Product Information PPC8A 3rd Generation PowerXpress SBC Latest PowerPC Processors High performance Architecture Wide range of IO features Uniquely designed for Sheltered Defense applications Key Features - PowerPC 7447 to 1.2 GHz - 64 bit 66 MHz PCI to both PMC sites - 6 x Serial Ports - 2 x 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet ports - 1 x 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet ports - SVGA Graphics - 4 x USB Ports PPC8A is the latest technology insert step on the PowerXpress roadmap. Technology Insertion underpins Radstone’s product strategy, allowing enhanced performance and functionality from successive boards in each product family, yet all delivered with the same hardware and software interface definitions. For example, the PPC8A’s pin-out is fully compatible with that of its PowerXpress predecessors (the PPC6 and PPC1A). And the same Board Support Package (BSP) and Deployed Test Software, runs on all 3 boards. This unique commitment to compatibility makes Radstone the supplier of choice to system integrators in defense markets worldwide. Cost-effective PowerXpress boards target ‘sheltered’ applications, where expensive ‘full ruggedization’ is not required (e.g. Naval, Ground Mobile). Mission-critical services deliver far beyond the PPC8A itself, and include long-term support, configuration control and obsolescence management. Enhanced features, built above proven core technology, offer the widest design options to new programs and to existing PowerXpress users needing a seamless upgrade. The latest G4+ PowerPC silicon, extra serial ports, Gigabit Ethernet, USB and graphics, are all additional to the PPC6 profile. Features Processor PowerPC 7447 at up to The 7447 is Freescale’s latest processor in its G4+ family, offering a combination of high frequency, 1.2 GHz compatible efficient power consumption and 512 KB of on-chip L2 Cache with future Freescale (SPECInt95 = 43.79 @ 1 GHz, SPECfp95 = 31.61 @1 GHz) offerings SBC Typical Power Consumption when fitted with 7447 and 256 MB SDRAM = 20W System Marvell ‘Discovery’ The Marvell Discovery Integrated System Controller (ISC) combines a high bandwidth memory Controller controller, two PCI interfaces and a range of communications peripherals, all on a single chip L2 Cache 512 KB On-chip L2 cache running at core frequency Main 256 MB to 1 GB The CPU is interfaced to the main memory via a 64 bit data bus running at 100 MHz . Up to 1GB Memory SDRAM with ECC SDRAM with ECC supported, 256 MB being fitted as standard FLASH 64 MB to 128 MB The CPU is interfaced to the FLASH memory via a 32 bit data bus running at 100 MHz . 64 MB are Memory FLASH fitted as standard, 16 MB of which are allocated to Boot FLASH. Within the Boot FLASH is the BANC area (Boot Area, Non-Corruptible) which has factory write access only. This contains a firmware moni- tor that can re-boot the board, should all other loaded programs be corrupted Non-volatile 32kB NVRAM NVRAM combines the advantages of SRAM (fast read and write) and EPROM (non-volatility) providing RAM non-volatile storage for data which must not be lost when power is removed. Includes Power down Autostore capability Real-Time 1 sec. resolution The RTC provides TOD/ calendar with 1 sec resolution. Uses top mounted lithium battery Clock 2 ports of Two Ethernet Channels are provided from the Discovery ISC and are available through the P2 10/100 BASE-T connector (Ethernet 1and 2) Ethernet Interfaces Gigabit Ethernet A single channel of 10/100/1000 BASE-T is available on a dedicated front I/O RJ45 socket (Ethernet 3) COM 1,2 RS232, provided from the integrated Southbridge. Routed as both Front and Rear I/O COM 3,4 Async / Sync capable, provided from the Discovery ISC. Both channels are software selectable to be Serial ports RS232 / 422 or 485 COM 5,6 Provided from a 16550 compatible DUART. Both channels are software selectable to be RS232 / 422 or 485 Keyboard PS/2 compatible Available as a build option instead of USB 1.1 and Mouse USB 1,2 USB 1.1 compatible Available as a build option instead of Keyboard and Mouse USB 3,4 USB 2.0 compatible PCI based USB 2.0 device, one channel routed to dedicated front I/O Type A USB socket, 2nd channel routed to P0 Floppy disk Software compatible with DP8473, 765A and NS82077 (option instead of parallel port) controller SCSI 8 bit Ultra SCSI 40 MB /sec. Routed to P2 Discrete 16 bits Up to 16 bits of TTL compatible Discrete Digital I/O capable of generating an interrupt. Build option Digital I/O instead of parallel port Parallel port IEEE P1284 compatible Provided from Southbridge. Build option instead of Discrete Digital I/O Timers 8 x 32 bit timer / coun- Eight 32 bit wide timer/counters configurable as either a timer or counter, provided from the Discovery ters ISC Watchdog 2 off The Watchdog timer has a fixed 1.6 second time-out period provided by CPU supervisor. A second Timer programmable WTD is available in the Discovery ISC DMA 8 available 8 DMA controllers are available in the Discovery ISC for efficiently moving large blocks of data engines VME Tundra Universe II VME64 Master/Slave with SYSCON capability Video Standard SVGA output Integrated Video accelerator with on-chip memory. 69030 (with 4 MB integrated SDRAM) fitted as an optional feature JTAG On-card connector A JTAG header is accessible for both factory test and software de-bug purposes. Access to JTAG via P1 Interface Row Z. On-card header for CPU emulator access Software Full Radstone software Radstone’s Deployed Test strategy is fully implemented with a combination of BIT (comprehensive support power-up Built-In-Test firmware) and BCS (Background Condition Screening for non-destructive, con- tinuous on-line testing). Also included in Radstone’s COTS software support are BSPs (Board support Packages) and ESPs (Enhanced Support Packages) for WindRiver’s VxWorks, and planned support for LynuxWorks’ LynxOS and Green Hills INTEGRITY. (BCS is delivered as part of the ESP) USB 1/2 Kbd/Mouse Up to USB 4 Up to COM 1/2 128 MB* To P0 1 GB** SDRAM FLASH USB Discovery SVGA SCSI 2.0 Integrated PowerPC 10/100/1000 System 7447 ETHERNET Controller 32 Bit 33 MHz PCI Bus 64 Bit 66 MHz PCI Bus TUNDRA Universe II 32 KB SOUTH PMC PMC Autostore BRIDGE Slot 2 Slot 1 NVRAM Battery Backed DUART RTC & NVRAM USB 4 JTAG P0 P1 P2 64 MB FLASH fitted as standard. 256 MB SDRAM fitted as standard. * ** Figure 1: PPC8A Functional Block Diagram Gigabit Ethernet VME64 P1 PMC1 I/O PMC2 I/O PMC1 I/O, USB 2.0 PMC2 I/O (Pins 46 - 64) Ethernet 1, 2 SCSI COM 1,2 COM 3, 4 USB 2.0 (or PMC2 I/O) COM 5,6 Parallel (or Discrete I/O) COM 1/2 Kbd, Kbd, Mouse (or USB 1.1) Mouse SVGA GRAPHICS (or USB 1.1) JTAG Header Figure 2: PPC8A I/O Diagram SCSI SVGA VME Parallel/Digital IO USB 1/2 Key'd Mouse COM 1/2 COM 5/6 Ethernet 1/2 COM 3/4 USB 3 Pins> 46 Ethernet 3 Summary of Primary and Secondary IO PMC Site 2 Tracking Options 3x150Ω Pairs to P2 for Analog graphics 10x100Ω Triples to P2 for Digital graphics (4 for DVI, 6 for LVDS) Primary IO options are selected by the 5th digit (X) in the 6x100Ω Pairs to P0 for Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Channel order code ie PPC8A-xxxxXxx PMC Site 1 Tracking IO Options P2 PMCRear I/O Com 3/4/5/6 Graphics 3x150Ω Pairs to P0 for Analog graphics ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 1 - 10x100Ω Triples to P0 for Digital graphics (4 for DVI, 6 for LVDS) 2 ✔ ✔ - - ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ B - Operating System Support ✔ ✔ C - - A number of of mission critical, real-time operating Table1: Primary IO Functions systems are supported on the PPC8A:- Secondary IO options are selected by the 4th digit (X) in the order code ie PPC8A-xxxXxx IO USB GPIO Key’d Parallel Options Mouse ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 0 - - VxWorks; a highly scaleable and deterministic run-time ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 1 - - system. Distributed backplane and networking support. ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 - - Large base of third-party support. The PowerX BSP & ESP ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 3 - - from Radstone both run PPC1A/2A/4/4A/4B/6/7A/8A from Table2: Secondary IO Functions one object code. Ruggedization Levels VxWorks, the run-time component of the Tornado II embedded development platform, is the most widely The PPC8A is available in Radstone’s Ruggedization Levels adopted real-time operating system (RTOS) in the 1 and 2 for use in convection-cooled environments. See embedded industry. Tornado II also includes a Radstone’s Ruggedization data Sheet for further details comprehensive suite of core and optional cross- development tools and utilities, and a full range of Ruggedization Levels 1 2 communications options for the target connection to the Cooling Method Convection host. Conformal Coat Optional Standard High Temp 55ºC 65ºC Operational @ 300ft/min @ 300ft/min Low Temp 0ºC -20ºC Operational Storage Temp -50 to +100ºC 0.002g2/Hz from 10 to 2000Hz random and Vibration 2g sinusoidal from 5 to 500Hz LynxOS; hard real-time Unix with full memory management support. Conforms to full POSIX standards. Shock 20g peak sawtooth, 11mS duration Features Linux binary compatibility at 4.0. The PowerX Up to 95% RH with varying temperature, 10 Humidity BSP & ESP from Radstone both run cycles, 240 hours PPC1A/2A/4/4A/4B/6/7A/8A from one object code. Table 3: Radstone’s Ruggedization Levels Summary: hard real-time determinism; complete MMU Impedance Controlled Tracking From based protected address spaces for tasks; Linux application PMC Sites binary interface (ABI) personality; Linux binaries run unchanged on LynxOS v4.0; Comprehensive POSIX API The PPC8A provides impedance controlled tracking from conformance 1003.1, .1b & .1c; LynxOS 4.0 also exhibits its PMC sites to its P2 and P0 IO connectors, to ensure true linear scalability. signal integrity when used with high speed signals. specifically designed to be co-operative with the normal functioning of the COTS O/S that is running the application. In addition to providing minimal impact on INTEGRITY; maximum reliability, royalty-free real-time system latency, this method avoids a difficulty that arises operating system. Support for Radstone boards including when ‘calling back’ into a traditional, stand-alone test the PPC1A/2A/4/4A/4B/6/7A/8A is available direct from firmware, written in ignorance of the O/S and probably our technology partner, Green Hills Software Inc. assuming exclusive use of board resources. Such firmwares may not gaurantee the restoration of the entire and The royalty free INTEGRITY RTOS uses hardware memory complex machine state as the O/S left it. BCS works chiefly protection to isolate and protect itself, and user tasks, from through O/S mechanisms and doesn’t compromise the incorrect operation caused by accidental errors or machine state imposed by the O/S. malicious tampering. Radstone’s BCS for VxWorks is downloadable or can be Deployed Test Software linked to the VxWorks O/S executable image. It can be PPC8A features the most effective deployed test strategy in launched from the VxWorks shell or from an application. the industry, highly adapted to the characteristics of Configuration can be static, via the Tornado Project Tool, modern COTS silicon and COTS operating systems (O/Ss). or dynamic via an interactive menu. This strategy is implemented through our Built-In-Test (BIT) and Background Condition Screening (BCS) components. Configurable parameters include the thread priority to run BCS at, plus various test options and other characteristics. To facilitate smooth technology insertion the object code An error log is stored in FLASH, in addition to visual modules, for BIT and BCS, run on all PowerX board family indication of a detected failure. An application interface is members of any age and variant produced since the provided for immediate invocation of individual tests in family’s inception in 1995. addition to the default running of tests in background Built-In-Test (BIT) mode. BIT provides an initialization test for all on-board Logs and scrubs single bit errors functional areas of PPC8A. Highest possible coverage, 95%, is achieved by the use of intrusive testing, with BIT Comprehensive main memory test. By dedicating small assuming exclusive use of device resources. BIT executes segments per bank for exclusive BCS usage, and in before any COTS O/S, and passes control to the O/S upon conjunction with ECC circuitry, all failure modes completion. Testing in conjunction with a COTS O/S is throughout all the memory can be detected without accomplished by BCS, see below. destructive action outside of the BCS segments. BIT is a highly configurable component, with options for System and User background FLASH checksumming individual tests and sub-tests. System wide coverage to NVRAM checksum Radstone PMCs or other Radstone VME boards is handled. PCIbus error condition monitoring Custom tests for bespoke equipment can readily be added. Preset PCI configuration verification Test results are stored in FLASH for later analysis by the Temperature monitoring (board and CPU) application, in addition to visual indication. Radstone BIT features ‘Fast Start’, whereby if BIT detects a state change Temperature throttling of a particular backplane pin, it skips all tests. The Network connectivity backplane pin is usually connected to an electro- SCSI connectivity mechanical ‘brown-out’ detector. Bus memory probing Coverage methodolgy and proofs for PowerX boards are Real-Time clock test available. Please request our brochure "BIT coverage – a Global hardware register verification straightforward guide". Tests of 8250-compatible COM port devices Background Condition Screening (BCS) Altivec and FPU tests BCS provides continuous, online health monitoring. It runs Custom tests can be integrated as a task thread, featuring non-intrusive tests that are Standard Ordering Information Sales Code Description 1GHz PowerPC 7447 – 256 MB of SDRAM PPC8A-1E41CBx 1 GHz PowerPC 7447, 6U VME SBC, Level 1; 256 MB SDRAM, 64 MB FLASH, RTC, 1 x 10/100/1000 BASE-T , 2 x 10/100 BASE-T, Ultra SCSI, 2 x USB 1.1 , 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x RS232 & 4 x RS232 / 422 / 485 ports, Keyboard, mouse, 16 bits GPIO, 2 PMC slots, 5Row P1 & P2, 95 way P0, No Graphics PPC8A-2E41CBx Air-cooled level 2 as above with conformal coating 1GHz PowerPC 7447 – 256 MB of SDRAM PPC8A-1E45BBX 1 GHz PowerPC 7447, 6U VME SBC, Level 1; 256 MB SDRAM, 128 MB FLASH, RTC, 1 x 10/100/1000 BASE-T , 2 x 10/100 BASE-T, Ultra SCSI, 2 x USB 1.1 , 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x RS232 & 4 x RS232 / 422 / 485 ports, Keyboard, mouse, 16 bits GPIO, 2 PMC slots, 5Row P1 & P2, 95 way P0, Graphics PPC8A-2E45BBX Air-cooled level 2 as above with conformal coating X = software option. Note: The standard ordering information (above) defines the standard build variant. Consult factory for availability of further build options. PPC8A Accessories Sales Code Description XPRESSIOKIT2 PPC8A I/O kit comprises of the following components P25X606-11200 P2 Transition Module- Provides connections for 2 x 10 / 100 BASE- T Ethernet, ULTRA SCSI, COM 1,2,3,4,5 & 6 Serial, Parallel, Mouse & Keyboard ports, GPIO, Video and USB 1.1 SIOX600-S 3U Serial I/O Panel- Provides 2 x 9 Way D type connectors and 0.5m internal ribbon cable. For use on COM 1 to 6 ports when RS232 is specified. Requires 3 to access all ports, 2 supplied. SIO2X600-S 3U Serial I/O Panel- Provides 2 x 25 Way D type connectors and 0.5m internal ribbon cable. For use on COM 1 to 6 ports when RS232 is specified. Requires 3 to access all ports, 1 supplied. SIO3X600-S 3U Serial I/O Panel- Provides 1 x 25 Way D type connectors and 0.5m internal ribbon cable. Complies with RS530 pin out and signal set. May be used with COM3 & 4 ports when RS422 is specified. Requires 2 to access both ports, 2 supplied PMKX600-S 3U Panel for Parallel, Mouse & Keyboard- Provides a 25 Way D type parallel connector and two PS/2 connectors with 0.5m internal rib- bon cable SCSIX600-S 3U Honda SCSI Panel- Provides Honda connector and 0.5m internal ribbon cable USA 10BTX600-S 3U 10/100 BASE-T Panel- Provides RJ45 plug to RJ45 socket Telephone: +1 (800) 368-2738 on a 3U mounting plate with 1 metre cable. Requires 2 for both Ethernet E-mail: sales@radstone.com ports, 2 supplied EUROPE USBX606-11 3U Panel for 4 USB ports- Provides 4 standard USB sockets Telephone: +44 (0) 1327 359444 on a 3U mounting plate (0.5m cable) E-mail: sales@radstone.co.uk PPC6MSC1-D151 Cable- Mouse & Keyboard COM 1 cable 15 way Micro ASIA D type to PS/2, 1m long Telephone: +61 (0)7 5538 4442 E-mail: salesasia@radstone.com C-CBL000050-001- Cable for USB Visit www.radstone.com for a full list of C-CBL000051-001- Cable for 10/100/1000 Ethernet regional offices and contact details © Radstone Technology PLC 2004 Publication RT287 02/2004 RADSTONE and the Radstone symbol are registered This publication is issued to provide outline information only which (unless agreed by the company in writing) may not be used, trademarks of Radstone Technology PLC. applied or reproduced for any purpose or form part of any order or contract or be regarded as a representation relating to prod- All other trademarks are the property of their ucts or services concerned. 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