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News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: Compact CHAMP-AV
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 April 2002
Champions of high-density real-time
computing
New from Force Computers, the CHAMP line of solutions for high-density, real-time computing applications includes boards, PCI mezzanine cards and optimised software libraries.
New from Force Computers, the CHAMP line of solutions for high-density, real-time computing applications includes boards, PCI mezzanine cards and optimised software libraries Designed, developed and tested by Force's Dy 4 Systems business unit, CHAMP is an acronym for common heterogeneous architecture for multiprocessing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Dec 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We can now offer the innovative CHAMP line as part of Force's diverse range of embedded computing capabilities, as we continually strive to offer cutting-edge technology to meet customer requirements", said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Force's Dy 4 Systems business unit.
"With their tightly integrated hardware and software, we'll leverage CHAMP products across Force's embedded experience and know-how to accomplish commercially viable economies of scale reducing end-user costs and increasing quality value-add.
Clearly, this extends the scope of applications to which Force can address its industry-leading embedded solutions".
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As the newest member of the CHAMP product family, the Compact CHAMP-AV single board computer offers PICMG 2.16 CompactPCI packet-switching backplane compliance, dual PMC slots and provides a flexible, powerful design that enables high I/O rates and data throughput.
It is the only product in the industry offering a triple-segmented architecture with the power and flexibility of a 200MHz IOPlus MPC8240 data-flow-control coprocessor, which offloads I/O tasks from onboard quadruple PowerPC 7410 AltiVec 500MHz processors.
Supported by an extensive array of code packages such as Dy 4's Board Resource Library, IOPlus software and HostAPI library as well as an AltiVec-optimised signal processing library (IXLibs-AV) and VxWorks and Linux board support packages (BSPs), the Compact CHAMP-AV board also features: more than 16GFLOPS peak floating-point performance; 3668MIPS fixed-point performance; bridge support for up to 400Mbyte/s cumulative onboard simultaneous data throughput; six onboard DMA controllers; 512Mbyte memory (supports all four processors); 64Mbyte of globally accessible SDRAM (64bit/100MHz); 64-256Mbyte per processor pair of local, dedicated SDRAM (64bit/100MHz); H.110 computer telephony bus interface (PICMG 2.5); and full hot swap support (PICMG 2.1).
The CHAMP board family supports integration of its sister StarLink board, a StarFabric architecture-based PMC that offers a flexible, easy-to-scale switched-fabric board interconnect system.
A result of fabric technology, StarLink offers the flexibility to automatically and transparently route packets through a network of switches to their ultimate destination.
Its various operating modes support streaming and time division multiplexing (TDM) data transmission methods as well as system structures for simple point-to-point, basic-mesh or even more elaborate topologies with redundant connections for high-availability applications.
Compact CHAMP-AV boards are available immediately in volume.
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