Company Contact: Jim Bridges (610) 776-6669
MIPS RISC Processor Board Introduced by CAC
Single-slot VMEbus board is aimed at general purpose configurable computing
Allentown, PA. September 20, 1995. Communication Automation & Control (CAC) announced today the availability of its V6M6 VMEbus board with 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS RISC processor modules. Six plug-in module sites offers the user an easy method to configure and upgrade the board's performance and memory capacity to the application's requirements. The V6M6 carrier board is available with 32 MB or 64 MB of global DRAM which is accessible by all processor modules.
A PCI bus serves as the global communications path among processors and shared memory. Four TDM (Time Division Multiplexed) buses provides the serial data I/O among the processors and CAC's DSP, T1/E1 telecom and analog VME boards.
Two MIPS processor and one DRAM modules can be used in any combination to populate the six sites. The processor modules have their own 4, 8 or 16 MB local memory and FPGAs for the user to configure them to suit individual processing requirements.
The PM3081E processor module utilizes the IDT R3081E 32-bit RISC processor and either 4 or 8 MB DRAM. When fully populated, the V6M6 delivers 210 MIPS and 66 MFLOPS.
The R4600 module utilizes the IDT 4600 64-bit Orion processor with either 8 or 16 MB DRAM. Up to four of these modules may be used on the V6M6 to achieve 480 MIPS and 160 MFLOPS.
The MM32 module increases the shared global DRAM in 32 MB increments.
A MIPS kernel operating system facilitates porting of applications running on UNIX workstations to the CAC boards. The kernel is protected from application processes and supports multiple processes running in protected address space. It also supports standard UNIX- like sockets for communications between processors and the hot workstation.
"This superior performance and configurability makes the CAC V6M6 the ideal post-processing complement to our full line of DSP processors," said Jim Bridges, CAC's president. It fills the needs of our customers engaged in applications such as telecom signal processing or spectral analysis, where they might use one or more of our AT&T DSP32C boards to do the classical front-end digital signal processing. They would then call upon our new V6M6 MIPS processor to do back-end processing on the numerical results, such as pattern matching, compression or bit manipulation," he added.
Pricing and Availability The V6M6 carrier board with 32 MB DRAM is priced at $5,000. The PM3081E module with 4 MB DRAM is priced at $2,250, while the PM4600 module is $4,500. The MM32 module costs $3,000.
These are single-piece prices, and quantity discounts are available.
Deliveries run 6 to 8 weeks ARO.
For further information, contact:
Communication
Automation and Control
1642 Union Blvd. Ste. 200
Allentown, PA 18103-1510
Tel: (610) 776-6669
Fax: (610) 770-1232
Email: sales@cacdsp.com