Motorola MVME3100 VMEbus Single Board Computers

MVME3100 Single Board Computers (SBCs) Deliver Higher Performance While Protecting Your Investment

The Freescale MPC8540 system-on-chip features a PowerPC® e500

processor core, integrated memory controller, DMA engine, PCI-X interface, Ethernet and local I/O

Two Gigabit Ethernet ports and an additional 10/100BaseTX port

Up to 512MB of DDR333 ECC memory

USB 2.0 and Serial ATA controllers for cost-effective peripheral integration

2eSST VMEbus protocol for interoperability with products such as the MVME6100

Interoperable with products such as the MVME6100 at higher bandwidths

Board software packages supporting VxWorks, LynxOS and Linux

Dual 33/66/100MHz PMC-X sites, expandable with industry-standard modules to support processor

PMC and PMCspan MVME721 Direct Connect Rear Transition Module (RTM) for I/O routing through

the rear of a compact VMEbus chassis Emerson Network Power MVME3100 SBC Helps OEMs of

Industrial, Medical, and Defense/Aerospace VMEbus Platforms Add performance and functionality

to the VMEbus platform to gain a competitive advantage.

All while protecting the underlying investment in VMEbus and related technologies.

Customers can retain their VMEbus infrastructure (chassis, backplanes.),

chassis, backplane, and other VMEbus and PMC boards) while improving performance and

extending lifecycles.

In addition, the extended lifecycle of Emerson's computing products helps reduce development

and support disruptions due to frequent product replacement.

The MVME3100 is one of the first VMEbus products to feature the System-on-Chip MPC8540 processor.

development path for VMEbus customers using previous-generation VMEs, specifically the MPC8240

and similar (MPC603 series) processors.

Processors. System-on-a-chip implementations offer power/heat dissipation, reliability, and lifecycle

benefits that are not typically found

and lifecycle advantages not typically found in other architectures.

The combination of faster processors and the 2eSST VMEbus interface (same as the MVME6100)

provides significant performance improvements.

New cost-effective peripherals can be easily integrated using USB and Serial ATA interfaces.

SATA represents a significant cost reduction opportunity compared to older SCSI technologies,

with hard discs of the same capacity generally being less expensive.

VMEbus 2eSST Performance

The 2eSST protocol delivers up to 320MB/s of usable VMEbus bandwidth, eight times that of VME64.

while maintaining backward compatibility with VME64 and VME32. The latest Texas Instruments

VMEbus transceivers are compatible with the

The combination of the latest Texas Instruments VMEbus transceivers and the legacy protocol

support of the Tundra Tsi148 VMEbus bridge allows customers to integrate the MVME3100 series

into existing infrastructures, providing backward compatibility that protects their investment in

existing VMEbus boards, backplanes, chassis and software.

Balanced performance

The MVME3100 series delivers more than just faster VMEbus transfer rates, it provides balanced

performance across the processor, memory subsystem, local bus and I/O subsystems. 

This, combined with a rich set of I/O interfaces, makes the MVME3100 series ideal for application

-specific compute blades or smart I/O blades/carriers. The Freescale MPC8540 system-on-chip

(SoC) processor runs at speeds up to 833 MHz, making it ideal for I/O and data-intensive

applications. The integrated SoC design creates an I/O-intensive, state-of-the-art package that 

combines a low-power processing core and on-chip L2 cache with integrated controllers for memory,

PCI-X, DMA, Ethernet and local device I/O. The on-chip PCI-X bus and 166 MHz DDR memory bus

are well matched to the processor. To ensure that the MVME3100 series can handle the 320MB/s

data rate of 2eSST, the Tsi148 VMEbus interface chip is directly connected to the integrated PCI-X

bus at 66 MHz. The auxiliary PCI-X bus has two PMC-X bits, each supporting either PMC or PMC-X

cards, and supports PCI bus speeds from 33 to 100 MHz. the MVME3100 also provides dual Gigabit

Ethernet interfaces, a 10/100 interface, USB 2.0. dual serial ATA ports, and five (5) RS232 serial

connections. All of this forms a well-balanced subsystem that delivers unrivalled performance.

Backward Compatibility

The MVME3100 Series continues to provide a pathway for migration from Emerson embedded

controllers such as the MVME16x, MVME17x, MVME2300/MVME2400. and Emerson SBCs such

as the MVME2600/2700. to a single platform. MVME3100 Series The MVME3100 Series, like the

MVME5100. MVME5500. and MVME6100 Series, consolidates Emerson SBCs (such as the

MVME2600/2700) into a single platform, and, like the MVME6100 Series, combines the best

features of Emerson's embedded controllers and SBCs. Like the MVME6100 series, the MVME3100

series combines the best features of Emerson's embedded controllers and SBCs, enabling OEMs to

support different I/O requirements on the same base platform, simplifying part numbering,

maintenance and expertise requirements, and saving costs.

The MVME3100 Series offers customers an alternative migration path from the 68K The MVME3100

Series offers customers an alternative migration path from the 68K, MVME2100. MVME2300 MVME2400.

MVME2600. MVME2700. and MVME5100.

The alternative migration path for the boards allows them to take advantage of features such as the

integrated MPC8540 SoC processor, DDR memory, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X, USB, SATA and 2eSST, and 2eSST.