to complement the high-performance Ultra Hard Metric (UHM) connector by 3M that is designated by PICMG in the 2.30 standard to support high-speed serial protocols (SAS/SATA, PCIExpress, Gigabit Ethernet, and USB 2.0) over legacy 3U and 6U CompactPCI systems.