Introduction - GE SBC330 3U VPX Hardware Reference Manual

1 • Introduction
8 SBC330 3U VPX Single Board Computer
The SBC330 is a 3U VPX Single Board Computer, and is part of GE Intelligent
Platforms' VPXtreme3 range of products. It uses the Freescale MPC8641D dual‐
core Integrated Host Processor, which contains two e600 PowerPC processing
cores running at 1.0 to 1.5 GHz with dual DDR2 memory controllers, serial fabric
and I/O interfaces. The SBC330 offers up to 2 GBytes of DDR2 SDRAM with ECC,
up to 256 MBytes of Flash memory, two Gigabit Ethernet channels, on‐board
serial communications (RS232), four USB2 ports, two SATA‐2.0 ports and two
independent PCI Express links routed to the VPX backplane: a direct 8‐lane port
for extreme graphics applications, and a 4‐lane port routed via an on‐board PCIe
switch.
The MPC8641D is connected to all on‐board PCI devices using PCI Express. This
is a high‐speed serial interconnect running at 2.5 Gbits/second, providing a total
bandwidth of 1 GBytes/second to and from the processor, through a non‐blocking
switch architecture. PCI Express is software compatible with PCI and bridges are
used where connection to PCI or PCI‐X components is required.
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Publication No. SBC330-0HH/3