6U VMEbus SBCs

GE Fanuc has announced the V7768 and V7769 6U VMEbus single board computers.

Both have the Intel Core 2 Duo processor operating at 2.16 GHz and the Mobile Intel 945GME Express Chipset. The dual slot V7769, which provides dual serial-attached SCSI connectors on the front panel, can optionally be configured with an onboard 2.5" SATA hard drive.

Three PCI-X PMC slots allow maximum user-defined connectivity. The single slot V7768 can also be expanded via the PMC237 mezzanine board to provide legacy PMC functionality.

The V7768 and V7769 are the first products from the company to use dual core processors in conjunction with the Universe II PCI-to-VME bridge from Tundra Semiconductor.

This provides not only an easy, software-compatible upgrade path for existing users of the VME64-based V7750, V7751, V7805 and V7851, but also a range of solutions that offers a choice in terms of price/performance.

Up to 4 MB of level 2 cache and up to 2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM are provided by each board as are two gigabit ethernet ports via the front panel.

Two SATA ports, two serial ports, four USB 2.0 ports and PS/2 mouse/keyboard ports are alarms standard. Operating system support is provided for Windows XP, Vista, VxWorks and Linux.