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News Release from: Mistral Software | Subject: VPX6-185
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 October 2006
VITA 46 SBC has advanced I/O options
Mistral Solutions has the industry's first VITA 46 (VPX)-based single board computer (SBC) from Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing.
Mistral Solutions has the industry's first VITA 46 (VPX)-based single board computer (SBC) from Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing The VPX6-185 combines the performance and the advanced I/O capabilities of the Freescale 8641 processor with an extensive I/O complement to provide a highly capable processing platform for a wide range of embedded military/aerospace applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The VPX standard, collaboratively developed by COTS industry leaders and prime military integrators, delivers a high-speed serial interconnect with a form-factor and feature set specifically designed to meet demanding military/aerospace applications.
The VPX6-185's processing engine is the Freescale 8641 single/dual-core PowerPC device.
With its dual integrated 64bit memory controllers, it offers vastly increased memory performance compared with prior generations of PowerPC processors.
The core-processing feature of the VPX6-185 includes 2Gbyte of DDR II-266 SDRAM with ECC and 512Mbyte of Flash with write protection.
Its I/O features includes a full master/slave VME64 interface, an onboard Serial RapidIO interconnect, three gigabit Ethernet ports, six serial I/O channels, two full MIL-STD-1553 channels, two Serial ATA 1.0 ports and 16 discrete LVTTL I/O signals.
For core backplane connectivity, the VPX6-185 incorporates four Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) switch ports.
For integration with high-density computing products such as Curtiss-Wright's CHAMP-AV6 VPX-based DSP engine, the VPX6-185 also provides Serial RapidIO connectivity.
The dual XMC/PMC sites on the VPX6-185 conform to the VITA 42.3 standard.
With PCI Express connectivity, the two XMC sites provide the high bandwidth to memory required for high-performance graphics, networking and data acquisition modules.
A key enabler to the unmatched capabilities of the VPX6-185 is the VPX format, which provides backplane connectors capable of handling signalling speeds of up to 6.25Gbit/s.
The VPX connectors also include an ESD protection mechanism that enables the VPX6-185 to be safely handled in flight-line.
Software support for the VPX6-185 includes BSPs and driver suites for VxWorks 6.x with Wind River Workbench 2.0, Integrity 6.x and Linux 2.6.
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