VITA 57.1 FMC Standard Products

Samtec's FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) was developed and ratified by a consortium of FPGA vendors and end-user members of the VITA 57 working group. FMC and FMC+ are ANSI standards that define a compact electromechanical expansion interface for a daughter card to an FPGA baseboard or other device with reconfigurable I/O capability.

The FMC standard is essential for FPGA vendors making baseboards and comprehensive development kits to enable designers to accelerate their application development. FMC products are continually introduced by supplier companies for targeted market-specific applications in industries such as datacom, broadcast, aerospace/defense, industrial, and instrumentation.

VITA standards specify configurations for the SEARAY™ high-speed array VITA 57.1 FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) connector in 8.5 mm and 10 mm stack heights. The LPC connectors provide 68 user-defined, single-ended signals (or 34 user-defined, differential pairs). HPC connectors provide 160 user-defined, single-ended signals (or 80 user-defined, differential pairs), 10 serial transceiver pairs, and an additional clock.