About Advanced Mezzanine Card 

In order to provide extensions capabilities to the AdvancedTCA modules, PICMG defined the Advanced Mezzanine Card architecture, AdvancedMC or AMCs. These cards had to support also how swap and management functionalities, in order to realize the high availability of the ATCA modules and systems.

It is the first entirely new open mezzanine standard to be developed in more than a decade. AdvancedMC cards are switch fabric based, hot-swappable, and fully managed. The AdvancedMC series of specifications follows the numbering pattern set by AdvancedTCA, where AMC.0 creates the foundation for the Mezzanine Cards with definition of form factor, connector, power and thermal characteristics, management, clocking and base fabric. AMC.1 maps PCI-Express onto the extended fabric interface. Additional specifications to support Ethernet and Serial Rapid I/O are near completion and will be released as AMC.2 and AMC.4 respectively.
Though the specifications were developed to meet stringent telecom requirements for reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability, AMC module characteristics are expected to appeal to many other markets as well.
While AdvancedMC was developed to be compatible with the AdvancedTCA architecture, AdvancedMC modules will be used in conjunction with other platform architectures, including some unique new systems that will consist exclusively of AdvancedMC modules. As its predecessors have shown, good mezzanine cards will be used wherever they can fit, which will encompass a wide range of carrier form factors and applications.

There are different mechanical sizes defined for of AdvancedMCs. The largest is the Full-Height, Double-Width AdvancedMC, which occupies a mechanical volume of 150 x 187.3 x 30.48 mm.  

AMC Module configuration examples

Be aware with AMCs that, as they originated as mezzanine modules, the width is the height of the board size, and the height deal with the width of the front panel if vertically mounted.

Review the short form version of the current AMC core specification, 

The complete specifications can be obtained from PICMG Europe by using our order form.