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News Release from: Motorola Embedded Communications Computing Group
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 January 2005

Motorola to marry VME with PCI Express

Motorola has revealed plans to provide customers with a PCI Express-based VMEbus switched serial (VXS) interconnect

Motorola has announced its commitment to providing customers with a PCI Express-based VMEbus switched serial (VXS) interconnect. Equipment manufacturers and system integrators will realise both economic and industry support benefits from the company's use of this industry standard technology.

'Selecting PCI Express as our VXS (VITA 41.4) implementation is an important extension of the application of PCI Express', said Wendy Vittori, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing Group.

'We are bringing the benefits of this standard, broadly available technology to the new embedded communications computing segment, creating more cost-effective, highly integrated platforms on which our customers can quickly build their applications'.

'PCI Express is also an excellent fit for the distributed computing applications that many of our customers are building'.

'Intel is a strong supporter of standard interconnects which take full advantage of the volumes of the PC and server market segments to offer performance, value and reuse', said Anthony Ambrose, General Manager of Platform Programmes, Intel Communications Infrastructure Group.

'Motorola is demonstrating leadership in the embedded communications computing market by initiating the next generation VME backplane architecture, based on PCI Express technology'.

'This is highly aligned with goals of the Intel Communications Alliance, of which Motorola is an active member'.

'VME-based applications will benefit by the significant increase in clustering capabilities made available by open standard technology'.

Motorola is also working with third parties to make available middleware technologies for network-centric applications.

Middleware is important for network-centric applications such as the US Navy Open Architecture initiative, the US Army Future Combat Systems programme, and a variety of industrial applications that require distributed processing.

Motorola is currently working with a leading data networking provider, Real-Time Innovations (RTI), to develop a 2eSST VMEbus backplane transport for NDDS to work in concert with the existing GigE transport.

The company is demonstrating NDDS over 2eSST VMEbus at the Bus and Board Conference this week.

'We see a lot of value in Motorola's approach', commented Brett Murphy, Vice President of Distributed Systems for Real-Time Innovations (RTI)'.

''Having our standards based NDDS software running over 2eSST VMEbus will deliver much higher communication performance between VMEbus boards in a VMEbus chassis'.

'At the same time, gigabit Ethernet connectivity will enable VMEbus systems to seamlessly integrate into customers' network-centric environments'.

The software work now underway to provide middleware, such as NDDS, that communicates over 2eSST VMEbus, will be extended to Motorola's VITA 41.4 environment, simplifying migration to VXS.

Motorola is also researching CORBA and TIPC, two other technologies expected to grow in 2005, as part of its VMEbus platform development programme.

Throughout 2005, Motorola will gather customer input, define and develop the VXS products that it intends to make available in 2006 Motorola is also extending its vision for application-enabling platforms, already implemented using AdvancedTCA and PICMG 2.16 technologies, to include VMEbus.

Application-enabling platforms are highly integrated and validated hardware, operating system and middleware solutions built on industry standards with a supporting industry ecosystem.

'VMEbus is the ideal hardware platform on which to extend our vision for embedded communications computing', Vittori said.

'Moving to our VMEbus-based application-enabling platforms will help manufacturers of aerospace, defense, industrial automation and medical imaging equipment get to market faster and be more cost-efficient, while protecting their existing technology investments'.

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