SBC with lots o’ I/O
Paper or plastic? Fries or chips? The options are sometimes overwhelming, as they might also seem to be with this single-slot 64EP3 SBC from North Atlantic Industries that offers plug-in modules for the processor subsystem as well as various I/O options. But when all stacked up with four modules, this PowerPC or Blackfin SBC replaces multiple boards with just one. I/O options include typical defense and automotive analog and
digital sensor types, as well as communications schemes like MIL-STD-1553 and GbE. Interestingly, the board comes with a dedicated FPGA and function libraries designed to do pre- and post-data processing, depending upon the I/O subsystem.
The CPU can be either an ADI Blackfin 500 MHz BF-533 DSP processor with Visual DSP++ 4.5 libraries and emulator, or a Freescale MPC8536 PowerQUICC III running at 1.25 GHz. Each CPU subsystem is equipped with flash, an FPGA, and direct I/O to front panel or rear panel I/O when ordered as a conduction-cooled LRU. The PowerPC has DDR2, while the DSP has SRAM. These CPU modules then order around the many I/O choices, which include ARINC 429/575, RS-232/422/485, or CANbus. There’s also myriad other less sexy, though no less important, I/O: A/D, D/A, discrete/TTL/CMOS/differential; RTD, synchro/resolver, LVDT/RVDT, or an encoder. With four mix-and-match slots, the 64EP3 offers lots o’ I/O in not a lot of space.
North Atlantic Industries •
www.naii.com www.vmecritical.com/p47552
Two cores ... with more As Intel’s Core family of CPUs takes the civilian world
by storm, the military is closer behind than ever before. Gone are the days of waiting two or more years for the rugged, embedded version.
Take Aitech’s C870 (SBC) and CM870 (PMC/XMC carrier)
boards, for instance. These single-slot, 3U VPX boards pack more into two 3U boards than was previously available from two 6U boards. The SBC is equipped with Intel’s Nehalem-based Core i7 dual-core CPU running at 2.53 GHz for performance, all the way down to 1.33 GHz for “ultra-low power.” Since Aitech knows rugged (sounds like a slogan, doesn’t it?), the 4 GB of DDR3 SDRAM with ECC is soldered to the board. There’s also 4 MB of flash BIOS and 8 GB of SSD storage.
I/O on the C870 CPU includes 2 1000BASE-T Ethernet and 2 1000-BASE-BX/KX (backplane Ethernet), 2 SATA II ports, 4 USB 2.0, and 8 discrete I/O. There’s also an Intel graphics controller onboard, so HDMI/DVI and CRI outputs are also present. Operating systems include Windows XP and Embedded, plus Linux and VxWorks. The CM870 carrier card is designed for PMC and XMC boards and supports PCIe x4, 64-bit 66/133 PCI-X, and plain old PCI. For XMC boards, there’s PCIe x8. All of this routing is compliant with VITA 46.3, 46.4, and 46.9 for various VPX configurations. And as we said earlier, since Aitech knows rugged, both boards are available in air- and conduction-cooled flavors. Amazingly, both cards weigh less than 0.7 pounds each in conduction-cooled armor.
Aitech Defense Systems •
www.rugged.com (Say, maybe this really is their slogan!)
www.vmecritical.com/p47553
VC1-250-SSD
Conduction Cooled SATA Solid State Disk
Phoenix International’s VC1-250-SSD Conduction Cooled Serial ATA (SATA) based Solid State Disk VME blade delivers high capac- ity, high performance data storage for military, aerospace and industrial applications requiring rugged, extreme environmental and secure mass data storage.
Low Operational Temperature -40° C
• 50g, 11 ms operational shock
• 16g rms, 10-2000Hz random vibration • Low power consumption
• Operational Temperature -40° to +85°C • Sustained data transfer to 250MB/sec
• Individual point to point device connectivity • Integrated SLC NAND Flash
• Meets military and IRIG 106-07 declassification standards
Operational Altitude to 80,000 feet
High Operational Temperature
+85° C
For our entire line of storage products:
www.phenxint.com • 714-283-4800 Phoenix International is AS 9100/ISO 9001: 2008 Certified.
30 VME and Critical Systems / Spring 2011
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