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News Release from: Mercury Computer Systems | Subject: Ensemble MPC-102
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2007
AMC provides processing power
The dense processing capability of the dual-core Freescale 8641D is provided in a flexible AMC form factor supporting 10Gbit/s raw I/O bandwidth through the RapidIO interface.
Mercury Computer Systems has released the Ensemble MPC-102 AMC (advanced mezzanine card) module, combining dual-core processing power, flexible I/O, and a choice of RapidIO or PCI Express connectivity for AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA platforms The MPC-102 will be featured in the RapidIO Trade Association booth at the AdvancedTCA Summit Europe 2007, to be held 18th-19th September near Paris, France
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The dense processing capability of the dual-core Freescale 8641D, with a high core frequency, 1Mbyte of L2 cache per core, and integrated on-chip I/O subsystem with RapidIO, is provided in a flexible AMC form factor supporting 10Gbit/s raw I/O bandwidth through the RapidIO interface.
The dual-core 8641D doubles the performance of Mercury's previous AMCs built on Power Architecture processors.
This combination of processing density and bandwidth makes the MPC-102 ideal for telecom applications such as data communications, control, and wireless test equipment.
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"We're pleased to host Mercury at the ATCA Summit, and to feature the latest serial RapidIO-based module for the MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA platforms", said Tom Cox, Executive Director of the RapidIO Trade Association.
"Mercury's long-standing leadership in developing advanced performance capabilities for the embedded computing industry is exemplified by its ability to both pioneer and leverage technologies that become industry standards - such their co-development with Motorola on the RapidIO interconnect standard".
The MPC-102 is a control and signal processing AMC that provides a dual-core e600 8641D PowerPC processor at up to 1.3GHz with up to 2Gbyte DDR2 memory, SATA, RapidIO or PCI-E, and GigE connectivity.
The module is AMC.0-compliant and designed to meet AMC.4.
The SATA interface supports a HDD in the neighboring AMC bay, making it suitable for use as a host or control node.
The architecture and AltiVec vector processing units of the e600 core are compatible with Mercury's Scientific Algorithm Library, supporting use of the MPC-102 in dense floating-point processing applications such as radar, sonar, and image inspection.
The MPC-102 8641D AMC expands the capabilities of the Mercury Ensemble family of AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA platforms to support high-density control plane applications.
The Ensemble AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA platform is designed around the performance and reliability of the Serial RapidIO embedded system interconnect.
Ensemble delivers high levels of integration and flexibility across a broad class of heterogeneous processing architectures that includes digital signal processors, communications processors, FPGAs and network processors.
This flexibility and strong development support has resulted in major telecom equipment manufacturers around the world employing Ensemble platforms to trial and demonstrate LTE, HSPA, PHS and other wireless standards.
The addition of the MPC-102 increases the processing density of Ensemble platforms and supports the development of high-end MicroTCA systems.
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