PICMG. PICMG, or PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, is a consortium of over 140 companies in the fields of computer science and engineering. Founded in 1994, the group was originally formed to adapt PCI technology for use in high-performance telecommunications, military, and industrial computing applications, but its work has grown to include newer technologies. PICMG currently focuses on developing and implementing specifications and guidelines for open standardsbased computer architectures from a wide variety of interconnects.

History
The original PICMG mission was to provide extensions to the PCI standard developed by PCI-SIG for a range of applications. The organization's collaborations eventually expanded to include a variety of interconnect technologies for industrial computing and telecommunications. PICMG's specifications are used in a wide variety of industries including industrial automation, military, aerospace, telecommunications, medical, gaming, transportation, physics/research, test and measurement, energy, drone/robotics, and general embedded computing.

In 2011, PICMG completed its transfer of assets from the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA). Since 2006, CP-TA had been a collaboration of communications vendors, developing interoperability testing requirements, methodologies, and procedures based on open specifications from PICMG, The Linux Foundation, and the Service Availability Forum. PICMG has continued the educational and marketing outreach formerly conducted by members of the CP-TA marketing work group.

Specification naming convention
For many years, PICMG used a numerical naming convention with specification being referred to as “PICMG X.YY”. Where X was used to denote differing form factors ("1" for slot card based single board computers, "2" for CompactPCI, and "3" for AdvancedTCA) while YY was used to indicate incremental changes, option definitions, or a slight variation of a specification form its core specification. In 2003, PICMG added an acronym-based naming convention for its specifications to yield better results from internet search engines. Specifications are now often named ABCD.X where ABCD is an acronym of the specification. In this naming convention, base or main specifications are denoted with X=0 (i.e. ABCD.0), and PICMG subsidiary specifications are denoted X>0. PICMG subsidiary specifications represent how various options or variations of a based specification should be handled.

List of adopted specifications

 PICMG 1.0  PCI/ISA
 PICMG 1.1  PCI/ISA Bridging
 PICMG 1.2  PCI only
 PICMG 1.3  SHB Express
 PICMG 2.0  CompactPCI
 PICMG 2.1  CompactPCI Hotswap
 PICMG 2.2  CompactPCI VME64x
 PICMG 2.3  CompactPCI PMC I/O
 PICMG 2.4  CompactPCI IP I/O
 PICMG 2.5  CompactPCI Telephony
 PICMG 2.7  Dual CompactPCI
 PICMG 2.9  CompactPCI Management
 PICMG 2.10  CompactPCI Keying
 PICMG 2.11  CompactPCI Power Interface
 PICMG 2.12  CompactPCI Software Interoperability
 PICMG 2.14  CompactPCI Multicomputing
 PICMG 2.15  CompactPCI PTMC
 PICMG 2.16  CompactPCI Packet Switching Backplane (PSB)
 PICMG 2.17  CompactPCI Starfabric
 PICMG 2.18  CompactPCI RapidIO
 PICMG 2.20  CompactPCI Serial Mesh
 PICMG 2.30  CompactPCI PlusIO
 CPCI-S.0  CompactPCI Serial
 CPCI-S.1  CompactPCI Serial for Space
 PICMG 3.0  AdvancedTCA Base
 PICMG 3.1  AdvancedTCA Ethernet
 PICMG 3.2  AdvancedTCA Infiniband
 PICMG 3.3  AdvancedTCA StarFabric
 PICMG 3.4  AdvancedTCA PCI Express
 PICMG 3.5  AdvancedTCA RapidIO
 PICMG 3.7  AdvancedTCA Extensions
 AMC.0  AdvancedMC Mezzanine Module
 AMC.1  AdvancedMC PCI Express and AS
 AMC.2  AdvancedMC Ethernet
 AMC.3  AdvancedMC Storage
 AMC.4  AdvancedMC Serial RapidIO
 IRTM.0  Intelligent Rear Transition Module
 SFP.0  System Fabric Plane
 SFP.1  iTDM
 EXP.0  CompactPCI Express
 COM.0  Computer on Module
 CDG  COM Design Guide
 MTCA.0  MicroTCA
 MTCA.1  Air-cooled rugged MicroTCA
 MTCA.3  Hardened conduction-cooled MicroTCA
 MTCA.4  MicroTCA Enhancements for Rear I/O & Precision Timing

See also
 PCI-SIG
 Eurocard (printed circuit board)

References

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Standards organizations in the United States
Technology consortia
Organizations established in 1994
Open standards
Peripheral Component Interconnect