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May 13, 2009

Curtiss-Wright Announces Plans of Developing New Line of SCBs Based on Freescale's Processor

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a provider of motion control products, subsystems and services for the aerospace and defense markets, has announced that it has plans to develop a family of rugged, single board computers (SBCs) based on Freescale’s QorIQ P4080 eight-core communications processor.
Curtiss-Wright (News - Alert) is aiming to develop high performance and low-power operation devices that can work successfully in space- and weight- constrained environments. Engineered to leverage the flexibility, security enhancements and rich feature set of Freescale’s QorIQ P4080 processor, the new line of SCBs are designed to provide a trusted computing environment even in harsh military and aerospace applications.
Curtiss-Wright also said that it indents to use the advanced device that is based on Power Architecture technology -- for the new line of SBCs, based on open standards.   
“The performance, low-power operation and robust functionality of Freescale’s QorIQ P4080 device takes embedded multi-core processing to entirely new levels,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of modular solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We are excited to extend our unmatched commitment to delivering the industry’s most advanced Power Architecture compute engines by launching our new family of SBCs based on Freescale’s flagship eight-core product. These boards will deliver the next generation in performance per watt computing on Power Architecture technology.”
According to Freescale, its QorIQ communications platforms are built on one or more cores that are based on Freescale's e500 Power Architecture technology. The platform is a coherent multi-core migration solution that offers high performance, power-efficiency and programmability.
Delivered at 45-nanometer geometries, Freescale’s QorIQ communications platforms begin with the P1 and P2 platforms that are designed to ease the transition from single- to dual-core processing. The QorIQ P4 platform can integrate up to eight enhanced Power Architecture cores, a tri-level cache hierarchy, innovative CoreNet on-chip fabric and data path acceleration.
In March, Freescale had announced that it is accelerating delivery of QorIQ products due to growing demand from wireless infrastructure equipment manufacturers. Freescale said that QorIQ products are sampling now to more than a dozen OEM customers and are being used in the development of next-generation networking and communications infrastructure equipment.
Curtiss-Wright said that its adoption of the QorIQ P4080 device emphasizes growing industry acceptance for Freescale’s QorIQ multicore processors within networking, telecommunications, industrial and military/aerospace markets.

Jayashree Adkoli is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jayashree's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray
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