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CHELMSFORD, Mass. – June 10, 2010 – Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), a trusted ISR subsystems provider, announced it will deliver 6U OpenVPX™ computing modules and serial RapidIO IP (intellectual property) for a radar system upgrade on a leading tactical aircraft platform.
Air forces around the world are demanding open-architecture solutions and COTS features such as easy upgradability, flexibility, and low cost. As the founder of the OpenVPX Industry Working Group, Mercury initiated the VPX system-level standards movement and is leading the embedded computing industry with open, scalable computing solutions that leverage the best available technologies to provide customers with a superior performance advantage for the life cycle of their programs.
The Ensemble™ 6000 Series OpenVPX HCD6410 High Compute Density Module addresses the customer’s application size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements while providing scalability and extremely low-latency operation with Mercury’s groundbreaking multi-plane architecture. Available in both air- and conduction-cooled configurations, the HCD6410 combines eight high-performance Power Architecture processor cores with various I/O capabilities and the scalable serial RapidIO interconnect. The HCD6410 also features the MultiCore Plus® software infrastructure, which allows ease of portability in an open software development environment.
Mercury’s serial RapidIO® IP core provides customers with proven, deployed interconnect technology that enables high performance and flexibility for a variety of communication applications. As the pioneer of heterogeneous switch fabric-based computing and co-developer of the RapidIO technology, Mercury is uniquely qualified to deliver a complete, high-function core that is independent of physical layer designs, implementation tools, and target technology, thus allowing customers and integrators to use their preferred development environment and FPGA/ASIC vendors to create custom OpenVPX boards with serial RapidIO.
“More than ever, Mercury plays a vital role not only in shaping fundamental industry standards, but also in delivering open-architecture product and service offerings that support these standards and our customers’ requirements for performance migration and life-cycle management,” said Brian Hoerl, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Advanced Computing Solutions at Mercury. “For this key airborne radar customer, Mercury’s OpenVPX HCD6410 modules and serial RapidIO IP cores will provide the highest density signal processing while simultaneously simplifying interoperability with custom function RapidIO-based OpenVPX boards.”
For more information on Mercury’s OpenVPX performance advantage, visit www.mc.com/openvpx, or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or [email protected].