NEXUS STAR Concept

Interface Boards

The following boards are available for NEXUS STAR:

• RBPR Backplane featuring one or more XPSU power-supply units
• RCX NEXUS STAR controller board and routing matrix
• RMF MADI audio-I/O board
• RFOC Optical interface board for connecting to standard NEXUS Base Devices which offer I/O interfaces in various audio formats such as A/D, D/A, AES/EBU, MADI, Y2, TDIF, SDIF-2 SDI, HD-SDI, 3G-SDI, ADAT, or Dolby E.
• RSYNC synchronisation board allowing for synchronising the NEXUS STAR system to a video clock or other sources.

All boards except the RBPR backplanes and the power-supply units are implemented as service-friendly slot-in boards. The universal bus system enables optical, MADI, or mixer boards to be installed in NEXUS STAR slots as required.
All slot-in boards feature standard ports. Future standards are also considered in the design.