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Embedded Planet's SCOPE-Compliant Boards Accelerate Development of Carrier Grade Base Platforms
The EP8548A and EP8641A Are Designed Specifically for a Broad Range of Demanding Telecommunications Applications
| Source: Embedded Planet
CLEVELAND, OH--(Marketwire - May 19, 2008) - Embedded Planet, a leader in computer and
embedded systems solutions (www.embeddedplanet.com) today announced the
availability of two invaluable SCOPE-compliant boards that are ideal for a
broad range of demanding applications, including wireless base stations,
media gateways, enterprise network access systems, test and measurement
systems, and server blades. The EP8548A and EP8641A help meet the
important goal of accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base
platforms for service provider applications.
"These market-leading solutions give design engineers the option to use
PCIe-only, Serial RapidIO (SRIO)-only, or SCOPE compliant PCIe and SRIO,"
said Mark Lowdermilk, president of Embedded Planet. "This flexibility
reduces development costs and decreases cycle times by ensuring common
building blocks are available as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
solutions."
The EP8548A is powered by a Freescale MPC8548 PowerQUICC III processor and
the EP8641A by a Freescale MPC8641D dual-core PowerPC processor. Both
SCOPE-compliant boards include Linux, Wind River VxWorks and Green Hills
INTEGRITY operating support. These highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC)
platforms include PowerPC cores, an integrated security engine, integrated
PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, and Gigabit Ethernet controllers, and an
integrated DDR2 memory interface, improving performance, simplifying board
design, lowering power consumption, and reducing cost.
"The SCOPE-compliant boards from Embedded Planet, both the Ep8548A & the
EP8461A, bring flexibility to the Service Providers and their embedded
Proprietary systems," said Ernie Bergstrom Crystal Cube Consulting's VP
Research & Chief Analyst.
In addition to their AMC configuration, both boards can operate as
stand-alone modules and boot from on board flash allowing for rapid
application development outside of the integrated ATCA or MicroTCA
environment.
For fabric connectivity the both the EP8548A and the EP8641A offer extreme
flexibility, while maintaining standards compliance. All versions of the
boards support gigabit Ethernet on AMC channels 0 an 1, compliant with
AMC.2, Type E2). Separate versions of the board are available in one of the
following configurations: Serial RapidIO on AMC channels 4-7, PCI Express
on AMC channels 4-11, or SCOPE-Compliant PCI Express on channels 4-7 and
Serial RapidIO on channels 8-11.
Availability
The SCOPE-compliant EP8548A and EP8641A are available immediately from
Embedded Planet. For information, visit
www.embeddedplanet.com/products/ep8548amc.asp and
www.embeddedplanet.com/products/ep8641a.asp.
About Embedded Planet
Embedded Planet is the pioneer of the Design, Develop, Deploy process for
embedded systems engineering that allows designers to take advantage of
production-tested, reusable product designs in all phases of system
development, significantly reducing time to market, project risks, and
development costs. The company offers integrated single board computer and
embedded hardware, software and systems solutions including standard off
the shelf single board computer products, embedded operating systems, and
full custom design and intellectual property solutions. Embedded Planet's
customers are comprised of market leaders who rely on the company to
provide a wide range of form factors including: Advanced Mezzanine Cards
(AMC) for use in AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and MicroTCA systems, PrPMC cards for
use in CompactPCI systems, PC-104, PCI-104, and Computer-on-Module (COMs).
Additional information about Embedded Planet can be found at
www.embeddedplanet.com.