HOUSTON–Jan. 3, 2006–VMETRO has shipped the first conduction cooled, rugged version of their Phoenix VPF1 dual-FPGA/dual-PowerPC VME/VXS Processing card. Phoenix is a family of innovative products designed to enable system solutions for real-time multi-processors with high-speed serial communications. Air cooled versions of the VPF1 have been shipping since mid 2004.
There has been some confusion in the industry regarding the ability to have conduction cooled VXS boards primarily because of how some in the industry have tried to pit the VITA 46 and VITA 48 standards against VXS (VITA 41). In reality, both VXS and VITA 46 boards can be delivered in conduction cooled versions to meet different application needs. Even without a VITA specification that addresses conduction cooled environments for VME or VXS boards, it is quite possible to design conduction cooled VME and VXS boards; VMETRO designed the conduction cooled VPF1 around industry standard IEEE 1156.1-1993 “IEEE Standard Microcomputer Environmental Specifications for Computer Modules.” VMETRO has shown the world that not only is conduction cooled VXS possible, it is real and available to solve customer’s problems today.
By bringing a rugged VPF1 to market, VMETRO now enables developers to deploy systems with substantially more compute power in autonomous vehicles like UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) than could be done previously.
Features:
Dual AltiVec based PowerPC, Dual Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP70 FPGAs onboard.
Eight 2.0-3.125Gb/s off-board serial communications channels
Onboard Ethernet, RS-232, RS-422
64-bit, 66MHz PMC site for local I/O
Available in both air-cooled and rugged conduction-cooled build variants
VxWorks and Linux support
The conduction cooled VPF1 products are shipping now with standard lead times being 4 to 6 weeks ARO. Pricing starts at USD $37,710 in single unit quantities. Pricing for air cooled versions starts at USD $29,970 in single unit quantities.
About VMETRO
VMETRO provides integrators of high-end embedded computer systems with products and services, from development through deployment, with the highest levels of performance, innovation and reliability. The products are based mostly on open standards like VXS, PCI Express, VME, PCI and CompactPCI. Founded in 1986 in Oslo, Norway, and in the US since 1987, VMETRO is the world’s largest manufacturer of bus analyzers for standard buses such as VME, PCI and PCI Express. VMETRO also offers an extensive line of high-performance signal processing solutions, real-time data recorders, PMC I/O controllers and modules for real-time data processing, acquisition and networking.
VMETRO has been traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE:VME) since 1997. For more information, please visit www.vmetro.com.
