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Backward Compatibility
The MVME7100 series continues the direction of
providing a migration path from Emerson’s embedded
controllers such as the MVME16x, MVME17x,
MVME2300/MVME2400, and from Emerson SBCs
such as the MVME2600/2700 to a single platform. The
MVME7100 series, like the MVME3100, MVME5100,
MVME5500, 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 MVME7100 series offers customers an alternate
migration path from the MVME2100, MVME2300,
MVME2400, MVME2600, MVME2700, MVME3100,
MVME5100, MVME5500 and MVME6100 boards to
allow them to take advantage of features such as the
integrated MPC864xD SoC processor, DDR2 memory,
Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-X, PCI Express, USB, and 2eSST.
PCI EXPANSION
The MVME7100 has an 8x PCI Express connection to
support PCI Express expansion carriers such as the
Emerson XMCspan.
TRANSITION MODULES
The MVME7216E transition module provides industry-
standard connector access to two 10/100/1000BaseTX
ports, and four asynchronous serial ports congured
as RS-232 DTE. All of these are via RJ-45 connectors.
The MVME7216E RTM is designed to directly connect
to the VME backplane in chassis’ with an 80mm deep
rear-transition area.
Software Support
FIRMWARE MONITOR
The MVME7100 rmware (known as MOTLoad) is
resident in the MVME7100 ash and provides power-on
self-test, initialization and operating system booting
capabilities. In addition, it provides a debugger
interface similar to the time proven “BUG” interface
on previous VMEbus boards from Emerson.
OPERATING SYSTEMS AND KERNELS
The MVME7100 series supports booting a variety
of operating systems including a complete range of
real-time operating systems and kernels. Emerson
Network Power Embedded Computing Linux
(2.6.25 kernel) is available now. VxWorks BSPs (5.5.1
AMP, 6.6 AMP & 6.6 SMP) are provided and supported
by Wind River Systems. Also in development are Linux
kernels from Sysgo, Timesys and LynuxWorks.
Specications
PROCESSOR
Microprocessor: Freescale MPC864xD with dual
c
PowerPC e600 cores
Clock Frequency: 1.06 or 1.3 GHz c
On-chip L1 Cache (I/D): 32K/32K per core c
On-chip L2 Cache: 1MB per core c
SYSTEM CONTROLLER
Integrated within MPC864xD
MAIN MEMORY
Type: Double data rate (DDR2) SDRAM
Speed: DDR2-533
Capacity: 1GB or 2GB
Conguration: Dual memory controller
FLASH MEMORY
Type: NOR ash, on-board programmable
Capacity: 128MB c
Write Protection: Hardware via switch, software c
via register or sector lock
Type: NAND ash, on-board programmable
Capacity: 4GB or 8GB c
Write Protection: Software via register c
Supported by YAFFS (Linux) or Datalight FlashFX c
Pro (VxWorks) under separate license
NON-VOLATILE MEMORY
Type: SEEPROM, on-board programmable
Capacity: 128KB (available for users), 8KB c
baseboard Vital Product Data (VPD), and two (2)
256B Serial Presence Detect (SPD)
Type: MRAM
Capacity: 512KB
c
VMEBUS INTERFACE
Compliance: ANSI/VITA 1-1994 VME64 (IEEE STD
1014), ANSI/VITA 1.1-1997 VME64 Extensions, VITA
1.5-199x 2eSST
Controller: Tundra Tsi148 PCI-X to VMEbus bridge
with support for VME64 and 2eSST protocols