The promise of the VME Renaissance is innovation, performance and investment protection. The MVME6100 series from Motorola delivers on this promise. The innovative design of the MVME6100 provides a high performance platform that allows customers to leverage their investment in their VME infrastructure.

Customers looking for a “technology refresh” for their application, while maintaining backwards compatibility with their existing VMEbus infrastructure, can upgrade to the MVME6100 series and take advantage of its enhanced performance features.

The MVME6100 series is designed to meet the needs of OEMs servicing the defense and aerospace, industrial automation and medical imaging market segments.

VMEbus 2eSST Performance The MVME6100 series is the first VMEbus single-board computer (SBC) designed with the Tundra Tsi148™ VMEbus interface chip offering 2eSST VMEbus performance. The 2eSST (two edge source synchronous transfer) protocol causes the VMEbus to run at a practical bandwidth of 320MB/s in most cases. The 2eSST protocol has existed for some time (the draft standard for trial use was published in 1999 and released as an ANSI standard in 2003), but until now, 2eSST boards would not work in a standard VMEbus backplane because the existing VMEbus transceivers could not support the required VMEbus 2eSST signaling speeds. Texas Instruments has developed new VMEbus transceivers that support the VMEbus signal switching speeds required by the 2eSST protocol. The combination of the new Texas Instruments VMEbus transceivers and the Tsi148 VMEbus legacy protocol support allows customers to integrate the MVME6100 series into their existing infrastructure providing backward compatibility and thereby preserving their investment in existing VMEbus boards, backplanes, chassis and software.

Balanced Performance The MVME6100 series provides more than just faster VMEbus transfer rates; it provides balanced performance from the processor, memory subsystem, local buses and I/O subsystems. The processor running at speeds of 1.267 GHz is ideal for data-intensive applications. The state-of-the-art host bridge, with support for a 133 MHz host bus and a 133 MHz DDR memory bus, is well matched to the processor. To ensure that the MVME6100 series can handle the 320MB/s data rates of 2eSST, the Tsi148 VMEbus interface chip is connected to one of the 133 MHz PCI-X buses on the host bridge. The second PCI-X bus has dual PMC-X sites—each site supports PMC or PMC-X cards supporting PCI bus speeds from 33 to 100 MHz. The MVME6100 also offers dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. All of this adds up to a set of well-balanced, high-performance subsystems for unparalleled performance.

MVME6100-0161 1.267 GHz MPC7457 processor, 512MB DDR memory, 128MB Flash, Scanbe handles

MVME6100-0163 1.267 GHz MPC7457 processor, 512MB DDR memory, 128MB Flash, IEEE handles

MVME6100-0171 1.267 GHz MPC7457 processor, 1GB DDR memory, 128MB Flash, Scanbe handles

MVME6100-0173 1.267 GHz MPC7457 processor, 1GB DDR memory, 128MB Flash, IEEE handles