Press Release

CompactPCI® Plus News #3

• CompactPCI® Plus Seminar at the Embedded World Conference 2009

Nuremberg, Germany – December 09, 2008. Mark your calendar for March 4, 2009: As part of the Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg a seminar series with 10 papers is dedicated to CompactPCI Plus. Suppliers and potential system providers will give a first glimpse at PICMG’s emerging standards around CompactPCI Plus. Potential integrators and users describe the fields of application from their point of view and compare the new system characteristics with their requirements.

The CompactPCI Plus seminar agenda:

• Keynote (PICMG)
• Introduction to the standard (MEN Mikro Elektronik)
• UHM connector – compatible and high speed (3M)
• AirMax connector – high density and IEC1101 compatible (FCI)
• Standard systems and differences compared to MicroTCA, VPX, VXS (Schroff)
• Modern serial buses and their future role for CompactPCI Plus (Intel)
• CompactPCI – a success story and its limits (XKrug)
• PICMG 2.30 – migration path and system examples (MEN Mikro Elektronik)
• Application sample video recording in trains (Siemens Industry Mobility)
• Outlook roadmap of the standard (MEN Mikro Elektronik)

MEN Mikro Elektronik – Profile and Mission

Since its foundation in 1982 our company designs and manufactures failure-safe computer boards and systems for extreme environmental conditions in industrial and safety-critical embedded applications. Our mission is to provide innovative solutions while maximizing reliability and flexibility.

With nearly 200 employees and subsidiaries in France and the USA we have an annual revenue of 28 million Euros with an export share of about 50%. Customized solutions make for more than half of our revenue. In addition the standard product range includes far more than 100 different computer boards with Intel® Pentium® and multi-core processors and PowerPC® with the corresponding BIOS, BSP and driver software, manifold I/O boards and completely configured systems based on:

• ESMexpress® and ESM™ Embedded System Modules
• 3U and 6U CompactPCI®, CompactPCI® Express and VMEbus
• PMC, XMC and M-Modules™ as system-independent mezzanine I/O standards

The consistent use of FPGA technology gives us high flexibility when configuring customized and standard products.

Our products are used worldwide as control, measuring, test or simulation computers in all kinds of embedded applications. These comprise extremely safety-critical markets such as railways, including buses and commercial vehicles, aerospace technology or the medical industry, but also mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, telecommunications and the automotive industry. Computer systems in such applications are in operation up to 24 hours every day and often need to be available for 10 years and longer. Ideally no failures must occur to avoid costly downtimes of machines or danger to human life.

We are certified to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 in order to offer our customers the highest quality in products and services while considering environmental protection and occupational safety on the basis of a recognized quality management system. To meet the severe quality requirements in critical applications we are working on certification to AS 9100 (aerospace) and IRIS (railways).

Our aim is to constantly improve and to provide the highest technology and innovation level. Our business ethics is determined by the principles of the United Nations' Global Compact Initiative (human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption).

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