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News Release from: Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing | Subject: 5385
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 September 2002
Board takes over when others are on
their knees
The 5385 CompactPCI controller blade is designed to deliver the extreme levels of performance and bandwidth demanded by many of today's telecomms, industrial control and medical imaging applications.
The 5385 CompactPCI controller blade is designed to deliver the extreme levels of performance and bandwidth demanded by many of today's telecomms, industrial control and medical imaging applications Featuring a 1.2GHz Mobile Intel Pentium III-M processor, the 5385 is Motorola's fastest ever CompactPCI board
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Motorola has designed the 5385 to exploit this innovative architecture by including dual gigabit Ethernet interfaces to support PICMG 2.16 CPSB switched fabric backplane architectures.
Compliance with the PICMG 2.1 hot swap specification and support for Motorola's Advanced High Availability Software for Linux makes the 5385 an ideal open architecture building block for mission-critical applications requiring 99.999% or higher service availability.
It also supports PICMG 2.9 IPMI intelligent platform management interface, which defines a standard for chassis management, and industry standard operating systems such as Linux, Windows 2000 and VxWorks.
An industry standard 32/64bit mezzanine expansion site enables equipment manufacturers to add a PMC module to customise the 5385 and create an application specific network blade.
"The 5385 is a dramatic leap in all areas that impact performance and shows that a balanced design can make short work of tasks that bring other CompactPCI boards to their knees", said Harry Weber, product manager, Motorola Computer Group.
"We have brought together one of our most aggressive prices with leading edge performance and memory density on this blade to make it as easy as possible for equipment manufacturers to take advantage of state-of-the-art technology.
This architecture brings the benefits of commercial technology to our embedded customers".
Samples of the 5385 are available now to early adopter customers and Motorola anticipates full production in Q4 2002 at a list price of $2995.
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