SBC731

VMETRO

Contact:

Nicole Renfro
Marketing Manager

Description:

The SBC731 is a VPX-REDI PowerPC single board computer with dual mezzanine sites and on-board Serial RapidIO and PCI Express fabric connectivity. Utilizing a Freescale MPC8641D processor, the dual-core design provides significant processing power while still meeting rugged, extended temperature convection and conduction-cooled requirements. Combining this processing power with the flexibility of dual PMC/XMC sites and sRapidIO and PCIe fabrics satisfies a variety of embedded applications.

Processing
At the heart of the SBC731 is a dual-core MPC8641D processor. Using the e600 core and the AltiVec vector engine, each core is capable of running at speeds of 1.0, 1.33 or 1.5 GHz. Customers can balance processing power with heat dissipation to best meet their requirements, choosing not only the frequency, but also a single or dual-core processor.

The MPC8641Ds memory controllers are 72-bits wide and run up to 600MHz, 64-bits for data and 8-bits for ECC. Each memory controller supports up to 1GB of DDR2 memory.

Connectivity
The MPC8641D on the SBC731 supports PCIe x8 through one fabric port. The crossbar switch connects both XMC mezzanine sites, both PCIe-to-PCI-X bridges, and to a x8 or dual x4 connections to the backplane.

The second fabric port supported by the MPC8641D is a Serial RapidIO x4 connection. Serial RapidIO provides the primary backplane connectivity for systems based on the SBC731, and connects to the P1 fabric connector per VITA 46.3 standards. Incorporating a Serial RapidIO crossbar on every VPX board provides for a distributed switching architecture that allows for a passive backplane. With four x4 connections to the backplane, architectures range from a 5-slot full-mesh topology to a 16-slot VPX system in a standard chassis. There is also a build option that supports Serial RapidIO to the XMC mezzanine sites instead of PCIe. Finally, these additional Serial RapidIO connections can alternatively be routed to the backplane P6 connector, providing up to 6 Serial RapidIO ports when used in conjunction with the P1 fabric connector.

Running the 2eSST protocol, the VME interface provides backwards compatibility with VME64/32 systems, but with up to four times the bandwidth.
The processor supports two Gigabit Ethernet connections, with one running to the front panel and the other to the backplane on the P4 connector.

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