Briec-de-l´Odet, France, May 2006 — Interface Concept unveils a new high performance, VME Single board computer, based around the Freescale® 1.7 GHz MPC7448 PowerPC®. This low power PowerPC design provides 1 GB of SDRAM-DDR with ECC. Both fast Nor and large Nand Flash memories are implemented on-board. This processor board is ideal for use in Defense, industrial automation and medical imaging applications, requiring high-performance processing.
The IC-e6-VMEa runs as a system controller or a standard single slot board. An automatic detection can be used with the VME64x backplane. The VMEbus interface is based on a combination of the Tundra Tsi148 VME bridge and the latest generation of Texas Instrument transceivers. The 2eSST (Two-edge Source Synchronous Transfer) bus protocol capabilities provides up to 300MB/s transfer rate across the VMEbus..
The board implements a Marvell DiscoveryTMIII chipset (MV64460) to fill out the processor. This solution includes major enhancements such as : data streaming on MPX bus, read memory latency and cache coherency improvements. The MV64460, adds, on-chip, 2 Mbits of high speed burst SRAM, two XOR DMA (useful for RAID, iSCSI) and four IDMA engines.
The IC-e6-VMEa supports three Giga Ethernet channels, one console port, one USB2 controller (once combined with a hub function, it can provide three high/full speed ports). A quad UART provides four additional asynchronous channels available on P2 connector. The 64-bit PCI/PCI-X bridge allows the VME SBC to control two PMC mezzanine boards with the PnIO routed according to the VITA35. Thanks to its SATA controller, the IC-e6-VMEa can manage directly four storage devices.
A 6U rear transition module (as an option), adds the connectors for 2 Giga RJ45, USB2, four RS232/422 ports, two SATA connectors and an HD68 connector for the PMC IO to complete the IC-e6-VMEa features. An engineering kit (as an option) for debug is available.
From industrial to the most severe applications, the IC-e6-VMEa board can operates up to -40 to 75°C. The conduction-cooled version runs at 1.4 GHz.
Operating systems supported are VxWorks® and Linux®. On-board comprehensive firmware includes UBOOT and provides a comprehensive Power-on Built In Test booting and remote software downloading over Ethernet.
Prices start at $ 4.800,00.
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About Interface Concept:
Interface Concept is a leading European manufacturer of processors (SBC), Ethernet switches and communications boards offering an expanded range of COTS products to defense, medical, transport and telecommunication industries.
This comprehensive range of COTS networking products includes :
· PowerPC®- and PowerQUICC™ processor-based SBC boards (3U and 6U)
· Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet switches (up to 30 ports),
· PowerPC® processor- and PowerQUICC™ processor-based Ethernet interface controllers
· Synchronous/asynchronous serial communication platforms.
The product range is available on PrPMC / PMC, VME, CompactPCI, and PCI platforms and supports several operating systems including VxWorks® and Linux®.
For over 15 years, Interface Concept has been supplying innovative, high performance real-time solutions based on the latest market industrial standards and technologies.