The MVME6100 combines the NXP MPC7457 PowerPC® processor running with an AltiVec coprocessor and up to 320MB/s practical bandwidth to enable your technology refresh while maintaining backwards compatibility. OEMs in the military and aerospace, industrial automation and medical imaging industries are upgrading to the MVME6100 series to take advantage of its enhanced performance features while protecting their investment in their existing VMEbus infrastructure The MVME6100 series was the first VMEbus board designed with the Tundra Tsi148 VMEbus interface chip offering two edge source synchronous transfer (2eSST) VMEbus performance. The 2eSST protocol enables the VMEbus to run at a practical bandwidth of 320MB/s in most cases. The SMART EC MVME6100 series provides more than just faster VMEbus transfer rates; it provides balanced performance from the processor, memory subsystem, local buses and I/O subsystems. The MVME6100 series supports booting a variety of operating systems including a complete range of real-time operating systems and kernels. A VxWorks board support package and Linux support are available for the MVME6100 series.
VMEBUS 2ESST PERFORMANCE
The 2eSST protocol has existed for some time (the draft standard for trial use was published in 1999 and released as an ANSI standard in 2003), but until now, 2eSST boards would not work in a standard VMEbus backplane because the existing VMEbus transceivers could not support the required VMEbus 2eSST signaling speeds. Texas Instruments developed new VMEbus transceivers that support the VMEbus signal switching speeds required by the 2eSST protocol. The combination of the new Texas Instruments VMEbus transceivers and the Tsi148 VMEbus legacy protocol support allows customers to integrate the MVME6100 series into their existing infrastructure providing backward compatibility and thereby preserving their investment in existing VMEbus boards, backplanes, chassis and software.
Backward Compatibility
The MVME6100 series continues the direction of providing a migration path from SMART EC’s embedded controllers such as the MVME2300/MVME2400 and from SMART EC SBCs such as the MVME2600/2700 to a single platform. The MVME6100 series, like the MVME5100 and MVME5500 series, merged the best features of SMART EC’s embedded controllers and SBCs enabling OEMs to support varying I/O requirements with the same base platform, simplifying part number maintenance, technical expertise requirements and sparing. The MVME6100 series offers customers a migration path from the MVME2300, MVME2400, MVME2600, MVME2700, MVME5100 and MVME5500 boards to allow them to take advantage of features such as the MPC7457 processor, DDR memory, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X and 2eSST.
