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News Release from: Thales Computers | Subject: PMC-RIO
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 December 2005
Mezzanine card brings serial RapidIO
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Thales has bundled its PowerNode 3 with a powerful and reliable switch fabric solution to allow the end user to interconnect computing nodes all together inside a signal processing calculator.
The PowerNode 3 dual 1GHz 74587 SBC can now be connected through the PMC-RIO serial RapidIO switch fabric PCI mezzanine card Thales has bundled the outstanding performance of PowerNode3 with a powerful and reliable switch fabric solution to allow the end user the ability to interconnect computing nodes all together inside a signal processing calculator
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jun 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Serial RapidIO technology reduces pin counts while staying full duplex and provides a low latency packet-based interconnect data push.
Additionally, the technology offers a very high degree of error management and provides a state-of-the-art architecture for reporting, and recovering from, transmission errors.
The PMC-RIO mezzanine boasts its own distributed switch that prevents any system single point of failures.
Thales Computers Serial RapidIO switch fabric allows an aggregate throughput of up to 1.6Gbyte/s, thanks to the 400Mbyte/s sustained link bandwidth (peer to peer) making the bundled card ideal for demanding signal processing applications such as found in radar, sonar and medical imaging applications.
"At Thales we've listened to our customers and this is why this solution is uniquely suited to the rigours and demands of real-time embedded applications", said Alain Albarello, General Manager of Thales Computers.
"Bundling our award winning dual 1GHz PPC74587 PowerNode 3 with key features of the RapidIO technology, such as both front and back connections, will make this product very attractive to ruggedised military and aerospace marketplace".
"What makes this solution really unique is to provide a full mesh fabric, implemented with a distributed switch solution, where the switch naturally grows with the number of nodes in the system".
"This has no equivalent in this market".
Thales expects to ship the card - one PowerNode 3 featuring dual 1GHz processors, 512Mbyte memory, 32Mbyte Flash along with RapidIO PCI mezzanine card mounted and tested, via LRU integration tests as a whole unit together with a complete Lynx 4.0 (and VxWorks 6.2 in further versions) software suite to allow smooth and efficient installation - in December 2005.
Pricing for the bundled PowerNode 3 and PMC-RIO card starts at $10,200 subject to specifications.
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