ADI Engineering Announces Universal CompactPCI Hot Swap CPU Module Based on the Intel XScale Microarchitecture.Business Editors, High Tech Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2002 ADI Engineering, Inc. today announced the availability of the Quinque Model X-2-PMC-SER-E-01 Universal CompactPCI Hot Swap CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. platform and evaluation kit based on the Intel(R) XScale(TM) microarchitecture. Quinque leverages the high performance, low power consumption, and rich feature set of the Intel(R) XScale(TM) microarchitecture in a universal CompactPCI platform that maintains full software compatibility with ADI Engineering's BRH BRH - Branch and Hang evaluation platform. ADI Engineering will produce, sell, and support Quinque. Configurable big-endian and little-endian mode support, industry-leading XScale(TM) memory bandwidth, dual on-board Ethernet ports, dual 64-bit 66 MHz PMC (1) See Portable Media Center. (2) (PCI Mezzanine Card) A PCI-based mezzanine card that is widely adapted to VMEbus, CompactPCI and PCI cards. expansion slots and a universal CompactPCI hot swap interface make Quinque well suited for a wide range of performance-intensive data communications, networking, and embedded computing applications. Quinque allows system designers to access the full performance potential of XScale(TM) while minimizing power consumption and time to market. Quinque is designed to optimize both computational throughput and data movement capacity and concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking through a high-bandwidth, balanced dataflow architecture. The primary CompactPCI interface, the two 64-bit PMC expansion slots, and the on-board PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). I/O bus and Ethernet MACs are interconnected with two PCI-PCI bridges having multiple read and write queues and DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. controllers, enabling Quinque to simultaneously service up to three concurrent PCI transactions. The Primary CompactPCI interface is universal, automatically configuring itself for either the CompactPCI System or Peripheral slots, allowing Quinque to be applied to the full spectrum of CompactPCI applications. ADI Engineering's XScale(TM) optimized SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. controller provides sustained memory bandwidth of 800 MB/s, up to 10x higher than previous XScale(TM) design approaches. By providing a compatible big-endian XScale(TM) application environment, Quinque is ideally suited to provide adjunct management and control plane processing in systems utilizing the Intel(R) IXP (1) (Internet EXchange Processor) See IXA. (2) (Internet eXchange Point) A public junction point on the Internet that provides an on-ramp to the Internet as well as a location for carriers to exchange traffic. 425, IXP2400, and IXP2800 network processors. Big endian mode capability also makes the Quinque useful as a software-compatible early development platform for the Intel(R) IXP425, IXP2400, or IXP2800. Quinque is compliant with the PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. CompactPCI Specification 2.0 R3.0, CompactPCI Host Swap Specification 2.1 R2.0, and the PMC on CompactPCI Specification 2.3 R1.0 for J3/J4 Connections. Software and tools support for Quinque includes TimeSys Linux SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). , VxWorks(R), from WindRiver Systems, the ARM(R) RealView Developer Kit, the Arriba ar·ri·ba interj. Used as an exclamation of pleasure, approval, or elation. [Spanish, from Latin ad r ! IDE from Viosoft, and the MAJIC-MX JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group emulator from Embedded Performance, Inc. "Quinque leverages the high performance, low power consumption, and wide industry acceptance of the Intel(R) XScale(TM) microarchitecture and our BRH reference design into a universal CompactPCI OEM product for demanding communications and networking applications," said Steve Yates, President of ADI Engineering. "ADI Engineering has been able to create a highly flexible OEM platform that aggressively applies the high performance and low power of the Intel(R) XScale(TM) microarchitecture." Pricing for Quinque starts at $995 each in OEM quantities. ADI also offers Quinque development kits, which include a royalty-free license to the Quinque design IP, hardware and software engineering support services, and optionally the ARM(R) RealView Development Kit and the TimeSys Linux SDK. Please contact ADI Engineering for additional information. About ADI Engineering Inc. ADI Engineering Inc. is a supplier of high-performance OEM platforms, reference designs, evaluation platforms, and custom design services supporting the Intel(R) XScale(TM) microarchitecture and the Intel(R) IXA(TM) architecture. Founded in 1990, ADI also offers rapid-deployment custom development of advanced data communications, embedded computing, broadband wireless, digital video, and network security products. ADI Engineering is an authorized third-party design partner for a number of semiconductor OEMs including Intel, Xilinx, Texas Instruments, and Motorola and a value-added reseller for ARM and TimeSys. ADI Engineering's headquarters are located in Charlottesville, VA. For more information, please visit http://www.adiengineering.com/, contact Sales at +1-434-978-2888, Email: mailto: info@adiengineering.com, or Fax +1-434-978-1803. Intel, XScale and 80200 are trademarks of Intel Corporation. ARM is a trademark of ARM, Ltd. VxWorks is a trademark of WindRiver Systems, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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