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News Release from: Aitech Defense Systems | Subject: C106
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 March 2005
VME SBC handles harsh-environment
applications
The rugged new C106 single board computer is a VME64x-compliant solution featuring up to 1.5GHz of processing power and 4Gbyte of onboard NAND Flash memory.
Available now from Aitech Defense Systems, the rugged new C106 single board computer (SBC) is a VME64x-compliant solution featuring up to 1.5GHz of processing power and 4Gbyte of onboard NAND Flash memory The new SBC is designed to satisfy the demands for expanded I/O capabilities and powerful processing in harsh-environment applications, such as mission computers, remotely piloted vehicles, fire control processing, platform stabilisation and mission control subsystems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The integrated onboard NAND Flash memory, which functions similarly to a USB memory stick without the need for a PMC site or USB interface, is independent of user application program Flash.
In addition, the newly upgraded C106 features Flash memory manager (FMM) software that automatically treats the Flash memory as the system's disk drive, with automatic wear leveling to ensure that write-erase cycles are uniformly balanced across the entire device, preventing any one block from wearing out.
The board's unique, onboard Flash file system (FFS) is perfect for storing large local maps and databases as well as capturing Sigint waveforms, radar or sonar images, mission data profiles, and health data.
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Built around a high-performance Motorola PowerPC G4+ MPC7447A microprocessor with integrated on-chip L1 and L2 caches, the unit provides an unprecedented array of versatile onboard I/O interfaces.
These include three fast Ethernet ports, two dual- redundant MIL-STD-1553B interfaces, two USB 2.0 ports, ten standard UART serial ports, and several types of discrete I/O channels.
In addition to its enhanced onboard I/O capabilities, the C106 is also equipped for expansion with two onboard PMC sites and 64bit 66MHz PCIbus on P0, and offers up to 1Gbyte of onboard SDRAM operating at 133MHz.
The C106 supports several real-time operating systems (RTOS) including WindRiver VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity and Integrity-178, and TimeSys Embedded Linux.
Other RTOS board support packages are available on request.
An extensive firmware package is supplied with each board - including startup software, diagnostic tools, and monitoring/debugging tools.
Users can specify C106 SBCs to meet one of three levels of ruggedisation - commercial, rugged or military.
The boards are also available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled formats, each as a single-slot 6U module.
Pricing for the C106 starts at $6400, with production units available from stock.
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