ANSI Approves ANSI/VITA 4-1995, IP Modules

Scottsdale, AZ.--The Board of Standards Review of ANSI (the American National Standards Institute), on 16 July 1996, approved the ANSI/VITA 4-1995, IP Modules as an American National Standard. This specification was developed under the VSO (VITA Standards Organization), the standards committee of VITA (the VMEbus International Trade Association), an accredited ANSI standards developer.

(From the abstract of the document...) This standard defines a versatile module, known as "IP Module". These modules provide a convenient method of implementing a wide range of I/O, control, interface, slave processor, analog and digital functions. IP modules, about the size of a traditional business card, mount parallel with a host Carrier board, which provides host processor or primary bus interfacing, as well as mechanical means for connecting the IP module's I/O to the outside world. Typical Carriers include stand-alone processors, DSP-based carriers, as well as desktop buses and VME-based boards. This specification includes mechanical, host bus electrical, and logical definitions of I/O space, memory space, identification space, interrupts, DMA, and reset functions. Two physical sizes, two fixed clock rates, and multiple data width sizes up to 32-bits are defined.

This standard specifies the electrical, mechanical, and logical definitions for the popular "IndustryPack (tm)" mezzanine modules (IndustryPack is a trademark of Greenspring Computers). VITA will provide a free copy of this new ANSI standard to trade press editors. Please send your request by return email to exec@vita.com with your publication name and mailing address.

The approved ANSI/VITA 4-1995 draft is available in pdf format for downloading here.