AMCC PowerPC 460GT Dual Processor Reference Design Kit
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AMCC announced the availability of Arches, an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) form factor dual-processor reference design kit for its Power Architecture 460GT processor. The kit is a key component in the company’s comprehensive strategy to support Advanced TCA. Arches provides developers with options for hardware, software, development tools and connectivity interfaces and it represents the company’s direction to help accelerate time-to-market by creating a healthy product development ecosystem for its AdvancedTCA® customers.
Arches is an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) industry-standard solution supporting systems based on Serial RapidIO (AMC.4), Gigabit Ethernet (AMC.2), and PCI Express (AMC.1) interconnects.
To accelerate customers' development time for AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA™ systems, AMCC's new reference design kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources including: a custom-designed board in the AMC form factor, industry-standard software development tools, open-source middleware for interprocess communications from Enea, a leading RapidIO® network management and diagnostic tool from FETCorp, system-level benchmarks, and a complete hardware/software design package.
Features
The card design includes:
- AMC form factor (180mm x 74mm x 17mm), is a solution developed
- 2 AMCC PowerPC® 460GT processors, each operating at a clock frequency of 1.0GHz
- 1GByte of DDR2 SDRAM, 128MBytes of NOR Flash, 1GByte Micro-SD flash
- 2 serial ports
- 2 10/100/1G Ethernet ports
- 4 10/100/1G Ethernet ports
- x1/x4 Serial RapidIO port
- x1/x4 Serial RapidIO/PCI-Express
- JTAG connector two trace connectors
- Linux® 2.6 kernel and U-Boot boot firmware, along with a file system that incorporates the RapidFET configuration software as well as the open source LINX interprocess communications (IPC) framework developed by Enea, plus a range of AMCC-developed sample applications, benchmarks and utilities
"The Arches reference design kit will enable AMCC's wireless infrastructure customers to accelerate their products' time-to-market and use standard development environments such as ATCA and micro-TCA,” said Robert Applebaum, President of Silicon Turnkey Express. "In addition, we are pleased to announce that the Arches dual-processor card is also available in OEM quantities as a standard product from Silicon Turnkey Express to support lower volume and pilot run requirements.”