Kontron AG - Kontron VM6250 doubles achievement and adds 10 added years to PowerPC Altivec applications with MPC8641D

Highly adjustable multi-processor achievement for air cooled and asperous advice cooled environmentsStore this angel in big sizeEching, Germany, June 15, 2009 – Kontron introduces the new abiding accessible Kontron VM6250 6U VME multi-processor axle with Freescale MPC8640/8641 individual or dualcore processors and Altivec engine. With its scalable processor performance, high-data throughput, low-power amusement and simple adaptability via XMCs, PMCs and FMCs (FPGA balustrade cards) according to the VITA 57 blueprint the Kontron VM6250 offers acute flexibility. With these appearance it upgrades VME based air or advice cooled applications with amazing processing achievement and avant-garde features.

With a ability burning down to alone 27 W (typical with Freescale MPC8640 1.00 GHz) the Kontron VM6250 6U VME CPU axle attains a new achievement akin while blockage aural a bound ability envelope. With a best of Freescale MPC8640 single- or dualcore processors with 1.00 or 1.25 GHz and Freescale MPC8641 single- or dualcore processors with 1.33 GHz it combines top processing ability and aberrant anamnesis bandwidth. With a 64 bit MPX bus active up to 667 MHz, the Kontron VM6250 boosts anamnesis bandwidth up to 4.3 Gbit/s, which makes it 3 times faster than boards based on bequest G4 PowerPC processors. The 4 approach DMA ambassador and the chip 128-Bit AltiVec agent assemblage (which processes ample abstracts quantities while ensuring basal accumulation pollution) accommodate the turbo in the Kontron VM6250 to acceleration up abstracts processing. High abstracts throughput is affirmed by the top acceleration backplane about-face for PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet and the acrid antecedent ancillary alteration VME 2eSST according to ANSI/VITA 1.5.

Kontron's new 6U VME board, in the asperous advice cooled adaptation (- 45 °C to + 85 °C), is destined for applications in acrid environments area acutely defended and reliable achievement is a must. The Kontron VM6250 appearance anchored DDR2 SDRAM with Error Correcting Code (ECC) and on axle USB Flash abutment for software accumulator after alternating non-volatile memory. Data aegis of the accomplished akin is additionally ensured by 128 KB NOVRAM for aback up of analytical abstracts in case of ability failure. The Kontron VM6250 RC with asperous calefaction bore and advice cooling offers all appearance to bear even the harshest environments in mission analytical applications with abstracts accelerated I/O and network-centric absolute time requirements such as aegis and aerospace, cartage and assurance engineering and video and angel processing in medical technology.

Furthermore, the new Kontron VM6250 6U VME axle offers acutely adjustable assembly. One of the two balustrade addendum slots for XMCs and PMCs additionally supports FMCs. An alternative bifold PMC carrier allows up to 4 PMCs. Customers account from the new FMC accepted which allows to calmly change the I/O agreement of a FPGA architecture after accepting to redesign the amount FPGA functionality. Thus a individual FPGA architecture can be activated in assorted applications by artlessly application a altered FMC. Thanks to this modular concept, Kontron's latest 6U VME axle can be bound and flexibly acclimatized to accommodated a ample array of appliance requirements. By application COTS components, the aggregate of accomplishment appropriate for both accomplishing and accouterments upgrades at a after date is bargain to a minimum. Additionally, the Kontron VM6250 is bequest accordant and helps barter to bottle their investments by re-using accustomed VME accessories with adapted processing achievement and avant-garde features.

The Kontron VM6250 provides on the foreground console 2x Gigabit Ethernet, 1x USB 2.0 and 1 x consecutive anchorage (EIA-232). Via the P0 adapter (VITA 31.1) Gigabit Ethernet, SATA II, USB 2.0, PCI Express 1.0, SRIO, GPIO and 32 I/Os for PMC 1 are affiliated to the backplane. Besides the 64-bit VME bus (VME64x), Kontron's VM6250 provides abutment 2eSST, which enables abstracts throughput speeds of up to 320 Mbyte/s on P1. P2 connects 64 I/Os from the FMC and PMC 2 aperture and 32 I/Os from the PMC 1 aperture to the backplane.

Kontron’s new 6U VME CPU axle comes with the Open Source U-Boot firmware and supports VxWorks 6.6 and Fedora 9 Linux. Furthermore, it is covered by Kontron’s continued appellation accumulation program. This guarantees barter a multi-year accumulation of the artefact above its breath life.

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About Kontron
Kontron designs and articles anchored and communications standards-based, asperous COTS and custom solutions for OEMs, systems integrators, and appliance providers in a array of markets. Kontron engineering and accomplishment facilities, amid throughout Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, plan calm with automated all-around sales and abutment casework to advice barter abate their time-to-market and accretion a aggressive advantage. Kontron’s assorted artefact portfolio includes: boards & mezzanines, Computer-on-Modules, HMIs & displays, systems & platforms, and asperous & custom capabilities. Kontron is a Premier affiliate of the Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance and has been a VDC Platinum Vendor for Embedded Computer Boards 5 years running. Kontron is listed on the German TecDAX banal barter beneath the attribute "KBC". For added information, amuse visit: www.kontron.com

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