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News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: PowerPMC-275
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 February 2004
PowerPC finds slot on Processor PMC
The PowerPMC-275 is billed as the embedded computing industry's first PowerPC 750GX microprocessor-based processor PCI mezzanine card (PrPMC) module
Using a PowerPC 750GX processor from IBM, the module offers one or two high-performance 1.0GHz processors and a robust 1Mbyte of four-way-set associative L2 internal cache. Functioning at the processor's core frequency while providing a very low power envelope, the PowerPMC-275 is suitable for applications that have a footprint optimised for a large L2 cache.
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Also, those applications can now achieve significant performance improvements and more deterministic behaviour with the PowerPMC-275 than is offered on other PrPMCs implementing PowerPC technology.
By upgrading to the PowerPC 750GX processor and doubling the amount of on-chip, integrated L2 cache, the PowerPMC-275 can address a broader range of highly demanding telecommunications, networking, storage and industrial control applications.
With a large L2 cache, it is well suited to semiconductor testing, medical imaging, industrial printing, next-generation wireless base stations, high-end router control-plane processors and network-attached or iSCSI storage controllers.
Capable of operating in either monarch or nonmonarch mode, the PowerPMC-275 implements the PowerPC 750GX processor(s) with the highly-integrated Marvell Discovery II MV64360 system controller onto an open-system PrPMC form-factor.
Multiple PowerPMC-275 configurations can be created, depending on performance, memory, networking, flash and multiprocessing requirements.
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In addition to up to 1GByte DDR-SDRAM and dual/independent GigE interfaces, the PowerPMC-275 includes: 1MByte boot Flash memory; 64Mbyte user Flash memory; 64bit/66MHz PCI control plane; dual serial interfaces; multiple I2C EEPROM for board information and module configuration; integrated 2Mbit SRAM useful in optimising networking performance; MontaVista Linux operating system support; and a single image VxWorks BSP with loosely coupled multiprocessing support.
Also, this compact footprint processor module provides a scalable, cost-effective and low-power control- or data-plane processing solution based on widely-adopted PowerPC and PrPMC technologies for deployment on proprietary CompactPCI, PICMG 2.16 or AdvancedTCA form-factor-based carrier boards.
The module has capacity for a third GigE interface that can be implemented on a customised variant from Force's Tailor Made Solutions programme.
Cost-optimised OEM options are also possible using other members of the Marvell Discovery II family of system controllers.
PowerPMC-275 PrPMCs are currently available through Force's Early Access Unit (EAU) programme, with general availability scheduled for March.
Cost-optimised lower power-dissipation 750FX and symmetric-multiprocessing G4 members of the product family - PowerPMC-270 and PowerPMC-280 - are also available.
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