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Rugged air- or conduction-cooled SBC suitable for retrofit and technology insertion applications

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the SVME/DMV-194, the latest addition to its low power VME (virtual machine environment) SBCs. The 6U VME64 SBC is based on a Freescale Power Architecture QorIQ P2020 processor with dual 1.2GHz cores. This rugged air- or conduction-cooled SBC is suitable for upgrading existing SWaP-C constrained systems based on older PowerPC or Power Architecture processors, according to the company. The SBC provides system integrators with a suitable path for the technology insertion upgrade of legacy VME systems. Designed for military systems that require maximum processing in extreme temperature conditions, the SBC features power dissipation rated at 20 to 25W. Available in the company’s range of ruggedness levels, the SBC is suitable for retrofit and technology insertion applications. The board features two 64bit PMC and XMC sites and a large complement of I/O including Gigabit Ethernet, up to six serial ports, SATA, 1553 and USB 2.0 ports.The SBC also has optional pin-out modes for backplane compatibility; it eases the upgrade of systems based on the legacy VME/DMV-179, SVME/DMV-181, SVME/DMV-182 and SVME/DMV-183 SBCs, claims the company. The SBC features powerful general-purpose single or dual core SBC and full complement of I/O capability such as Ethernet, SCSI (small computer system interface), serial, USB 2.0, MIL-STD-1553, SATA, TTL (transistor-transistor logic) and differential discretes. The software support includes VxWorks BSP and driver suite, Curtiss-Wright Wind River Linux 4.x, and INTEGRITY BSP and driver suite. The SBC also features a foundation firmware including BIT (built-in-test), non-volatile memory programmer, and secure erase utility.