Citing data-driven architectures as the secret sauce behind the “complete” battlefield, GE Intelligent Platforms brings to the party their SBC622 in 6U VPX battle dress. Using a 2.53 GHz Intel Core i7, the board is targeted toward radar, sonar, and video for early warning or command and control systems, and the aggregation, analysis, and dissemination of real-time sensor data. We think maybe that covers it all … maybe even servo control systems, but we digress. With an optional 8 GB of ECC DDR3 SDRAM, the CPU is 30 percent faster than its predecessor. As well, hyperthreading and Intel’s Turbo Boost get more work per clock out of this multicore processor.
There are 2 PCI-X PMC/XMC sites for user-added I/O and 6 USB ports routed as: 2x front panel (on air-cooled versions), 4x to P6, and 2x to P4. (That adds up to 8, so there must be some redundancy.) As for the fabric interface – the heart of VITA 46 (VPX) and VITA 65 (OpenVPX) – there’s dual 10 GbE routed to P1. There’s also 4x GbE to P4 or 3x to P4 plus 1x to the front panel (if equipped). Other I/O includes: display, 3x SATA, 2x COM, and 3x GPIO. Conduction-cooled versions are available.
