I've been looking at some various PCB formats and found something I don't understand.
The original VME Bus format was called the Eurocard 6U and 3U formats. The 6U is 234mm X 160mm and the 3U is 100mm X 160mm. The 3U mechanical format was then adopted by Compact PCI (and some others).
As everything kept getting smaller some applications used a "Half Eurocard" format which should be 100mm X 80mm. However in looking for some cases to fit this board size I ran across several SBC's that were "Half Eurocard" but were 100mm X 71mm. Other boards use Half Eurocard to mean 100mm X 80mm. I'm very curious as to why?
I was under the impression that all the extension pieces for VME cards came in 60mm increments. So saying a half Eurocard was 100mm X 100mm would make more sense (at least to me) but a 9mm discrepency seems odd.
In any case, I did not find any cases for either of these sizes. (lots of stuff slightly bigger and smaller but nothing that you would just be able to drop a board into.)
Thanks for helping settle my curiosity.
Kevin
***************************************************************Kevin C. Castner kccnospam at glenevin dot com
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