General Micro Systems Inc., (GMS) in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., is offering a dual-processor single-board computer for aerospace and military applications that incorporates a dual independent processor architecture. The V469 PATRIOT uses two independent M-760 Pentium-M processors that are decoupled and offer 100 percent redundancy including power, cooling, and I/O. Each half, operating at 2 GHz with 2 megabytes of L2 cache and 533 MHz FSB, has its own Fibre Channel connection with boot capability. The two halves communicate via a direct Gigabit Ethernet link. Independent high-speed communication by either half to the rest of the system or to several PATRIOTs is via independent Gigabit Ethernet facilities through the VITA 41.3 VXS connector. Other PATRIOT features on each side include up to 8 gigabytes of 266 MHz RDDR memory with ECC configured in 128-bit wide, compared to the standard 64-bit wide DDR 200 MHz of other Pentium-M designs. This unique memory design supports fast DMA operations between the system memory and the board’s high-speed I/O devices. Standard I/O functions on each side of PATRIOT are dual Gigabit Ethernet ports with copper or Fibre interface; 2 Gigabit, full duplex Fibre Channel with 2 megabytes of SRAM buffer and Flash BIOS to support boot capabilities; quad USB 2.0 dual serial ports; and XVGA video, UDMA IDE interface. For more information contact GMS online at www.gms4sbc.com.
