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IP, PMC and PC-MIP specifications
The IP, PMC and PC-MIP specifications are in Adobe PDF format. In
order to view these files you will need to install Acrobat Reader which
is available for download from
www.adobe.com/acrobat/readstep.html.
You should then read the following article first:
"IP, PMC, PC-MIP
M-Modules: Competitive or Complementary Technologies?",
by Martin Timmerman, Secretary General of Mezzanines International
 IP (IndustryPack):
The Board of Standards Review of ANSI approved the ANSI/VITA 4-1995,
IP Modules as an American National Standard on 16 July 1996. This specification
was developed under the VSO, the standards committee of VITA. (Read
the press release) .
Following drafts are available in PDF format on the GreenSpring Modular
I/O and Force Computers web site for free:
 PMC and CMC:
Following drafts are available in PDF format on the Force Computers
& VITA web site for free:
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PMC: IEEE P1386.1 Physical and
Environmental Layers for PCI Mezzanine Cards, Draft 2.4, January 12, 2001,
(PDF
format: 119 KB)
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CMC: IEEE P1386 Common Mezzanine
Card Family, Draft 2.4, March 21, 2001, (PDF
format: 654 KB)
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CCMC: Conduction Cooled PMC: VITA
20-199X/D1.9a draft 1.9a(PDF
format: 101K) The specification defines the conduction cooling requirements
for the host carrier card as well as the PCI Mezzanine Card.
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PICMG 2.3 (Sept 1998) PMC I/O Pin Assignment on CompactPCI, available at
PICMG.
See also a technical paper from Wayne Fischer, Force Computers: "PCI
Mezzanine Cards (PMC) on VME and CompactPCI" Read
the press release on the approval of the PICMG 2.3 standard.
PC-MIP:
The new PC-MIP mezzanine standard was officially launched at the Embedded
Systems Conference in San Jose. The Draft Specification is available for
download below, while the Draft Standard Document is being developed under
ANSI/VITA Task Group VITA-29. For more information on this new mezzanine,
consult our
PC-MIP special.
Send questions and suggestions to
info@mezzanines.org
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