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Long Beach, Calif. - Pentek Inc. introduced an octal DSP board based on the Texas Instruments TMS320C6203 DSP.

By Gary A. Mintchell, senior editor January 23, 2002

Long Beach, Calif. Pentek Inc. introduced an octal DSP board based on the Texas Instruments TMS320C6203 DSP. The 6U VME COTS board features both a PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) and VIM (Velocity Interface Mezzanine) interface. The VIM mezzanine eliminates data flow bottlenecks by delivering 1,200 Mbytes/sec of I/O data directly to the processors to take maximum advantage of the 19,200 MIPS peak processing power of the eight C6203 DSPs.

Model 4293 is supported by a software development environment including Pentek’s ReadyFlow Board Support Libraries and SwiftNet plug-in to TI’s Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Other third-party and Pentek software development tools are available for a variety of workstations and embedded processor platforms running Windows 98/2000/NT, Linux, Solaris, and VxWorks.

SBS Technologies introduced CT8, a high-performance 6U CompactPCI (CPCI) single board computer supporting full hot swap capability. It supports system and non-system slot functionality and is configured with an integrated Mobile Intel Pentium III Processor-M (800MHz and higher), which offers low power consumption and eliminates the need for on-board ventilation.

Adhering to the PICMG 2.16 specification, the CT8 supports the 64-bit/66MHz CompactPCI bus and includes two on-board Gigabit Ethernet channels. A high level of functional integration (VGA/TFT, serial or parallel interfaces, hard disk or flash drive, CompactFlash, intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) controller, etc.) within a single slot gives users the freedom to use the PMC interface required by the application. The CT8 is also optionally available for the extended temperature range of -40°C to +50°C.