Force Unveils PowerPC Boards For VME, CompactPCI

Force Computers Inc. has unveiled the fastest PowerPC based single-board computers (SBCs) available on the market - the PowerCoreCPCI-6750 for CompactPCI and the PowerCore-6750 for VMEbus environments.

The newest Force platforms feature a next-generation PowerPC 750 processor built with an advanced copper-based CMOS process technology, which both drives up the processor's clock speed to an unprecedented 400 MHz and drives down power consumption. They are also based on Force's core architecture, which maintains full software compatibility with the entire PowerCore product line.

In the telecom and data comm segments, a blazing clock rate is vital for meeting real-time processing requirements in demanding applications such as wireless infrastructure, including base-station controllers and base-transceiver stations, and high- performance data-packet switches. The same real-time processing capability is just as important for robotics, test equipment, and other industrial control systems.

Low power consumption - and therefore low heat dissipation - is equally critical in these applications for enhancing system reliability. Plus, low heat dissipation eliminates the need for large, expensive fan units.

Both the PowerCoreCPCI-6750 for CompactPCI and the PowerCore-6750 for VME environments offer up to 256 Mbytes of synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) - twice as much SDRAM as competitive products - and support the fast memory access requirements of real-time embedded computing applications. The CompactPCI board has been compliant to the PICMG "hot-swap" specification since its introduction.