The Mountain View Alliance (MVA), a consortia of consortia dedicated to creating more coordinated approach to specifications and activities around platform design, today announced the acceptance of the RapidIO Trade Association as its latest member. The RapidIO Trade Association joins the Network Processing Forum (NPF), PICMG and the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) as part of the Alliance that provides a forum for the coordination of the marketing and technical activities of its member organizations.

The PICMG 3.0 specification defines the detailed characteristics of AdvancedTCA cards, chassis, and backplanes as well as the protocol for the base interconnect between cards (Ethernet) but leaves the protocols on the extended fabric to other specifications. An add-in card must notify the system manager which fabric it supports before interconnects are enabled onto the backplane. Serial RapidIO is the latest fabric to be mapped onto AdvancedTCA.