Quad multicomputer

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the DSP220 6U VXS (VITA 41.2) quad 8641/8641D multicomputer.

Featuring four single- or dual-core Freescale PowerPC 8641 system-on-chip nodes and a VITA 42.2-compliant XMC slot, the DSP220 is available in six ruggedisation levels, including air-, spray- and conduction-cooled for extended temperature operation as well as resistance to shock and vibration.

It is designed for a broad range of applications, such as land-mobile, airborne fixed and rotary wing, and naval surface and underwater platforms that require high-performance COTS multiprocessors.

The device derives it performance from a number of key features. Each PowerPC e600 core is clocked at 1 GHz, and each 8641 node supports two banks of DDR2 SDRAM with 256 MB per bank, 2 GB total per card, as standard.

Up to 8 GB SDRAM per board is optionally available. PowerPC AltiVec support for vector and floating point operations is provided by each processor core.