PICMG is a not-for-profit 501(c) consortium of companies and organizations that collaboratively develop open standards for high performance industrial, military/aerospace, telecommunications, test/measurement, medical, and general purpose embedded computing applications. There are over 150 member companies that specialize in a wide range of technical disciplines, including mechanical and thermal design, single board computer design, very high speed signaling design and analysis, networking expertise, backplane and packaging design, power management, High Availability software, and comprehensive system management. Founded in 1994, PICMGs original mission was to extend the PCI standard to non-desktop applications. The formal name of the organization is the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. Key specifications standards developed under the PICMG consortium include: - COM Express - COM-HPC - MicroTCA, AdvancedMC, and AdvancedTCA - ModBlox7 - CompactPCI and CompactPCISerial - Far Edge - SHB Express - HPM (Hardware Platform Management) You can find short form documents of the specifications on our website, as well as links to download the full documents.