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MPC8641D Based Advanced Mezzanine Card

Based on the Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core PowerPC processor, the AMC board runs at 1.5 GHz with 1 GB of on-board DDR2 memory, while addressing power and heat constraints for an AMC form-factor. The highly integrated MPC8641D processor architecture improves system performance, simplifies board design, reduces bridging/control devices, and reduces system implementation cost. Delivering performance at 1.5 GHz each core (2.3MIPS/MHz), the reference board facilitates Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEM) to add processing power to AdvancedTCA (ATCA), MicroTCA or proprietary systems equipped with AMC expansion bays.

With two Gigabit Ethernet ports in the front panel and two Gigabit Ethernet ports with x8 PCI Express on the AMC edge connector, the card provides a modular development environment for embedded applications using PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet and Serial RapidIO.Additionally connectivity options are available on separate versions of the board providing either  x8 PCIe or x4 sRIO.

The board's Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), which is routed to the AMC connector, enables it to be monitored and controlled through the ATCA carrier card by remote shelf management controllers. Also, the XOR acceleration in hardware supports software based RAID systems allowing for integration of networks to storage systems.

The two PowerPC cores of this design can operate in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) mode for maximum performance, or two separate operating systems can be used for separate control plane tasks, such as off-loading security, classification and quality-of-service (QoS) tasks from the data plane. In addition, MPC8641D can be used to implement both the control and data plane and can be organized in a variety of ways, including splitting functionality directionally (one core per direction) or splitting functionality vertically (one core for handling data plane, one for control plane).

SPECIFICATIONS

Processor

  • Freescale MPC8641D Dual core PowerPC Processor at 1.5 GHZ
  • e600 PowerPC core, 1 MB L2 cache, Dual AltiVec™ vector processing engines providing additional performance acceleration

Board Resources

  • 16MB Boot Flash
  • 1GB DDR2 SDRAM with ECC
  • 64Kbit EEPROM
  • JTAG test access Port
  • Two BCM5482 Dual Port PHY

Bus Connect:
AMC Connector:

  • Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces – 2 Ports
  • x8 PCI-Express

Front Panel:

  • 2x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces
  • RJ11Serial UART – 1Port

LEDs

  • IPMI/ Card Status (3 LEDs)

Other

  • IPMI v1.5 (Intelligent Power Management Interface)
  • Temperature Monitor

Software

  • GNU Compiler tools
  • U-Boot
  • Linux Kernel
  • Optional support for VxWorks, QNX and Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS
  • Network File System & Ramdisk File System

Power Requirements

  • 75 to 77W (Typical consumption)

Electrical

  • 12V and 3.3V DC (through AMC Edgeconnector)

Mechanical

  • 181.5mm x 73.5 mm x 13.71mm (w/o front bezel)

Environmental

  • Humidity: 10% to 90% noncondensing
  • Storage Temperature: -40C to 85C
  • Operating Temperature: 0C to 40C

   
 
    HIGHLIGHTS
  • PowerPC™ Dual Core e600 processor, with each core operating up to 1.5GHz.
  • Four Gigabit Ethernet ports, of which two are in Front Panel
  • Eight lane PCI Express or 4 lane sRIO
  • Standard AMC connector interface
  • Intelligent power management v1.5
  • Temperature monitoring
  • Hot-swap support
  • AMC.0 Rev.2 Compliant, single width, full height form factor

  • Embedded Linux

   APPLICATIONS:

   Telecom/Wireless      Infrastructure

  • ATCA &MicroTCA architectures
  • Ideal compute platform for wireless base stations (BSC)
  • WiMax Base transceiver stations (BTS)

   Enterprise Networking

  • High-end switches, routers & router control plane cards
  • IP-PBX
  • Network processor controllers

   Storage subsystems

  • Software based RAID systems, allowing integration of networks to storage systems
  • Network attached storage (NAS)/ network file system (NFS) storage
    controllers

   Pervasive Computing

  • Web Servers, Search Engines
  • Aerospace &Aeronautics

  • High-end Multifunction printers
 


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