Extreme Engineering is shipping an AMC (advanced mezzanine card) version of its dual-G5 PowerPC board. The XPedite6240 sports dual Freescale MPC7448 processors, comes with Linux, and can bolster AdvancedTCA blade or MicroTCA system performance for telecom and HPC (high-performance computing) applications.

(Click for larger view of XPedite6240 AMC card)

Extreme earlier offered a PMC (processor mezzanine card) version of the board.

As with the PMC version, up to four AMC modules can be installed in a single AdvancedTCA slot. This would add eight processors, a substantial performance upgrade, according to the company.

Additionally, the AMC version can be plugged directly into MicroTCA backplanes, using either a PCI Express or Gigabit Ethernet backplane connection. MicroTCA is a relatively new specification within the AdvancedTCA (ATCA) standard, which is maintained by PICMG.

Extreme lists key XPedite6240 features as follows:

• Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) module form factor
• Dual Freescale MPC7448 processors containing PowerPC cores and AltiVec technology to 1.7GHz
• Single Freescale MPC7448 to 1.4GHz, as a build option
• Marvell Discovery III MV64460 System Controller
• 1GB of DDR SDRAM
• 128MB flash memory
• Dual gigabit Ethernet ports
• Serial port, RTC, and NVRAM
• Optional PCI Express (AMC.1 lanes 4-7) or Ethernet (AMC.2 lanes 0, 1) AMC transport
• Available with BSPs (board support packages) for Linux, Integrity, QNX, and VxWorks

Availability

The XPedite6240 is available immediately, priced at $3,295 in single quantities, according to the company.

 
This article was originally published on LinuxDevices.com and has been donated to the open source community by QuinStreet Inc. Please visit LinuxToday.com for up-to-date news and articles about Linux and open source.