Formation PMC Technology chosen by Motorola Computer Group.MOORESTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 1996--Formation Inc. announced Thursday that Motorola Computer Group (MCG), headquartered in Tempe, Ariz. has placed significant orders for delivery of its fpm360-series products over the next 15 months. The four-, six- and eight-port PCI mezzanine cards provide wide-area network (WAN) connection for Motorola's MVME MVME Muzzle Velocity Measuring Equipment MVME Motorola Versa Module Eurocard 1600 and MVME 1300 VME boards. The program supports MCG's PowerPC(TM) microprocessor-based servers designed for telecommunications applications. Bob Rosenbaum, Formation director of sales, said, "This is a significant milestone. Motorola first chose Formation to supply high-speed serial interface The High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) is a differential ECL serial interface standard developed by Cisco Systems and T3plus Networking primarily for use in WAN router connections. It is capable of speeds up to 52 Mbit/s with cables up to 50 feet in length. cards in the 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. format in 1995. Since then our organizations have worked closely together to integrate the fpm360 family with Motorola's MVME 1600 and MVME 1300 series VMEbus cards." The Formation fpm360-series PCI mezzanine cards contain Motorola's MC68360 microprocessor, an AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) S5933 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Interface chip, 128KB of Flash, 1MB of DRAM, 256 Bytes of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. and EIA-232 drivers and receivers providing baud rates up to 2 Mbps. The interface ports can support all protocols built-into the MC68360, as well as those downloaded in microcode. Rosenbaum concluded, "This is the first production shipment of product for what promises to be a very successful program." "The Formation fpm360 modules provide Motorola customers with an excellent controller for Wide Area Network applications," said Jerry Gipper, director of marketing, Embedded Technologies, Motorola Computer Group. "This allows Motorola Computer Group to bundle the fpm360s with the MVME 1300 and MVME 1600 to give our customers a complete VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. solution." Formation Inc., established in 1970, is a global leader in network systems technology. The company develops and manufactures intelligent connections across a wide variety of network topologies and protocols. Products for avionics and air traffic control applications include gateways, front end communications processors, commercial and custom communications boards and software for open systems connectivity; Token-Ring and Fiber Distributed Data Interface See FDDI. Fiber Distributed Data Interface - (FDDI) A 100 Mbit/s ANSI standard local area network architecture, defined in X3T9.5. The underlying medium is optical fibre (though it can be copper cable, in which case it may be called CDDI) and the topology is a (FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) Often pronounced "fiddy," it was a LAN and MAN access method that had its heyday in the mid-1990s. FDDI was an ANSI standard token passing network that transmitted 100 Mbps over optical fiber up to 10 kilometers. ) boards for local area networks (LANs); and products used in wide area network (WANs). Formation Inc. is also a recognized industry leader in the supply of high performance disk storage and state-of-the-art RAID subsystems for the workstation/server, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 and midrange markets. The company develops and manufactures or licenses storage products for large OEMs and distribution channels. Formation provides storage subsystems and input/output controllers for standard proprietary system interfaces. The company is headquartered in Moorestown. The Motorola Computer Group (MCG) is a worldwide hardware and software platform supplier to companies that provide computer solutions. MCG is comprised of three areas of focus: embedded technologies, technical OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and systems and commercial systems. MCG's strategy is to deliver high-performance PowerPC(TM) platforms and solutions for Windows NT(TM), Mac(TM) OS AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (R) and Solaris operating systems for targeted areas such as graphics-intensive applications, multimedia and the Internet. MCG corporate headquarters, along with regional headquarters for Latin America, are located in Tempe. Regional European headquarters are located in Maidenhead, United Kingdom and Hamburg, Germany. European channel headquarters are located in Paris. Headquarters for MCG's Asia Pacific region are located in Hong Kong. Information about MCG's products is available on the World Wide Web at the location http://www.mot.com/computer/. Motorola Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) is one of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems, components and services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Motorola semiconductors power communication devices, computers and millions of other products. Motorola's 1995 sales were $27 billion. -0- Motorola and the Motorola logo are registered trademarks of Motorola Inc. PowerPC, PowerPC 603, PowerPC 603e, PowerPC 604 are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. and are used by Motorola Inc. under license from International Business Machines Corp. AIX is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. Mac OS is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. -0- For additional information on Formation products, contact: Formation Inc. Sales & Marketing, 121 Whittendale Drive, Moorestown, N.J. 08057, 609/234-5020, toll free in the U.S. and Canada at 800/220-1209, fax at 609/234-5242 and on the World Wide Web at http://www.formation.com. CONTACT: Formation Inc., Moorestown David Reilly, 609/234-5020 x 3063 or 800/220-1209 |
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