VME SBC Boasts Latest Low-Power Core2 Duo Processor

Perhaps the greatest triumph of VME is its capability to maintain backward compatibility while remaining suited to incorporating new computing elements as they evolve. Exemplifying this trend is Aitech Defense Systems’ new 6U VME SBC using Intel’s latest T7500 low-power, high-performance Merom Core 2 Duo dual core processors. The new C160 is designed for rugged, mission-critical mobile applications requiring exceptionally low power and high processing throughput.

The new single-slot C160 now offers clock frequencies up to 2.2 GHz for the high-performance version and 1.67 GHz for the low-power version, which draws only 25W. The new board also uses Intel’s Virtualization Technology (VT), enabling the board to run different applications simultaneously using multiple virtual partitions. The fully featured C160 incorporates a custom metal thermal management frame supporting an array of integral stiffeners for increased resistance against high shock and vibration. The board offers large memory arrays providing extensive volatile and nonvolatile memory resources. These include up to 2 Gbytes fast DDR2 SDRAM operating at 667 MHz and up to 8 Gbytes of onboard flash disk (NAND Flash), with IDE controller eliminating the need for externally attached mass-storage media. OEM pricing for the C160 6U VME SBC starts at $6,050.

Aitech Defense Systems
Chatsworth, CA.
(888) 248-3248.
[www.rugged.com].

Conduction-Cooled DSP/FPGA-Based VXS Card

VXS has found a solid niche as a “here and now” solution for marrying switched fabric performance with legacy VME backward compatibility. BittWare’s latest VXS offering is the GT-6U-VME (GTV6), which features two Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs (2SGX90 or 130), two processing clusters consisting of two ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs from Analog Devices, and up to 3 Gbytes of DDR2 SDRAM memory. This conduction-cooled board is optimized for high-end, multiprocessing applications, while also providing complete flexibility for future adaptability, ideal for existing and future military applications requiring embedded signal processing in a VXS/VITA 41 form factor.

The GTV6 implements a dual BittWare ATLANTiS framework to interface between the FPGAs and DSPs. The GTV6 also features two clusters of two ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC DSPs, which are interconnected by a 64-bit cluster bus running at 83.3 MHz.

BittWare
Concord, NH.
(603) 226-0404.
[www.bittware.com].

1.6 GHz Atom N270 Processor Powers VME SBC

With a power consumption of under 20W, a new ultra-low-power VME single board computer is based on the Intel Atom processor. The VP A45/01x from Concurrent Technologies uses the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor N270 and the Intel 945GSE Express chipset both from the Intel embedded roadmap, ensuring long-term availability. With 2 Gbyte DDR2-533 SDRAM, this ultra-low-power board also supports a variety of peripheral I/O ports, flash drive, CompactFlash site and PMC/XMC modules.

Commercial and extended temperature versions are now available, and ruggedized, conduction-cooled or air-cooled (to VITA 47) versions will be available shortly. With a wide range of flexible I/O, the VP A45/01x supports a PMC/XMC site with front I/O and P2 rear I/O (VITA35 P4V2-64ac) plus a second 33 MHz PMC site with front I/O and rear I/O via the optional P0. A range of onboard I/O is available to the user: two Ethernet interfaces, a USB 2.0 port and an RS-232 interface via the front panel, whilst the rear panel I/O includes digital 3D graphics (2048 x 1536), keyboard, mouse, four GPIO signals, two USB 2.0 ports, an RS--232/RS422/RS-485 port and two SATA150 interfaces. The optional P0 also supports two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.

Concurrent Technologies
Woburn, MA.
(781) 933 5900.
[www.gocct.com].

VPX SBC Serves 8-Core Freescale QorIQ CPU

Compute-density has become the watchword in many of today’s military applications, and multicore processors help to feed that need. Along just those lines, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the VPX6-187, its first single board computer based on Freescale’s latest eight-core QorIQ P4080 Communications Processor. This rugged, high-performance 6U VPX general-purpose SBC supports its eight 1.5 GHz Power Architecture processor cores with high-performance datapath acceleration logic, network and peripheral bus interfaces.