Monday, 19 January 2015

Term Of the Day – “ PCI Mezanine Card ”


A PCI Mezanine Card is a printed circuit board generally used to extend the connectivity and function of a compatible computer System . PMC typically has all features of a PCI bus as well as the physical attributes of a Common Mezanine Card (CMC) format .

It is a peripheral card that is used to extend the functionality of a system by connecting the peripheral devices and provide service as a data acquisition card for industrial setting such as Sensors , Sonar and like wise . These functionalities often yield analog signals , so it is the function of the card to convert them to machine-readable and human-readable forms .


It is generally used for systems such as VMEbus , Futurebus+ and other systems supporting the PCI specifications .

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