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News Release from: Mistral Software | Subject: CHAMP-AV 6
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 January 2007
Digital processing engine meets VPX
standard
The CHAMP-AV6 combines quad PowerPC 8641 devices with the serial switched fabric capabilities made possible by VPX, the new military aerospace COTS board standard.
Available now from Mistral Solutions, the CHAMP-AV 6 is billed as the industry's first VITA 46(VPX)-digital processing engine from Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing The CHAMP-AV6 combines quad PowerPC 8641 devices with the serial switched fabric capabilities made possible by VPX, the new military aerospace COTS board standard
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The CHAMP-AV6 features four onboard 8641 single-core PowerPC devices.
The 8641, Freescale's latest Altivec-enabled processor, has dual integrated 64bit memory controllers and offers vastly increased memory performance which translates to reduced execution times for user application software.
The CHAMP-AV6 has four Serial RapidIO ports that provide 10Gbyte/s full-duplex bandwidth which represent a data throughput rate approximately 10x faster than today's best VME/Star Fabric implementation.
The VPX format of the CHAMP-AV6 provide backplane connectors capable of handling signalling speeds up to 6.25Gbit/s.
Streaming data applications will benefit from the board's 8.5Gbyte/s memory bandwidth and up to 2Gbyte of DDR-II SDRAM.
The CHAMP-AV6 represents the industry's first board-level support for two-level in-the-field maintenance requirements that can significantly reduce sparing and logistics requirements, thus reducing the total life-cycle cost of the systems in which the CHAMP-AV6 is deployed.
A high-performance IPC interprocessor communications library enables message passing and bulk data transfers in a multi-processor system.
The CHAMP-AV6 also features an onboard Gigabit Ethernet switch for integration with command and control networks.
Further, it provides Continuum Software Architecture (CSA) firmware providing a comprehensive suite of system debug, exerciser, and update functions, BIT, and nonvolatile memory sanitisation function.
Software for the CHAMP-AV6 includes support for operating systems including VxWorks, Linux and Gedae.
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