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Concurrent Technologies and Hybricon have enabled VME system
designers to reap the benefits of a packet-based switching
architecture with products supporting VITA 31.1 (Gigabit
Ethernet on VME64x Backplanes). VITA 31.1 provides a viable
serial interconnect method by leveraging the mature PICMG®
2.16 standard into VME64x based systems. This enables a tried
and tested method to implement multiprocessor architectures by
leveraging available Ethernet hardware, IP software, and
clustering software while simultaneously providing scalable
VME system performance and redundancy/reliability. Concurrent
Technologies’ VP 305/01x, a VME SBC utilizing the Intel®
Pentium® M processor, supports VITA 31.1 (via the
standard VME64x P0 connector). Hybricon’s Gigabit Ethernet
VME64x backplane supports two VITA 31.1 switch fabric slots
and nineteen VITA 31.1 node slots. The standard enables
off-the-shelf PICMG 2.16 Ethernet switch fabric boards, as
well as legacy VME boards, to be used within a VITA 31.1
enclosure.
Concurrent
Technologies’ VP 305/01x, a single slot VME/VME64x board,
supports either the 1.6 GHz or 1.1 GHz Intel Pentium M
processor and up to 1.5 Gbytes DDR ECC SDRAM. It has been
designed to provide the next stage in higher performance
processing with a host of front and rear I/O features
including VITA 31.1 support. Board performance is scalable, as
the VP 305/01x will support faster versions of the processors
as they become available. For ease of integration, the board
supports many of today’s leading operating systems. LAN boot
firmware is included as well. For harsher environments an
extended, -25°C to +70°C, operating temperature version is
also available.
Hybricon’s
VITA 31.1 6U backplane is available as standard with 21-slots,
supporting two fabric slots and nineteen node slots. Custom
configurations are available for 2 to 21-slots variants. The
design of this backplane leverages Hybricon's PICMG 2.16
signal integrity analysis and implementation experience to
achieve the highest performance. For flexible system
configuration Hybricon’s VITA 31.1 backplanes are available
fitted into various types of Hybricon enclosures. The
enclosures, for example the RME21, supports sufficient cooling
for greater than 85 Watts/slot using their patented air
deflecting CoolSlot™ card guides. The RME21 enclosure can be
supplied with up to 1800W power supplies. For harsher
environments Hybricon’s VITA 31.1 backplane will operate over
-40°C to +85°C; consult Hybricon for a suitable enclosure.
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