Aitech
Defense Systems Inc.'s rugged 6U VPX SBC (single board computer) offers the
selection between PCI Express or Serial Rapid IO (SRIO) and a host of on-board
I/O ports. Using an integrated dual core PowerPC processor, the new
single-slot C110 combines low power performance with increased memory capabilities,
making the board useful for Radar system boot computers, Sonar processors,
Video and Graphics engines and single board process and machine control
applications.
Because
it is built to OpenVPX (VITA 65) and VPX (VITA 46.0) specifications, the C110
is fully compliant with legacy VME operations, such as VME64 per VITA 46.1,
while supporting advanced VME protocols including 2eSST and 2eVME. Four
x4 ports, are configurable to either Serial RapidIO (SRIO) or PCI Express
(PCIe), make up the VPX core backplane fabric. Via the I2C bus, the
VPX connectors also provide system level management monitoring of the board's
status, including monitoring key, rail voltages and temperatures.
The
C110's
on-board I/O resources include four Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, two
SATA 2.0 ports, six asynchronous serial ports and eight GPIO (general purpose
discrete I/O) channels. Additionally, the board comes with two PMC/XMC
slots and an optional Aitech I/O module (AIOM) slot for the installation of
user-customized I/O interfaces.
The
MPC 8640D processor features dual e600 cores operating at 1.25 GHz, each with
64 kB of L1 and 1 MB of L2 on-chip, high speed cache. Additional memory
includes a 2 GB bank of dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM with ECC, 128 MB of user Flash
for firmware, user application and data storage functions as well as 8 GB of
high density NAND Flash memory for mass storage.
The
C110 remains reliable in extreme environmental conditions with an extended
temperature range of -55C to +85C (Mil-Spec). A sophisticated thermal
management design enables optimal heat dissipation across the board and heat
rejection from the card edges, regardless of whether the board is conduction-
or convection-cooled.
Real
time operating systems (RTOS) available for the C110 include Wind River
VxWorks, Green Hills INTEGRITY and Linux.
