What does PICMG mean?
PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) The PICMG is a consortium of over 500 companies was founded in 1996. It develops specifications for computer technologies used by industrial, military and telecommunication applications. The main direction of the PICMG Association is to put the computer technologies from the general desktop computers market, to the market which requires more reliability and higher service conditions. The main part of such market consists of the industrial and telecommunication equipment based on the open platform. The main bus used in the modern comuters is the PCI bus, which had been issued as the know-how of the Intel Co. But now PCI architecture is become the open standard, used in many computer technologies. The first issue of the PICMG was the specification of the passive backplane, which is used standard method of modules installation for ISA and PCI buses through the lamellar connector (the contacts of the connector are on the card edge). So, t