VMETRO Building VPX Momentum

HOUSTON--(Business Wire)--In December 2007, VMETRO continued to build momentum in its VPX
(VITA 46) product line by shipping two new products, the MM-1200, an
intelligent 6U XMC/PMC carrier, and VCX301, a 3U XMC carrier, to
customers. These shipments demonstrate VMETRO's commitment to provide
innovative embedded computing solutions using high-speed serial
interconnects including VXS (VITA 41) and VPX (VITA 46) for use in
development and deployed systems. The MM-1200 and VCX301 are suited
for use in deployed signal processing systems such as electronic
warfare (EW) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
applications.

Based on the 6U VPX form factor, the MM-1200 is an Intelligent
XMC/PMC Carrier. This board enables onboard devices including the
XMC/PMC sites, large SDRAM memories and the onboard CoSine
System-on-Chip to directly interface with a Serial RapidIO based
fabric. The CoSine System-on-Chip are fully functional computers with
dual embedded PowerPC 405GPs for a total of 4 embedded PowerPC
processors. The MM-1200 design was based on VMETRO's existing VPX
board, the MM-1600, which has two additional large Xilinx(R)
Virtex(TM)-4 FPGAs.

For 3U VPX, the VCX301 XMC carrier routes data up to 5GB/s to the
VPX backplane. The VCX301 supports 2 x4 full duplex links from the XMC
P15 to VPX P1 connectors and 4 x4 full duplex links from the XMC P16
to VPX P2 connectors. The VCX301 also routes eight full duplex
differential pairs and eight single-ended signals from the PMC P14 to
the VPX P2 connector. For 3U VPX development programs, the VCX301
provides a convenient way to integrate existing XMC modules into the
system.

Both products are available as air or conduction-cooled rugged
versions.

About VMETRO

VMETRO (OSE:VME) provide integrators of high-end embedded computer
systems with products and services from development through
deployment, with the highest levels of performance, innovation and
reliability. Main product areas include 1) Embedded Computing -
high-performance I/O and Digital Signal Processing boards and systems
based on FPGAs and PowerPCs, 2) Data Recording and Rugged Storage -
high-performance long endurance Recording / Playback systems and
Rugged Storage solutions, and 3) Bus and Protocol Analyzers - advanced
tools used to debug, optimize, validate and test computer based
systems. All products are based on open standards like VME/VXS and
PCI/cPCI/PMC/XMC, with strong focus on high-speed serial interconnects
such as Fibre Channel, Serial FPDP, Aurora and PCI Express.

For more information, please visit www.vmetro.com.

VMETRO
In the US:
Marketing Manager
Nicole Renfro, 281-584-0728 ext. 27
Fax: 281-584-9034
nrenfro@vmetro.com
www.vmetro.com

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