The Emerson Network Power MVME3100 Single Board Computer helps OEMs of industrial, medical, and defense/aerospace VMEbus platforms add performance and features for competitive advantage while still protecting the fundamental investment in VMEbus and related technologies. Customers can keep their VMEbus infrastructure (chassis, backplanes, and other VMEbus and PMC boards) while improving performance and extending the lifecycle. Also, the extended lifecycle of Emerson computing products helps reduce churns in development and support efforts resulting from frequent product changes.
The MVME3100 , one of the first VMEbus products with the system-on-chip MPC8540 processor, offers a growth path for VMEbus customers with applications on the previous generation of VME, specifically the MPC8240 and similar (MPC603 family) processors. The system-on-chip implementation offers power/thermal, reliability, and lifecycle advantages not typically found in alternative architectures. The faster processor and 2eSST VMEbus interface (the same as the MVME6100) combine to offer significant performance improvement.
New cost-effective peripherals can be integrated easily using USB and Serial ATA interfaces. SATA represents a significant cost reduction opportunity from older SCSI technology, with generally lower drive pricing for equivalent capacity.
The MVME3100 series continues the direction of providing a migration path from Emerson’s embedded controllers such as the MVME16x, MVME17x, MVME2300/MVME2400, and from Emerson SBCs such as the MVME2600/2700 to a single platform. The MVME3100 series, like the MVME5100, MVME5500, and MVME6100 series, merged the best features of Emerson’s embedded controllers and SBCs enabling OEMs to support varying I/O requirements with the same base platform, simplifying part number maintenance, technical expertise requirements, and sparing. The MVME3100 series offers customers an alternate migration path from the 68K, MVME2100, MVME2300, MVME2400, MVME2600, MVME2700, and MVME5100 boards to allow them to take advantage of features such as the integrated MPC8540 SoC processor , DDR memory, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X, USB, SATA, and 2eSST.PCI EXPANSION The MVME3100 has a 32/64-bit, 33 MHz PCI connection to support PCI expansion carriers such as the Emerson PMCspan.
TRANSITION MODULES The MVME721 transition module provides industry-standard connector access to one 10/100/1000BaseTx port. All of these are via RJ45 connectors. The MVME721 RTM is designed to directly connect to the VME backplane in chassis’ with an 80mm deep rear-transition area.
PROCESSOR
- Microprocessor: Freescale MPC8540 PowerQUICC III – PowerPC e500 core
- Clock Frequency: 667 or 833 MHz
- On-chip L1 Cache (I/D): 32K/32K
- On-chip L2 Cache: 256KB look-aside
SYSTEM CONTROLLER
- Integrated within MPC8540
MAIN MEMORY
- Type: Double data rate (DDR1) ECC SDRAM
- Speed: DDR333 (166 MHz)
- Capacity: Up to 512MB SO-DIMM
- Configurations: One single-bank module; 256MB or 512MB
FLASH MEMORY
- Type: Flash, on-board programmable
- Capacity: 64MB or 128MB soldered flash options
- Write Protection: Hardware via switch, software via register or sector lock
NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
- Type: SEEPROM, on-board programmable
- Capacity: 128KB (available for users), 8KB base- board Vital Product Data (VPD)
VMEBUS INTERFACE
- Compliance: ANSI/VITA 1-1994 VME64 (IEEE STD 1014), ANSI/VITA 1.1-1997 VME64 Extensions, VITA
1.5-199x 2eSST
- Controller: Tundra Tsi148 PCI-X to VMEbus bridge with support for VME64 and 2eSST protocols
- DTB Master: A16, A24, A32, A64; D08-D64, SCT, BLT, MBLT, 2eVME, 2eSST
- DTB Slave: A16, A24, A32, A64; D08-D64, SCT, BLT, MBLT, 2eVME, 2eSST, UAT
- Arbiter: RR/PRI
- Interrupt Handler/Generator: IRQ 1-7/Any one of seven IRQs
- System Controller: Yes, switchable or auto detect
- Location Monitor: Two, LMA32