For several years CERN has been an active member in several standardization organizations who develop important specifications and standards in the field of electronics: IPC, PCI-SIG, PICMG, PXI System Alliance and VITA. Other resources are also listed below.

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IPC

• IPC provides standards and quality programs supporting the electronics industry such as standards for electronics assembly and PCB fabrication. The main specification for CERN is IPC-A-610: Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies.
• Standards are available on the CERN Library Catalogue.
• IPC Website: http://www.ipc.org

PCI-SIG

• This organization develops standards such as PCI Express, PCI and PCI-X.
• Standards available on CERN Library Catalogue.
• PCI-SIG website: http://www.pcisig.com
• To access the 'members only area', you may register yourself at https://members.pcisig.com/user/register and use CERN in the company lookup.

PICMG

• This organization develops standards such as CompactPCI, ATCA, MicroTCA, COM Express.
• Standards available on CERN Library Catalogue.
• PICMG website: https://www.picmg.org

PXI Systems Alliance

• This organization develops standards such as PXI: 'PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation' and PXIe: 'PCI EXPRESS eXtensions for Instrumentation'.
• The specifications are available from: http://pxisa.org/Specifications/ 

SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association)

• The SNIA is a non-profit global organization dedicated to developing standards and education programs to advance storage and information technology.
• CERN employees wanting to observe or participate in SNIA's SFF TA TWG can create a user account. 

VITA

• This organization develops standards such as VMEbus, PMC, VXS, VPX and FMC.
• Standards available on CERN Library Catalogue.
• VITA public website: http://www.vita.com
• VITA members website: https://workspace.vita.com
• To access the "member's only area", you may register yourself at http://www.vita.com/join and use CERN in the company lookup.

Other resources

CERN developed general purpose hardware

• VME FMC carrier cards:
  • VME FMC Carrier HPC-DDR3 (VFC-HD) (open hardware)
  • Simple VME FMC carrier (SVEC) (open hardware, commercially available)
• PCIe FMC carrier card:
  • Simple PCIe FMC carrier (SPEC) (open hardware, commercially available)
• FMC open hardware mezzanine cards on ohwr.org:
  • FMC cards
  • FMC information

Other CERN services related to bus standards

• Electronics Pool (EP-ESE)
• Electronics Pool catalogue (EP-ESE - VME and MicroTCA, ATCA to follow - CERN login required)
• PCI, xTCA, USB & VME64x Board ID Allocation (EP-ESE)
• Crates for Modular Electronics (EP-ESE)

In case of questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: @email

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