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News Release from: GDA Technologies | Subject: 8548E Data Cruncher
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 September 2007
Express platform for wireless
infrastructure
Card is designed with four high-performance gigabit Ethernet interfaces and up to eight lanes of PCI Express verified in both target and host modes.
New from GDA Technologies, the 8548E Data Cruncher is a PCI-Express card equipped with four gigabit Ethernet ports using Freescale Semiconductor's MPC8548E PowerQUICC III processor built on Power Architecture technology Intended for use in MicroTCA and ATCA or plugged into x86 systems, the MPC8548E-based PCI-Express card is designed with four high-performance gigabit Ethernet interfaces and up to eight lanes of PCI Express verified in both target and host modes, for embedded applications in pervasive computing, media servers, storage networking, wireless infrastructure, enterprise network access systems and next generation telecommunication systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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This control plane driver, running on both the host and target systems, directly interfaces the applications and controls the MPC8548E DMA engine for all data transfers between the host system and the target over the PCI-Express.
The integrated encryption algorithms in 8548E used for secure data transfer over the quad gigabit Ethernet ports complete the feature list and makes this system suitable for applications like storage networking, media server etc.
GDA is currently working with leading software application stack providers to provide targeted software solutions such as TCP/IP offload engine, VPN client and security engine, to enable this platform into shippable end products at a rapid pace.
"A range of products based on PowerQUICC III is aimed at helping our customers accelerate their own innovations and get to market much faster and with significantly reduced risk", says Gopa Periyadan, VP and GM of the System and Software unit at GDA Technologies.
"In fact, GDA is one of the first companies to offer the leading-edge MPC8548E on a high-performance industry-standard platform with a standard AMC connector and can also run seamlessly in target mode and supported with Linux source code".
"The MPC8548E-based Data Cruncher is the latest addition to GDA's portfolio of Freescale PowerQUICC III processor-based reference platforms, which have already become segment bestsellers".
"The GDA 8548E PCI-Express card - is already available for sale from HiTech Global and Arrow Electronics".
With its included encryption capability for the ETSI implementation of the Kasumi (Misty) algorithm (F8/F9) needed for 3G GSM voice encryption support, the GDA 8548E PCI-Express card is an ideal compute platform for wireless infrastructure applications.
Also included is support for DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1/2, AES, RSA, RNG and ARC-4 encryption algorithms enabling robust communications at very high speeds combined with TCP/IP checksum acceleration and QoS support.
XOR acceleration in hardware also supports software based RAID systems, allowing for integration of networks to storage systems.
"With the MPC8548E based Data Cruncher and AdvancedMC solutions, embedded developers and system integrators who desire the powerful capabilities of PowerQUICC III processors may quickly migrate to higher performance levels while leveraging proven development platforms to reduce the time and cost of getting to market".
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