Product category: CompactPCI Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Extreme Engineering Solutions | Subject: Xpedite1000 and XChange1100
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 April 2003
PowerPC boards combine
big memory with networking
The Xpedite1000 (PrPMC) and XChange1100 (6U, cPCI) both offer a unique combination of high speed 333MHz DDR SDRAM coupled with dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
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The Xpedite1000 (PrPMC) and XChange1100 (6U, cPCI) both offer a unique combination of high speed 333MHz DDR SDRAM coupled with dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for high performance military, industrial, storage and telecommunications based applications. XPedite1000 is the first PrPMC module to meet high performance communications needs with IBM's feature-rich PowerPC 440GX.
XPedite's 440GX processor delivers 1334 DMIPS of processing power at 667MHz, while drawing only 4.5W of power.
Supporting an on-chip 133MHz PCI-X interface, XPedite at least doubles PCI bandwidth over competing products.
In recognition of the hard real-time requirements for varied customer applications, Extreme Engineering has completed board support packages for WindRiver's VxWorks and MontaVista Linux.
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Each BSP/LSP has been exhaustively tested to ensure easy system integration and is directly supported by Extreme to relieve customers from finger-pointing support (and sometimes it's not a polite finger).
Other RTOSs will be supported on a per project basis.
Lastly, by designing with cost effective and field upgradeable SO-DIMMs for memory configurations of 128Mbyte to 1Gbyte, Extreme is able to offer lower priced solutions than competing products.
Xpedite1000 with 256Mbyte DDR SDRAM and dual gigabit Ethernet interfaces is offered at a price point under $1000 in volume.
XChange1100 expands our 440GX design expertise on a 6U cPCI form factor, adding PICMG 2.16 or compact packet switch backplane support, an autosensing system/nonsystem slot design that reduces end-customer sparing requirements, dual PCI-X PMC sites for optimal I/O performance, and CompactFlash memory for application storage.
"Several storage and military customers are targeting XChange1100 because it incorporates PCI-X PMC module support.
As SCSI, FibreChannel and 64bit graphics increase I/O bandwidth requirements, PCI-X is necessary to support high performance systems", states Rob Scidmore, President and CEO of Extreme Engineering.
Using the same SO-DIMM strategy, volume pricing for XChange1100 is under $1500.
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