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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: PrAMC-6210
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2008
Mezzanine card supports old PowerPC code
Designed to provide modular, upgradeable, computing power for manufacturers of telecomms, defence, aerospace, homeland security and industrial automation equipment.
New from Emerson Network Power, the PrAMC-6210 is a next-generation Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) available for a volume price of under US $2000 Available in both full- and mid-size versions for AdvancedTCA (ATCA), MicroTCA and proprietary architecture systems, the PrAMC-6210 is based on Freescale's MPC8641D PowerPC dual-core processor
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PrAMC-6210 is designed to provide modular, upgradeable, computing power for manufacturers of telecommunications, defence, aerospace, homeland security and industrial automation equipment.
OEMs can use the PrAMC-6210 to boost the performance of their existing Power Architecture applications, such as protocol processing, packet processing, data management and I/O management, while lowering their total cost of ownership by consolidating hardware.
"Emerson is continuing to drive down the cost of MicroTCA technology with this new AMC", says Jeff Durst, Program Director of Processors for the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power.
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"The availability of the PrAMC-6210 broadens the ATCA and MicroTCA ecosystem by giving the industry an additional high performance-low-power choice to support legacy PowerPC application code".
The PrAMC-6210 is equipped with carrier grade features, such as a dual-Flash-bank architecture and a high MTBF, enabling network equipment providers to address high availability requirements.
It also gives the industry a high performance, low-power choice to support legacy PowerPC application code.
To support high-speed packet data transfers on and off the card, the PrAMC-6210 features Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and PCI Express (PCIe) interfaces to the carrier or backplane.
With ever-increasing application and data transfer requirements, this combination of more traditional GbE interfaces and the emerging PCIe interface allows developers to easily migrate existing applications.
Emerson expects PrAMC-6210 modules to be available in the second quarter of 2008.
In addition to being offered for purchase as a stand-alone module, Emerson Network Power will integrate the PrAMC-6210 into its MicroTCA system product lines to accelerate customers' ability to take advantage of the new technology.
Operating system support includes MontaVista CGE Linux OS, Wind River Platform for Network Equipment-Linux Edition and Wind River VxWorks RTOS.
The PrAMC-6210 will be part of Emerson Network Power's showcase of market-leading ATCA, MicroTCA and AMC products at Embedded World, to be held from 26th to 28th February 2008 in Nuremberg, Germany.
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