Extreme Engineering Solutions Introduces New OpenVPX Module

These days' computers are becoming very popular for military tactical networks. It has provided the modern military a degree of efficiency and effectiveness that has completely changed the way the military operates at sea, in the air, and on the ground.  The fast computational abilities and the accuracy of digital computing enable the military to perform more quickly with less risk to themselves and with less cost to their government.

Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES (News - Alert)) has introduced XPedite5470, a high-performance 3U OpenVPX single-board computer with Freescale QorIQ P4080 processor. XPedite5470 delivers enhanced Power Architecture performance and power efficiency for today's military customers requiring high performance in small form factors. XPedite5470 provides a new level of Power Architecture computing power with features including:

--Freescale P4080 processor with eight Power Architecture e500 cores at up to 1.5 GHz
--8 GB DDR3-1333 ECC SDRAM in two channels
--256 MB NOR and 16 GB NAND flash
--Hardware write-protection for NVRAM
--Serial RapidIO, x4 PCI (News - Alert) Express, and SerDes Gigabit Ethernet interconnects
--Ethernet and serial ports

X-ES delivers Freescale Semiconductor's QorIQ P4080 in five additional unique form factors: 3U CompactPCI (News - Alert), PMC/XMC, VME, 6U VPX, and 6U CompactPCI, covering the entire embedded product market. To satisfy the widest range of customer applications, from telecommunications to MIL-STD 810F military requirements, all of X-ES's P4080 products are engineered to scale from air-cooled commercial (0 to 55ºC) to full conduction-cooled (-40 to +85ºC) with appropriate shock and vibration testing. Linux, Wind River (News - Alert) VxWorks, QNX Neutrino, and Green Hills INTEGRITY Board Support Packages (BSPs) are available.

Aaron Lindner, X-ES engineering manager stated that for high-end military compute applications, the P4080 provides PowerPC customers an easy and natural code migration for man-years of big-endian based applications and XPedite5470 is the latest in our VPX product line providing customers the ability to maximize system performance in a minimum number of compute slots.

XPedite5470 is available now in limited quantities for development; production hardware is expected to be available in 4Q10.