Bascom Hunter’s new 3U VPX chassis is a flexible architecture for customers to build unique solutions for communications, electronic warfare, machine learning and more. The base chassis provides the power, cooling and slots to enable a high density of 3U VPX Cards within a 3U rack-mount enclosure. The chassis can also be purchased with a custom backplane designed for COTS VPX cards to accelerate development and deployment.

The 3U VPX chassis an industry leading product that has 1.2 kW of cooling capacity. The chassis can hold up to 14 VPX cards and includes a chassis manager and integrated power supply. Rear connections can be customized based on the application.

This chassis can be purchased with a SOSA-aligned VPX backplane with slot profiles for Single Board Computers, Network Cards, Storage and RFSoC (or other payload cards). The backplane has 2x 40GE lanes for high-speed data.

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KEY FEATURES 

  • VITA 46.11 Chassis Management controller
  • Eight 40G-KR4 data plane slot connections
  • Ten 10G-KR control plane slot connections
  • VITA-66.5 Hybrid Fiber Coax – 2 Style C Inserts and 20 NanoRF Contacts
  • Card slot profiles aligned to SOSA and HOST standards:
    • Payload
    • Storage
    • SBC
    • Switch 

Storage Slot Profile Single Board Computer Slot Profile Networking Card Slot Profile RFSOC Slot Profile
Slot Profile SLT3-PER-1F-14.3.2 SLT3-PAY-1F1F2U1TU1T1U1T-14.2.16 SLT3-SWH-6F8U-14.4.15 SLT3-PAY-1F1U1S1S1U1U2F1H-14.6.11-n
Module Profile SLT3-PAY-1F1U1S1S1U1U2F1H-14.6.11 MOD3-PAY-1F1F2U1TU1T1U1T-16.2.15-4 MOD3-SWH-6F8U-16.4.10-n MOD3-PAY-1F1U1S1S1U1U2F1H
Example COTS MFG Red Rock Technologies Abaco Systems Abaco Systems Abaco Systems
Example COTS MFG PN RRT-3UVPX-NVMe-R-C SBC3511 SWE440S VP431
PHYSICAL
Dimensions
  • 19" x 17" x 5.25" (chassis only)
  • 22" x 17" x 5.25" (chassis + rail)
  • 22" x 17" x 5.25" (chassis + rail)
Weight 32 lbs. (unpopulated)
ELECTRICAL
Power Supply SX1000 Platinum
Input Voltage 100 - 240V
Input Current 12 - 6A
Output Voltage +3.3V, +5, +12V Power
Output Current 25A, 83.3A
CONNECTORS
  • 5x N-Type connectors
  • 3x Ethernet RJ45 ports
  • 1x Power Input