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Automatic Train Control (ATC) is a railway control, supervision and management system composed of three subsystems: Automatic Train Protection (ATP), Automatic Train Operation (ATO) and Automatic Train Supervision (ATS). The ATS system is responsible for monitoring and controlling the rail system to ensure that it conforms to an intended schedule and traffic pattern in order to optimize railway operations and service reliability. ATS helps to avoid or reduce damage resulting from system abnormalities and equipment malfunctions by performing the following tasks: supervision of train status, automatic routing selection, on-the-fly adjustment of train operations, automatic schedule creation, automatic operations logging, statistics and report generation, automatic system status monitoring, and coordination of personnel scheduling for train management.

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ADLINK CompactPCI Solutions: Enduring Performance

Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) Solution for Railway Signal System

Challenges

With increasing traffic loads and complexity of technology in the railway environment, an advanced computing platform with high vibration resistance, ease of expandability and low Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) is needed to meet the reliability and performance requirements of high-speed rail transportation.

ADLINK Solutions

CompactPCI systems are enabling Automatic Train Control (ATC) systems to solve today's critical railway problems by providing solutions featuring Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Scalability, and with increased ruggedness, shorter mean time to repair (MTTR), higher density and improved performance.

• Reliability

As Automatic Train Supervision (ATS) systems used for wayside control are located very close to railway tracks, the golden fingers of PCI cards employed by traditional industrial PCs are not robust enough to sustain the vibration caused by the passage of trains, resulting in system unreliability and instability, disruption of signal collection, and generation of communication errors. The worst case scenario is when railway operations come to a halt for equipment maintenance or repairs. To properly deal with heavier traffic loads and the increasing number of trains running on tracks, there has been an emerging trend to replace traditional platforms with CompactPCI products, which feature rugged hard metric connectors to provide reliable connections. ADLINK CompactPCI products are designed to meet the demands of harsh environments, withstand high shock and vibration, and operate in an extended temperature range of -40°C to 85°C, as well as having been fully tested for the railway operating environment in order to support EN50155 compliance.

• Availability

CompactPCI is a PICMG standard implemented on the Eurocard form factor that provides more rugged packaging and more secure interconnects than legacy PCI cards. CompactPCI is an open standard with off–the-shelf software support, ensuring compatibility of components available on the open market.

Employing CompactPCI products helps to shorten system development time, reduces maintenance costs and boosts overall system performance. ADLINK guarantees a product life cycle of 7 years, ensuring that mission critical applications such as railway transportation get full support and service for the full life of the system.

• Serviceability

Ideal for mission critical transportation applications, especially those for modern urban railway systems, CompactPCI allows operators to hot-swap blades without the need to open the chassis, thus reducing downtime and MTTR and allowing customers to save on resources required for maintenance. The modular design, front access and rear I/O availability of CompactPCI allows these systems the flexibility required for the various functions they perform.

• Scalability

CompactPCI combines a Eurocard-type connector and PCI signaling and protocols. The connectors and the electrical rules allow for eight boards in a PCI segment, making the systems highly scalable for the future needs. ADLINK's rich CompactPCI product portfolio with high-density I/O allows customers to create ultra-high density platforms for their applications.

ADLINK provides a wide range of CompactPCI processor blades, with CPUs ranging from low power Intel® Atom to high performance Intel® Core™, to meet the requirements of various control systems. With scalable peripherals including XMC & Wayside ATS System in China

PMC modules and Ethernet cards, as well as multi-segment backplanes, power supplies and chassis, customers can work with ADLINK to build their solutions. ADLINK is continually developing high performance, high density and power efficient products backed by software such as SEMA (Smart Embedded Management Agent) to shorten time to market for our customers. ADLINK has a selection of EN50155 compliant CompactPCI products to meet customers’ needs.

ADLINK has a selection of EN50155 compliant CompactPCI products to meet customers' needs.

cPCPI-3620 cPCI-39 70 cPCI-3E10 cPCI-3544

Benefits for Our Customer

Solve the shortcomings of traditional IPC platforms
Total solution including standard and customized products
Price competiveness and localized technical support
Higher system reliability, robustness and stability and longer service cycle

AdvancedTCA Switch Blade

aTCA-3430

3U CompactPCI Serial Blades

cPCI-A3525

CompactPCI/PlusIO/Serial

cPCI-6636

Embedded Flash Storage

2.5 inch SATA SSD Series

Machine Vision AI

Smart Pallet

COM-HPC Server Type

COM-HPC Ampere Altra

AdvancedTCA Switch Blade

aTCA-3430

ADLINK Edge SDK

Edge SDK

Medical Panel PCs

MLC-AL/ MLC-KL

Extreme Outdoor Servers

SETO-1000

COM Express Type 6

Express-TL

Mini-ITX Motherboards

AmITX-SL-G

Edge Server

MECS-6110

Machine Condition Monitoring

MCM-204

Embedded MXM Modules

EGX-MXM-T1000

Embedded MXM Modules

EGX-MXM-T1000

Expandable Fanless Embedded PCs

MVP-6100

Motion Control

PCIe-8158

Industrial Monitors

OM Series

Preliminary

Edge Server

MECS-6110

Deep Learning Inference Platforms

DLAP-301-JNX

Preliminary

Edge Server

PCIe-ACC100

Vision Systems

EOS-JNX Series

Industrial Monitors

IM-215

Preliminary

Machine Vision

PCIe-U300 Series

Integrated Fanless Embedded PCs

MVP-5100-MXM

Embedded MXM Modules

EGX-MXM-RTX3000

VPX 3U Processor Blades

VPX3020

Data Acquisition (DAQ)

USB-2401

Network Security Appliance

CSA-7400

ATX Motherboards

IMB-M45

Preliminary

COM Express Type 7

Express-ID7

Preliminary

Rugged SFF Platforms

HPERC-KBL-MH

ROS2 Solutions

ROScube-I

Medical Box PC

MLB-3000 / MLB-3002

COM Express Type 6

Express-TL

ADLINK Edge IoT

Digital Experiment

PC/104 SBCs