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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: Pm8560
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 August 2005
Mezzanine card houses powerful protocol
engine
The Pm8560 is an octal E1/T1 ProcessorPMC protocol engine based on the PowerQUICC III MPC8560 communication controller.
New from Artesyn Communication Products, the Pm8560 is an octal E1/T1 ProcessorPMC protocol engine based on the PowerQUICC III MPC8560 communication controller Equipped with 512Mbyte of SDRAM, 32Mbyte of Flash memory, and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, the new module is optimised for protocol processing applications such as SS7/Sigtran signalling and ATM AAL-5
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Pm8560 gives telecomms OEMs an easy way to add protocol processing and signalling capability to telecomms systems equipped with PMC or PTMC (PCI Telephony Mezzanine Card) expansion slots, including Artesyn's own Katana AdvancedTCA and PICMG 2.16 (Compact PCI packet switching backplane) blades.
The Pm8560's high performance and versatile protocol support makes it ideal for a wide range of applications requiring multiple E1/T1/J1 interfaces for protocol and packet processing, including VoIP gateways, signalling gateways, basestation controllers, radio network controllers and base transceiver stations.
"The MPC8560's high-performance PowerPC core and versatile communications processor make it an excellent protocol engine", said Todd Wynia, Vice President of Marketing at Artesyn.
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"The Pm8560's integrated MPC8560, multichannel T1/E1 interface, Gigabit Ethernet packet interface, and convenient PrPMC form factor make it easy for telecom OEMs to take full advantage of the MPC8560 and add high-speed packet/protocol processing and signalling to a wide range of telecom systems".
Freescale's PowerQUICC III MPC8560 provides the compute and protocol engine for the Pm8560.
Combining a PowerPC Book E e500 core with a multichannel communications processor module (CPM), the MPC8560 operates at 800MHz, features a single-precision floating point unit with SIMD capability and delivers a peak performance of up to 1850MIPS.
The RISC-based CPM features three fast serial communications controllers (FCCs), two multichannel controllers (MCCs), four serial communications controllers (SCCs), one serial peripheral interface (SPI) and an I2C interface.
The MPC8560 also includes a 64bit PCI/X/PCI controller, RapidIO port, and a pair of 10/100/1000 Ethernet controllers.
The Pm8560's mezzanine interface is IEEE1386.1 (PMC) compliant.
It also includes a subset of PICMG 2.15 PTMC Configuration 2 features.
The Pm8560's E1/T1 interfaces reside on a rear transition module installed on the baseboard.
After processing the data and converting it to a packet format, the Pm8560 can send it back to the baseboard for additional processing or transmission over the backplane (ie PICMG 2.16 or AdvancedTCA).
It can also transmit the data directly to a packet network via its 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet port.
The Pm8560 complies with all major safety, EMC, and environmental standards, including IEC60950/EN60950, UL60950, CSA C22.2, Global IEC - CB Scheme Report IEC 60950), NEBS Telecordia GR-63, and GR1089 Level 3, FCC Part 15 (USA and Canada), and ETSI EN300386-V1.3.1.
Operating system support for the Pm8560 includes MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux CGE3.1.
The Pm8560 sells in OEM quantities for $1497.
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