According to Peter Cavill, general manager, military & aerospace products at GE Fanuc, for the more demanding signal processing applications, many customers are turning to FPGA technology because of its combination of flexibility and performance.

“Our aim with the XMCV5 card is to give customers the flexibility to strike the right balance between hardware-oriented FPGA-based computing and software-based application code running on either PowerPC- or Intel-based platforms as part of a complete solution based on our range of rugged single board computers, carrier cards, multiprocessors and sensor I/O products,” said Cavill.

Available in five ruggedisation levels – allowing for deployment in the harshest environments – the XMCV5 is the first rugged XMC to harness the power and flexibility of all three Virtex-5 FPGA families with build options for the Virtex-5 FX100T, SX95T and Virtex-5 LX110T enabling customers to field the right solution with this leading edge COTS platform.

It can be mounted on a broad range of GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms 3U and 6U single board computers (SBCs), including the VMEbus PPC9A and VPX SBCs such as SBC610 and SBC310.

It is compliant with the VITA-42 XMC mezzanine card base standard, and is available in both VITA 42.3 (PCIe) and VITA 42.2 (Serial RapidIO) configurations.

The XMCV5 is available in a range of configurations for rugged air-cooled systems as well as in conduction-cooled form factors.

See http://www.gefanuc.com