American Megatrends Series 904 Features

Building on its expertise in storage and
motherboard technologies, AMI offers
custom backplane designs. AMI's state-of-
the-art backplane designs maximize signal
integrity, optimize artwork layout and
support advanced clustering, auto-
termination and isolation capabilities.
AMI designs and develops key high speed system
components, preserving signal integrity with
increasing data rates, bus lengths and loading. AMI's
experienced design staff understands the latest
industry innovations and uses the tools and tech-
niques needed to design high reliability systems.
SCSI's evolution from a low speed narrow inter-
connect to a high speed wide bus is a challenge to
equipment vendors. Designing high speed buses
that travel over several printed circuit boards and
cables requires knowledge beyond traditional
artwork layout. AMI developed signal routing and
layer usage strategies that optimize signal integrity
with minimal manufacturability sacrifice.
With system complexity on the increase, AMI
ensures the highest level of interoperability when
more of the system components are designed and
tested by AMI.
AMI designs are carefully placed and routed for
the best signal flow. Architecting SCSI systems that
operate flawlessly with the latest Ultra160 and
Ultra320 specifications requires minimizing stubs,
accurate spacing of loads and connectors, bus
loading limitations and signal propagation.
One of the most beneficial features to AMI's
backplanes is Intelligent Platform Management
Interfac (IPMI) support for v0.9 and v1.0. IPMI
gives IT managers access to platform management
information and control features, allowing more
accurate predictions of hardware failures, hardware
problem diagnoses and recovery action initiation.
AMI offers a variety of storage-related
products. For more information about
AMI's products, visit:
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