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News Release from: Actis Computer | Subject: VSBX-6560
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 September 2006
Third-generation PowerQUICC board
upgrades VME
The VSBX-6560 is billed as the perfect replacement solution for all existing VME CPU boards from Motorola which are now in EOL due to the RoHS directives.
Actis Computer has released its third generation of VME single board computer After the original PowerQUICC II 8260 at 200MHz in 2001, and the improved 8270 at 450MHz last year, Actis' newest PowerQUICC III VME single board computer is designed with a 8560 processor running at 833MHz and offering performance of 1926DMIPS
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Double performance given at two-thirds price
Second generation single board computer offers more than twice the performance for two thirds the price of its predecessor and features the PowerQUICC 2, using 0.13um technology.
This new VMEboard is compliant with the VME rev C legacy standard, doesn't require the new VMEbus extension (5 row connectors, P0, 3.3V supply) and is therefore fully compatible with all existing VME backplanes.
The VSBX-6560 is the perfect replacement solution for all existing VME CPU boards from Motorola which are now in EOL due to the RoHS directives.
In addition, the VSBX-6560 is a perfect extension to Actis' VSBC-6872 with twice the performance, two Gigabit Ethernet and one Fast Ethernet ports (instead of three Fast Ethernet ports) and DDR SDRAM, while remaining fully compatible for software applications and front panel connectors.
The VSBX-6560 supports up to 1Gbyte of DDR SDRAM, 32Mbyte of Flash, 1Mbyte of SRAM and a CompactFlash socket.
For I/O, in addition to the three Ethernet ports already listed, the VSBX-6560 supports two S-ATA ports, the four HDLC ports common to all PowerQUICC boards, and two UART ports for general purposes.
Software support for the VSBX-6560 includes Linux by Ecrin BSP and VxWorks BSP.
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