Pixus Offers Versatile Alarm Card for Fan and Voltage Monitoring and Control

Pixus Technologies offers an alarm card that can be used in various OpenVPX, VME/VME64x, CompactPCI, cPCI Serial, and other open standard architecture chassis platforms.

The Pixus micro alarm card provides the system with basic monitoring and control functions including; voltage levels, power supply health, temperature, and fan monitoring/control. The board monitors the four common power rails in Eurocard-based systems of 5V, 3.3V, 12V, and -12V.  It also provides for the monitoring and control of up to four fans and the monitoring of two temperature sensors.   Other features include a local bi-color LED and header for remote LEDs, an alarm cancel push button, and a USB interface.

Pixus offers high-performance OpenVPX and other open standard architecture backplanes, chassis platforms, and specialty products.  The company also provides customizable faceplates, ejector handles, card guides, and other components.