Aitech C100

Introduction

Aitech's C100 is the first VME SBC to combine a powerful processing engine with versatile and flexible I/O capabilities for harsh environment applications. Powered by Motorola's advanced PowerPC® G4+ MPC7455 microprocessor with its integrated on-chip L2 cache and supporting L3 cache, the C100 provides extremely high computing power.

To further support the high performance processor a large and fast SDRAM array is also implemented in the C100. Additional memory arrays are provided, such as Flash for user application storage, high-density Flash File for mass storage purposes and NVRAM for user/application specific parameters storage. In addition to its high performance processor architecture the C100 provides unparalleled I/O capabilities all integrated on board. I/O interfaces include three Ethernet ports (one Gigabit and two Fast Ethernet ports), two dual redundant MIL-STD-1553B interfaces, two IEEE1394a (FireWire) ports, two USB 2.0 ports, eight serial ports (six of which are high-speed ports and two are standard UART ports) and up to 16 general-purpose discrete I/O channels.

To complete its extensive capabilities and further expand them, the C100 is equipped with 2 PMC slots allowing installation of additional modules on top. The C100 internal architecture is based on two separate PCI buses, one operating at 66 MHz while the other at 33 MHz, allowing separation of the slow PCI devices from the faster ones and thus enabling each PCI device to operate at its top speed. In order to achieve maximum bus utilization multiple advanced
programmable DMA engines are available for data transfer over the PCI buses.

The C100 implements a VME64x compliant interface using Tundra's Universe II PCI to VME Bridge.

The C100 highly integrated design guarantees unmatched performance and versatility currently available on any rugged conduction or air-cooled PowerPC® VME SBC.