As one of the three supported form factors for FAIR Beam Instrumentation µTCA was chosen. The main advantages of µTCA systems are the high bandwidth for very high data rates and the full remote control features. The standard was enhanced by DESY and other high energy physics labs to the MTCA.4 specification for Physics. This form factor could get a successor for VME.

Envisaged are DAQ systems for fast sampling ADCS eg BPM systems, scaler systems for higher sampling rates and video imaging systems.

So far BI has tested following µTCA parts:

• ELMA MTCA.4 6-Slot
• Schroff MTCA.4 6 Slot
• Vadatech VT811
• N.A.T. Native R2 6-Slot MTCA.4 2HE
• N.A.T. Native R9 12-Slot MTCA.4 9HE

• Kontron AM5010
• ADlink AMC-1000
• NAT-PHYS-RTM Comex
• Concurrent AM902/412-32

• div. NAT MCH (6 Slot, 12 Slot Phys)
• Vadatech UTC002

• SIS8300 10 Ch. ADC with RT
• AM4301 4 Port NIC
• TAMC260 1 Slot PMC-Carrier for AMC
• Dual HPC FMC Carrier board MTCA.4
• FMC ADC 250MHz 16 Bit
• SIS8300KU 10.Ch. ADC with RTM
• SIS8800 32 Ch. Scaler
• SIS8980 16 Ch LE Discriminator RTM
• Vadatech AMC217 8-Ch Switch
• SIS8864 64bit I/O