BalanCEd PErforManCE

The MVME3100 series provides more than just faster VMEbus transfer rates; it provides balanced perfor

mance from the processor, memory subsystem, localbuses and I/O subsystems.

This coupled with a wealth of I/O interfaces make the MVME3100 series ideal for

use as an application-specific compute blade, or an intelligent I/O blade/carrier. 

The Freescale MPC8540 system-on-chip (SoC) processor, running at speeds up

to 833 MHz, is well-suited for I/O and data-intensive applications.

The integrated SoC design creates an I/O intensive state-of-the-art package that combines a

low power processing core and on-chip L2 cache with integrated controllers for memory,

PCI-X, DMA ,Ethernet and local device I/O. 

The on-chip PCI-X bus and a 166 MHz DDR memory bus are well matched to

the processor. To ensure that the MVME3100 series can handle the

320MB/s data rates of 2eSST, the Tsi148 VMEbus interface chip is directly connected to

the integrated PCI-X bus at 66 MHz.

A secondary PCI-X bus has dual PMC-X sites—each site supports PMC or

PMC-X cards supporting PCI bus speeds from 33 to100 MHz.

The MVME3100 also offers dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, a 10/100 interface,

USB 2.0. dual Serial ATA ports, and five (5) RS232 serial connections.