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News Release from: Thales Computers | Subject: PowerEngineC7
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2005
PowerPC board leads conduction-cooled
cPCI line
The PowerEngineC7 is the first member of a new family of rugged 3U CompactPCI embedded computers.
Continuing its commitment to provide its customers with leading edge products, Thales Computers is releasing a line of 3U CompactPCI embedded computers, starting with the rugged conduction-cooled PowerEngineC7 The PowerEngineC7 is the first member of Thales' new family of rugged 3U CompactPCI embedded computers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Thales is committed to providing the latest technology and high-performance products to the industrial and mil/aero markets", said Alain Albarello, General Manager of Thales'Computers.
He added: "The PowerEngineC7 is a result of combined efforts with several Thales engineering teams with airborne expertise".
The PowerEngineC7 is designed around the PowerPC 750FX, a dual issue superscalar control processor, operating at 700MHz.
Included is a PMC expansion slot and a dual Ethernet 10/100 port.
Flash memory is apportioned as 64Mbyte for the system and 128Mbyte for the user.
The 32Kbyte L1 cache has a 32byte line, eight-way set associative instruction cache and a 32Kbyte 32byte line, eight-way associative data cache.
The 1Mbyte internal L2 cache has ECC clocked at processor frequency.
The board's high-speed 256Mbyte DDR SDRAM with ECC supports code execution copied from Flash memory.
A predefined area of the memory is protected from the PCI and Ethernet accesses and allows the definition of a dedicated PPC communications area.
"The PowerEngineC7 is a 3U CompactPCI board that perfectly meets the harshest environmental requirements of our embedded applications", said Marc Gatti, Manager of Computers and Digital Processing within Thales' airborne systems activities.
"This signals the introduction of a new product family for Thales, one that is both small format and flexible", commented Gatti.
Pricing for the conduction-cooled PowerEngineC7 starts at $4450 for a single quantity.
The PowerEngineC7 will be available early in October 2005.
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