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Product category: VMEbus Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: GE Fanuc Embedded Systems | Subject: CRX8
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 November 2007

Switch card supports multiple VXS boards

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The VXS-based CRX800 managed Serial RapidIO switch offers very attractive price/performance, especially in combination with the DSP220.

In line with the company's strategy of developing the broadest range of high performance multiprocessing solutions for the 6U VME architecture, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released the CRX800, billed as the world's first VXS (VITA41.2) compliant Serial RapidIO managed switch card Designed to provide optimal support for VXS multiple board applications - using the GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms DSP220 VXS quad 8641 processor (announced concurrently) or alternative multiprocessor systems - the CRX800 offers 18 x4 Serial RapidIO (sRIO) payload ports, four x4 sRIO inter-switch ports and a PowerPC MPC8548 management processor which supports 128Mbyte of Flash memory and 256Mbyte of SDRAM for unsurpassed data throughput at up to 3.125GHz per lane