Emerson MVME3100 Series VMEbus Single-Board Computer Backward Compatibility

Backward Compatibility

The MVME3100 series continues the direction of providing a migration path

from Emerson’s embed ded controllers such as the MVME16x, MVME17x,

MVME2300/MVME2400. and from Emerson SBCs such as the

MVME2600/2700 to a single platform. The MVME3100 series, like the MVME5100.

and MVME6100 series, merged the best features of Emerson’s embedded

controllers and SBCs enabling OEMs to support varying I/O requirements with

the same base platform, simplifying part number maintenance,

technical expertise requirements, and sparing.

The MVME3100 series offers customers an alternate migration path from the 68K, MVME2100.

MVME2300.MVME2400. MVME2600. MVME2700. and MVME5100 boards to 

allow them to take advantage of features such as the integrated MPC8540 SoC processor ,

DDR memory, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X, USB, SATA,and 2eSST.

PCI ExPanSIon

The MVME3100 has a 32/64-bit, 33 MHz PCI connection to support PCI

expansion carriers such as the Emerson PMCspan.

TranSITIon ModulES

The MVME721 transition module provides industry standard connector

access to one 10/100/1000BaseTx port. All of these are via RJ45 connectors.

The MVME721 RTM is designed to directly connect to the VME backplane

in chassis’ with an 80mm deep rear-transition area.

Software Support

fIrMwarE MonITor

The MVME3100 firmware (known as MOTLoad) is resident in the MVME3100

flash and provides power on self-test initialization and operating system

booting capabilities. In addition, it provides a debug ger interface similar

to the time proven “BUG” interface on previous VMEbus boards from Emerson.

oPEraTIng SySTEMS and KErnElS

The MVME3100 series supports booting a variety of operating systems including

a complete range of real time operating systems and kernels.

A VxWorks board support package, LynxOS board support package and

Linux support will be available for the MVME3100 series.