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This is design of simple Micro TCA chassis for single AMC + RTM boards. It does not have MCH - board is supposed to work stand-alone. Simple MCH functionality can be built on Cortex M4F MCU with Ethernet connectivity.

It has 6 SFP cages routed to PORT0, PORT1 and FATPIPE1 and 2 LVDS/UART connectors. Clock routing is bare minimum - just 100MHz oscillator routed to FCLK and ufl connectors routed to CLKA and CLKB which can be extended to the panels using SMA pigtails.

Main purpose of the design is AMC development and usage of AMC+RTM boards connected to PC using Ethernet or PCIe over fibre. The box was created as enclosure for Sayma AMC boards More details are here.

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