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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: PmPPC7447
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 April 2004
Mezzanine card boosts telecomms
processing power
A new PowerPC-based PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) adds processing power to telecomms infrastructure applications.
A new PowerPC-based PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) adds processing power to telecomms infrastructure applications Dubbed the PmPPC7447, the new processor PMC (PrPMC) card consumes just 18W of power and features a 1GHz Motorola PowerPC7447A processor, 2Gbyte of memory and three Ethernet ports
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PmPPC7447 makes an ideal control plane processor for optical and wireless infrastructure.
It is also well suited for augmenting packet processing and routing performance in voice gateways, and for enhancing protocol processing performance in SS7 and Sigtran signalling control points and gateways.
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"Our processor PMC modules give designers a flexible way to add processing power to telecom systems", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Marketing at Artesyn.
"These modules make it easy for equipment designers utilising standard or custom platforms to significantly boost control and packet processing performance for applications ranging from soft switches and signalling control points to base station controllers and media gateways".
The PmPPC7447 combines a 1GHz Motorola PowerPC MPC7447A processor with a Marvell Discovery III system controller.
The MPC7447A features an Altivec vector processing unit and is equipped with 32Kbyte of on-die L1 instruction/data cache and 512Kbyte of on-die L2 cache.
The Discovery controller gives the processor high-speed accesses to up to 2Gbyte of external memory via its 133MHz processor bus.
Additional memory support includes either 32 or 64Mbyte of Flash memory.
The PmPPC7447 features two Gigabit 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet ports, which are routed to the PMC connector, and one 10/100Base-TX Ethernet port, which is routed to the module's front bezel.
The module also provides an I2C bus system management controller, two RS232 serial ports, and a four-channel DMA controller, which boosts overall performance by facilitating high-speed data movement between module resources without CPU intervention.
The PmPPC7447 operates from a 3.3V DC power supply, typically consumes 18W, and operates over a 0-50C temperature range.
The module complies with all major safety, EMC, and environmental standards, including IEC60950/EN60950, UL60950, CSA C22.2, Global IEC - CB Scheme Report IEC60950, NEBS Telecordia GR-63, and GR1089 Level 3, FCC Part 15 (USA and Canada), and ETSI EN300386-V1.3.1.
Software support for the PmPPC7447 includes Wind River Systems' VxWorks 5.5 and Linux 2.4.22.
The module also provides a monitor with power-on self-test.
The PmPPC7447 costs less than $1000 in OEM volumes.
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