THALES COMPUTERS Where COTS Meets Reality PowerEngine VMPC6c & VMPC6c-Dual With the latest PowerPC 74X0 (G4) processor and its AltiVec™ vector unit, the PowerEngine6 family of COTS SBCs provides an innovative solution for the most demanding data and signal processing computers in military and aerospace applications. www.thalescomputers.com PowerEngine6 Series compliant device including microproces- ASIC Innovation General Overview sor support, support for all variation of To offer the best board-level solutions, At Thales Computers, we have a whole- edge/level high/low polarity on 32 inter- Thales Computers teamed with IBM to system philosophy when it comes to rupt sources. With numerous timers, develop the key chips of the innovation. We actively pursue and devel- control of NVRAM and Flash Memory, PowerEngine6 architecture and to take op techniques for improving our product FIFOs for message passing, ..., COBRA advantage of IBM technology for low performance, I/O capabilities, cluster eases the development of real-time appli- power consumption. management and ruggedness to give our cation and the control of complex I/Os. customers maximum design flexibility AVIGNON, the host bridge, benefits of Designed for harsh environ- the cumulated experience of both part- with cutting-edge technology. The ments ners since the beginning of the PowerPC PowerEngine6 series represents anoth- Thales Computers’ SBC products and brings new features and perform- er step forward in Thales Computers' respond to a diverse range of ruggediza- ances adapted to the PowerPC 750 and technology progress. As the PowerPC tion requirements in embedded applica- 74X0 (G4) versions: double-bank experts, we continue to track the evolu- tions. Available in several different con- SDRAM memory with ECC, support of tion of PowerPC® technology and offer figurations representing multiple levels dual processor with 100 and 133 MHz our customers extensive COTS design of ruggedization, the boards can be tai- PowerPC bus, management of two PCI experience. Of course, the Power- lored to any application’s needs. busses: one 32-bit PCI bus for I/O man- Engine6 series is available with The Ruggedization occurs early in the SBC’s agement and a second 64-bit PCI bus at Ruggedizer™, our patented convection design phase following Thales up to 66 MHz. This chip is now part of and conduction cooled heatsink solution Computers’ stringent selection of com- the IBM offering (part number CPC710). for harsh environments. ponents, strict design and layout rules, ALMA64 is the PCI/VME bus bridge To maintain an innovative edge, Thales intense simulation tests and an estab- that interfaces the 32-bit PCI bus of AVI- Computers aligns itself with key organi- lished high-quality manufacturing GNON with the VME64 bus. Due to its zations and industry leaders. Our close process. very little die size, ALMA64 overbeats development partnership with IBM has The PowerEngine6 SBC designed-in the competition for low power designs. resulted in jointly-designed ASICs for ruggedization is then augmented with optimizing on-board resource access, COBRA is dedicated to the control of The Ruggedizer™, a patented heat-drain and has given Thales Computers early interrupts and other real-time functions. technology from Thales. The Power- access to the latest IBM chip designs. Interrupt control features an OpenPIC Engine6 family is available with four lev- els of ruggedization: “standard” (SA) for commercial applications, “extended” 1 VME Slot: Easy to Integrate (WA) for higher climatic and humidity • High performance COTS VME solution constraints, and two Ruggedizer for signal processing • Compact rugged design for severe environments equipped models : the rugged air cooled • Low power consumption and dissipation version (RA) and the rugged convection cooled version (RC) for harsh conditions such as shock, vibration and humidity. After years of providing harsh environ- One standard design ment solutions, Thales Computers’ for multiple levels Outstanding Performance ruggedized PowerEngine6 family is of Ruggedization • Dual PowerPC 7400 uniquely positioned to provide a wide (G4) architecture • SA: Standard • Optimized double range of products for the industrial, mil- commercial bank memory environments itary and aerospace environments. management • WA: -20° up to +65°C • Two high • RA: Rugged air The products: VMPC6c & performance convection cooled version VMPC6c-Dual PCI busses (-40° up to +75°C) • RC: Conduction The PowerEngine 6c single board com- cooled version puter features one or two PowerPC (-40° up to +85°C) 74X0 microprocessors from Motorola. With its AltiVec™ vector processing unit, the PowerPC 74X0 is ideally suited Includes standard for signal processing functions and lead- powerful SBC ing edge computing. With more than (Single Board 1400 MIPS in a single VME slot, the Computers) Wide Range of VMPC6c delivers unprecedented com- Operating Systems functionalities puting power and enables real-time pro- • SCSI and Development Solutions cessing of the most demanding data • Ethernet • Standard Real-Time • Flash memory streams. Combined with Thales environments • Numerous I/Os Computers’ software extensions to the (LynxOS, Tornado/VxWorks, ...) • Built-In-Test base operating system which ease the • Compatibility with the CHRP Wide range of PCI standard development and deployment of applica- Mezzanine Cards (PMC) with • A complete range of tools for tions on complex architectures, the the development of complex Corresponding Drivers VMPC6c and VMPC6c-Dual provide a data and signal processing • Graphics, new COTS approach for data and signal applications • Communications, processing in military and aerospace • High-speed networking, equipment. • Data acquisition, ... VMPC6c &➜➜ALMA64 VME Interface SDRAM Memory • 64, 128, 256 or 512 MB of on-board • Managed by the ALMA 64/IBM PCI to VMPC6c-Dual SDRAM with ECC VME bridge component, a highly inte- • Double bank memory management grated low power single chip solution Thales Computers’ VMPC6c SBCs are handled by the AVIGNON CPC710 host • VME64 ANSI/VITA 1-1994 compliant designed to support Motorola’s latest bridge PowerPC G4 technologies. • VMEbus system controller • VMEbus requester (Level 1-4) The VMPC6c and VMPC6c-Dual, as ➜Cache Memory specified below, have an on-board single • VMEbus interrupter and interrupt han- or dual PowerPC 74X0 processor fea- dler (IRQ1-7) 2 MB cache memory per processor is implemented (high performance trans- turing 400 MHz+ speeds. • VMEbus master/slave A32, A24, fers due to dedicated L2 Bus) running at A16: D32, D16, D8, UAT high speed (clock ratio 1:2). • VMEbus master/slave A32, A24: Technical Data D32BLT, D64MBLT ➜ROM Memory • Programmable VME slave image base ➜PowerPC Processor address and size (8 VME slave chan- 512 KB + 1 MB of system Flash EPROM nels) memory are available for initialization •Either one or two superscalar and operating system boot routines. • PCI to VME access conversion PowerPC 74X0 processors operating through 8 MB granularity mapping Additional User Flash (up to 32 MB) are at 400 MHz+ devoted to embedded system require- table • Mips: 730 at 400 MHz per processor ments. • Transmit/Receive FIFOs • L1: 32-KB instruction cache and 32- KB data cache • Programmable posted write, prefetch ➜NVRAM/RTC read, coupled mode • Four instructions per clock cycle • Programmable BB2BLT mode: map- An 8 KB NVRAM chip provides conven- • Dynamic branch prediction ping of multiple single PCI accesses to ient non-volatile storage for board • Multiple integer units parameters.MT48T18 (SA class) or a VMEbus BLT/MBLT cycle • Memory Management Unit (MMU) MT48T59 (RA and RC classes) provide • Semaphore registers • 64-bit data bus real-time clock and time of day with bat- • VME/PCI 2 channels DMA controller • Fully JTAG compliant tery backed storage. • RISCWATCH functionality (S and W This NVRAM/RTC feature is standard ➜Keyboard / Mouse build levels) on SA class products and optional on RA • Low Power Implementation • Keyboard and mouse interface and RC class products. • AltiVec™ extension VME64 Interface P1 (5-row) VMEbus P2 (5-row) ➜Ethernet Interface P0 • On-board PCnet-PCI Ethernet con- troller: 10/100 Base-T on front panel or P2 (build option on P2 for S, W and System ECC FLASH PMC RA build levels products, standard on SDRAM ALMA 64 User I/Os PCI/VME RC) PMC Bridge Connectors AVIGNON • ANSI 802.3 compliant Host COBRA • Managed by INTEL's 21143 chip Bridge 64-bit PCI 33 or 66 MHz Real-Time 32-bit PCI Bus Processor Bus I/O Controller ➜SCSI Interface PowerPC PowerPC 2 MB 2 MB CPU CPU L2 cache L2 cache This interface enables easy connection User with industry-standard mass storage FLASH ISA-like bus devices (i.e. hard disk, CD-ROM, stream- er, ...). Serial Serial SCSI Ethernet • Managed by the SYM53C875A PCI- Kb/Ms 1 2 Adapter Adapter SCSI I/O processor (SIOP) • Wide Ultra SCSI bus transfers in sin- gle-ended mode (40 MB/sec) Optional ➜Serial Lines • Two available RS-232 ports up to 115.2 Kb/s ETHERNET PCI MEZZANINE CARD Kb/Ms SERIAL SCSI RST • Handled by TL16C550C components STOP FLT1 FLT2 CPUBUS CPU 1/2 VME SCSI EPCI • INS8250N-B, PC16550A, PC16450 ETH software compatible VMPC6c Thales Computers’ COBRA technology is These tools include machine supervision ➜PCI Interface also optimized for real-time applications building blocks which insulate the end Two PCI interfaces (master/slave with and offers: user from low level hardware details as burst capability) are implemented on the • Connection to PCI bus Rev. 2.0 well as cross-compilers and multiproces- PowerEngine6: (slave mode) sor debugger products that are compat- • ISA-like interface for serial ports, • The internal interface provides a high- ible with the various CASE environments. RTC, ... speed backbone for local interconnect Finally, in addition to its standard sup- of on-board devices (Host Bridge, • Large non-volatile memory interface port services, Thales Computers offers Ethernet, SCSI, keyboard and (NVRAM, Flash, ...) mouse, ...) and is fully compliant to customized help to system integrators • Optimized message passing with four PCI Specs- Rev.2.0 (32-bit) on a consultancy basis. high density FIFOs • The external PCI interface is a user • General purpose I/Os PCI interface designed for connecting • Four highly programmable 32-bit glob- PMC mezzanine modules (1553,➜Connectivity al timers Graphics, Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, ...), • All the I/Os on Thales Computers’ and provides a Rev. 2.0 standard 64- PowerEngine6 SBCs are available bit PCI interface that can operate at➜PBIT, IBIT either via the front panel or on VME 33 or 66 MHz Automatically triggered at power up, P2 connector . Both the PowerEngine6 single and dual PBIT executes several simple checks of • For the conduction cooled version SBC can maintain concurrent bus opera- main board functions before launching (RC), all I/Os are directed to P2 tions on two PCI buses using a uniquely the VMPCBug monitor. IBIT can then be optimized host bridge. This allows appli- according to IEEE 1101.2-1992 stan- executed, on demand, by using the cations using PCIs to operate efficiently dard. “auto” firmware command. IBIT executes in parallel, doubling available throughput. a comprehensive suite of functional tests • 6 general purpose Input/Output TTL and leaves results in main DRAM of the compatible signals are available via board. These non-intrusive IBIT tests the VME P2 (connected to COBRA). ➜PMC Carrier Card cover more than 95% of the boards's functional nodes. These test results can For configurations requiring additional be read back by the board's operating PCI connectivity, Thales Computers Thales Computers'➜ system or can be collected by another offers a PMC carrier card that provides Product Warranty and VMPC board running the rack supervi- two extra PMC slots. The PMC carrier sion software. Services card is fitted in an adjacent VMEbus slot. Applications requiring up to three PCI • All of Thales Computers' hardware slots (such as redundant configurations) products are covered by a twelve ➜Software can therefore be easily implemented. month return-to-factory warranty. Thales Computers provides the neces- The following table summarizes the num- • Several service programs are avail- sary real-time OS extensions on the ber of PMC slots available with/without able, including update services, hotline the carrier board: VMPC6c and VMPC6c-dual to facilitate access, product repair and exchange development of high-end real-time data services, technical assistance, on-site and signal processing applications on or remote technical assistance. Configuration Available VME clusters of multiprocessor boards. • ISO 9001: Thales Computers' ISO These extensions are available for oper- PMC Slots Slots 9001 certification is just another way ating systems such as LynxOS or VMPC6c without VxWorks. For example, a VSIPL* library for us to back Thales Computers' com- Carrier Card 1 1 optimized for the G4 boosts the per- mitment to quality products and cus- formance of the AltiVec™ vector unit tomer service. VMPC6c with while simplifying the programming of Carrier Card 3 2 portable signal processing code. In addition, Thales Computers offers a ➜Miscellaneous specific software called DDLink that • Board size: VME double Eurocard manages and optimizes data transfers For the Rugged versions (RC and RA), (6U: 233.3 mm x 160 mm) between the processing units in large the PMC slot can accept conduction • Single VME slot scale signal processing applications cooled PMC according to CCPMC VITA • Convection cooled version (VMPC6a implemented on multiple computing 2.0 standard (draft 1.2). nodes. This API and associated protocol /RA) carries the ruggedizer but keeps operating on processor busses imple- the front panel I/O ment a NO-COPY message passing sys- • Conduction cooled version (VMPC6a Thales Computers➜ tem. DDLink is also used to seamlessly /RC) is IEEE 1101.2-1992 compliant Dedicated Real-Time I/O implement any System Area Network and is a single VME slot solution. Controller: COBRA with various hardware communication • Electromagnetic compatibility: fabrics technologies. The COBRA chip brings a highly-integrat- NF EN 55022 Class B ed single chip solution to control inter- Thales Computers also provides the nec- NF EN 50082-2 rupts by providing up to 32 I/O device essary tools to facilitate management • All Thales Computers SBCs are EC interrupts inputs and 4 interprocessor and monitoring of complex multi-board interrupts. architectures. compliant. * See www.vsipl.org for details VMPC6c Technical Features CPU ETHERNET Interface Processor One or two PowerPC 74X0 (G4/Altivec) • On-board 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interface managed by the INTEL 21143 chip Clock Frequency 400 MHz and higher • 10/100 BaseT connectivity MIPS 730 at 400 Mhz per processor • 10 BaseT on all build levels MEMORY • ANSI 802.3 compliant Global Memory 64, 128, 256, 512 MB on board MISCELLANEOUS ECC Yes (standard) • 2 asynchronous RS-232 serial lines - Max: 115.2 Kb/s Cache Memory 2 MB per processor • Keyboard / Mouse interface (on processor dedicated bus) POWER REQUIREMENTS (maximum) ROM Memory 512 KB + 1 MB System Flash Memory Single Dual Up to 32 MB User Flash +5V (+5%, -2.5%) 6.1A 8.3A VME INTERFACE ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS SA / WA RA RC • ALMA V64 VME/PCI bridge with semaphore registers Temperature range • A32/A24/A16 master / slave Operating SA: 0 to +55°C -40 to +75°C -40 to +85°C • D64 (MBLT) / D32 (BLT) / D16 / D08 master / slave WA: -20 to +65°C • 5-row connectors compatible with 3-row backplanes Storage -45 to +85°C -45 to +100°C -45 to +100°C Conformal Coating SA: Opt. / WA: Std Standard Standard USER PCI INTERFACE Relative Humidity no condensation • PCI fully compliant (32/64-bit) 90% 95 % 10 cycles 240 hours • 1 PMC slot (up to 3 with carrier card) Mechanical • 33 or 66 MHz selectable PCI frequency Vibration Sine 5-200 Hz 5-2000 Hz 5-2000 Hz • DMA engine: DRAM <-> PCI 2g Peak 2.5g Peak 5g Peak 2 2 2 Vibration 0.01 g /Hz 10-40 Hz 0.04 g Hz 0.1 g Hz INTERNAL PCI INTERFACE 2 Random 0.0007 g /Hz 100-200 Hz with a flat response to 1,000 Hz On board I/O devices 2 0.00005 g /Hz 2000 Hz 6dB/Oct roll-off from 1Khz-2KHz • PCI Rev. 2 fully compliant Shock 10g Peak 16 ms 40g Peak 20 ms • Fully dual ported with user PCI Half Sine Pulse Half Sine Pulse Bumps 40g Peak 6 ms, Half Sine Pulse SCSI INTERFACE 3 bumps/sec and 1,000 bumps • Wide Ultra SCSI per direction (RA and RC build levels support Fast Wide) Altitude -1000 to 15000 ft -1000 to 70000 ft Standard Extended Rugged(Air) Rugged Code VMPC6c ➜(Air) Temperature Convection Conduction PowerEngine6 Order Code (Air) Cooled Cooled Processors Dual XX X X 1 XX X X Quad 2 Environment Class: Standard (Air) X SA Extended Temperature (Air) X WA Rugged Convection-Cooled (Air) X RA Rugged Conduction-Cooled X RC XX X X Clock Speed 400Mhz 1 SDRAM 128 MB XX X X 2 256 MB XX X X 3 512 MB XX X X 4 Flash 8 MB XX X X 0 32 MB XX X X 2 Ethernet Link Front panel Ethernet is default XX X 0 Ethernet routed to backplane XX X Default 1 P0 connector No P0 connector is default XX X X 0 P0 connector fitted XX X X 1 PMC slot VIO key 5V is default XX X X 0 (PCI Signaling Voltage) 3.3V XX X X 1 Coating X Default Default Default V Thales Computers , The Ruggedizer and PowerEngine are registered trademarks of Thales Computers S.A. 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