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single board computers
GE Intelligent Platforms specializes in the design and manufacture
of single board computers (SBCs) tailored to meet the computing and
ruggedization needs of the customer. With a wide range of form factors,
processor speeds, memory configurations, I/O options and five levels
of ruggedization, our line of COTS-based SBCs provide tremendous
computing flexibility with considerably lowered program risk.
We recently announced a new line of SBC products based on the 2nd generation
Intel
®
Core i7
™
processors. These new dual- or quad-core processors effectively
double the computing capabilities of the previous generation of Core i7 proces-
sors, along with the addition of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) technology.
AVX doubles the processor’s vector engine from 128 to 256 bits for a tremendous
improvement in floating point processing. Radar, sonar, intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance, and signal processing will be some of the military and aero-
space applications to benefit most from the addition of AVX to these Intel flagship
processors. Current GE products include the VPXcel3 SBC324 and VPXcel6 SBC624
in 3U and 6U VPX form factors, respectively, the XCR14 rugged 6U CPCI SBC, and the
XVR14 rugged 6U VME SBC. All of these SBCs bear dual- or quad-core 2nd genera-
tion Core i7 processors running at up to 2.5 GHz.
In parallel, we also announced a new line of SBC products based on Freescale
™
Semiconductor’s QorIQ 45nm communications and computing platforms designed
for high performance in a low-power envelope. Our PPC9B and IMP3A SBCs use
the dual-core P2020 processor running at 1.2 GHz and are specifically targeted
at SWaP-constrained applications. Our PPC10A, SBC312 and SBC612 products are
based on the QorIQ P4080 processor which has eight Power Architecture
™
e500mc
cores running at 1.5 GHz and are targeted at high-performance applications where
benefits can be achieved by software parallelism across the available cores. The
eight-core QorIQ offer the ability to compress many existing multi-board applica-
tions into one or two multi-core SBCs to achieve considerable SWaP advantages.
photo courtesy of u.s. navy »
phan steven g. crawford, usn