VITA 46 (VPX) SBC

Features: Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd, provider of complete technology

solutions and professional services in the embedded space, has announced the

availability of the industry's first VITA 46 (VPX)-based single board computer

(SBC) from Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing.






The VPX6-185 combines the performance and the advanced I/O capabilities of the
Freescale 8641 processor with an extensive I/O complement to provide a highly

capable processing platform for a wide range of embedded military/aerospace

applications. The VPX standard, collaboratively developed by COTS industry

leaders and prime military integrators, delivers a high-speed serial

interconnect with a form-factor and feature set specifically designed to meet

demanding military/aerospace applications, a Mistral statement said.

The VPX6-185's processing engine is the Freescale 8641 single/dual-core

PowerPC device. With its dual integrated 64-bit memory controllers, it offers

vastly increased memory performance compared to prior generations of PowerPC

processors.






The core-processing feature of the VPX6-185 includes 2Gbytes DDR II-266 SDRAM
with ECC and 512 Mbytes Flash with write protection. Its I/O features includes a

full master/slave VME64 interface, an on-board serial rapidIO interconnect, 3

gigabit Ethernet ports, 6 serial I/O channels, 2 full MIL-STD-1553 channels, 2

serial ATA 1.0 ports and 16 discrete LVTTL I/O signals. For core backplane

connectivity, the VPX6-185 incorporates 4 Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI)

switch ports. For integration with high-density computing products such as

Curtiss-Wright's CHAMP-AV6 VPX-based DSP engine, the VPX6-185 also provides

Serial RapidIO connectivity.