GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms 2500 Austin Drive Charlottesville, VA 22911 US
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VPX
µTCA
Magic1 3U VPX system with leading edge graphics performance
MP2000 Prevalidated Modular Platform
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms was among the very rst companies to see the potential of the VPX architecture and its ability to leverage the substantial performance benets of serial switched fabrics while maintaining compatibility with the ubiquitous VME standard, providing a cost-effective migration path for customers that maximizes the value of existing investments in hardware and software. Since that time, the company has introduced the industry’s broadest range of VPX products – the family now has ten members – with solutions for both 6U and 3U applications, based on both the PowerPC and Intel Core 2 Duo architecture. The DSP230 Quad 8641D AXIS Multicomputer Blade offers leading edge performance for demanding applications such as radar, sonar and signal processing.
The TCA architecture has captured signicant market interest, given its compelling advantages given how it delivers the performance, exibility, manageability and reliability of AdvancedTCA but in a smaller, more cost-effective form factor. However, until recently, customers have been slow to turn that interest into real programs. Research revealed this to be a function of concern at the probable elapsed tome between evaluation of the new technology and eventual deployment: ‘time to market’ was the barrier to solid acceptance.
The GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms 3U VPX family comprises not only processor boards, but also the infrastructure to support them, including an NVIDIA G73-based graphics card, a PMC/XMC PCIe switch carrier, SATA disk drive module and 16-port Gigabit Ethernet switch. VPX is also at the heart of a growing number of applicationready subsystems such as the MAGIC1 Rugged Display Computer with its Intel Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA graphics and 64 GBytes of solid state disk.
Responding to this requirement, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms recently introduced two new ‘pre-validated’ platforms: simply, these are fully-congured, tested and ready-to-run hardware vehicles that deliver guaranteed reliability and interoperability, thus freeing customers from the need to concern themselves with low level detail. These platforms are the MP-2000, featuring a 2U, 13-slot TCA chassis and the MP-3000 8U, 15-slot TCA chassis. Both platforms come pre-congured with a Power Module, dual Cooling Units, and MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) with PCI Express fabric module, together with GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Telum™ Intel®-based processor, dual SATA storage modules, multi-port Gigabit Ethernet I/O interface and VGA graphics AdvancedMCs. A Linux operating system and Linux Support Package (LSP) with drivers are pre-installed on the platforms.