As an innovator, VMETRO began product development using (parallel) RapidIO in 2003. After several years of developing products utilizing serial and parallel RapidIO, VMETRO now offers a variety of Xilinx FPGA and Freescale MPC8641D PowerPC based products.
6U VPX and VPX-REDI Products
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HPE720 Hybrid Processing Engine with a MPC8641D and Dual Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs
- Single or Dual-core Freescale MPC8641D processor at 1.0/1.25/1.33 GHz
- Dual Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs (LX110/220/330T, SX240T or FX200T options)
- Dual FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) sites OR 1 FMC and 1 XMC/PMC site
- Serial RapidIO connectivity
- 6U VPX/VPX-REDI form factor
- Supports FusionIPC Software Suite
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MPE730 Quad-Core PowerPC Multi-Processing Engine
- Dual Freescale MPC8641D Processors with support for 1.0, 1.33 and 1.5GHz clock rate
- Dual PMC/XMC Mezzanine sites with support for PCIe x8, PCI/PCI-X & Serial RapidIO x4
- Up to 2GB of DDR2 memory per processor, or 4GB of memory per board
- Full Serial RapidIO fabric connectivity
- Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA System Control Node for chassis management
- Supports FusionIPC Software Suite
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SBC731 Single Board Computer
- Freescale MPC8641D Processor with support for 1.0, 1.33 and 1.5 GHz clock rate
- Dual PMC/XMC Mezzanine sites with support for PCIe x8, PCI/PCI-X & Serial RapidIO x4
- Up to 2GB of DDR2 memory
- Full Serial RapidIO fabric connectivity
- Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA System Control Node for chassis management
- Supports FusionIPC Software Suite
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MM-16x0 Intelligent IO Carrier
- 2x CoSine 2VP100 System-on-Chips
- 2x Xilinx Virtex-4 SX55 or LX160 CoSine Companion Devices
- 2x PMC/XMC sites
- 14 Independent memory arrays with total bandwidth of over 40GBps
- 4x Embedded PowerPC processors
- Complete Serial RapidIO x4 connectivity
- 6U VPX (VITA-46) form factor
- Rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled variants
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MM-1200 Intelligent IO Carrier
- 2x CoSine 2VP100 System-on-Chips
- 2x PMC/XMC sites
- 6 Independent memory arrays with total bandwidth of over 6GBps
- 4x Embedded PowerPC processors
- Complete Serial RapidIO x4 connectivity
- 6U VPX (VITA-46) form factor
- Rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled variants
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Software
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FusionIPC Inter-Processor Communications Software Suite
- Developed for real-time, Distributed Multi-Processing (DMP) Applications
- Designed for low overhead and close control of hardware resources
- Based on scalable fabric endpoints, Shared Memory Buffers (SMBs), POSIX or Linux standards, and open platforms
- Utilizes DMA, Zero Copy implementation – avoids excessive data copying
- Dynamic and Abstract Configuration Management as opposed to Static and Geographical
- Well defined User API provides Distributed DMA and Distributed Name Service
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6U VXS Products
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MM-15x0 Intelligent Carrier for sRIO & Dual Virtex-4 FPGA Processing Engine
- Processors
- Dual CoSine 2VP100 System-on-Chips with Quad Embedded PowerPCs
- Dual Virtex-4 SX55 or LX160 Companion Devices for UPL
- Complete sRIO x4 connectivity
- Dual XMC/PMC sites
- Air & conduction-cooled
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XMC Modules
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MM-6171 2-4GB DDR2 SDRAM Buffer Memory XMC
- 2-4 GB High-speed DDR2 SDRAM
- x4 Serial RapidIO® or x8 PCI Express® interfaces
- Full-featured DMA engine
- Rugged convection and conduction-cooled versions
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