NAT-MCH

NAT-MCH MicroTCA Carrier Hub

The MicroTCA Carrier Hub is the central management and data switching entity for all MicroTCA systems. The NAT-MCH is MTCA.0, MTCA.1 and MTCA.4 compliant. The NAT-MCH delivers switching functionality for the various system fabrics as defined in the AMC.x standard series, i.e. Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe-Express (PCIe Gen3), Serial Rapid I/O (SRIO Gen2), 10Gigabit Ethernet (XAUI) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or SATA. The Gigabit Ethernet Switch provides a layer 2, non-blocking, low-latency Gigabit Ethernet switch, supporting VPN as well as a port based rate control.

The NAT-MCH incorporates as MicroTCA Carrier Management controller (MCMC) the Freescale ColdFire MCF54452 CPU. The MCH supports and manages 12 AMC modules, 2 cooling units and 1-4 power units. The MCH offers a GbE management port, a GbE port, clock I/O on a BNC port, USB console port and two uplink ports on the SRIO and XAUI version in the front panel. 10GbE (XAUI)-CX4/SFP+, 2,5GbE and 1Gb are available as option for the uplink ports.

A comprehensive software support like a Java based GUI (NATview) interfacing to the Open HPI top level API of the NAT-MCH completes the product and makes it an ideal choice for any AMC based MicroTCA solution.

The NAT-MCH-PHYS is ideal for use in our MicroTCA starter kits.