CM6 3U CompactPCI single-board computer

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the rugged CM6 3U CompactPCI single-board computer. Featuring a Freescale PowerPC MPC8641 operating at up to 1.33 GHz with either a single- or dual-core processor, the board supports up to 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM ECC memory.

Designed for applications including military/aerospace, telecommunications, simulation/training and test and measurement, both system mode and non-system mode are supported.

The device derives its functionality from a high degree of integration which sees the provision of two gigabit ethernet ports and two serial ports (RS232 and RS422/RS485) together with eight general-purpose I/Os and flash memory, freeing the user to use the capabilities of the 64-bit/100 MHz PMC interface for application-specific purposes.

In either the single core or dual core version, AltiVec support is provided for advanced floating point applications. Each core is provided with its own level 1 and 2 caches, allowing for more parallelism.

It is available in three ruggedisation levels with an extended temperature range of –40 to +85ºC and optional conformal coating.

Support for Linux is available as standard; support for Integrity, LynxOS and VxWorks is also available.