CHELMSFORD, Mass., 14 May 2008. Officials at Sky Computers Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., are introducing the LightningBolt embedded computer that offers scalability, reliability, and price/performance for demanding military and aerospace applications.
The 6U VME single-board computer, which will be available this summer, is compatible with Sky's previous SKYbolt family of embedded computers. Users can upgrade to the LightningBolt family without re-writing software.
The LightningBolt single-board computer uses the 1.2 GHz PowerPC MPC 7448 microprocessor and the ANSI/VITA standard SKYchannel interconnect fabric. The SKYvec software development environment provides tools for complex multiprocessor programming.
LightningBolt offers 38.4 billion floating point operations per second per 6U VME slot; boots in 10 seconds for startup and initialization; offers as many as 64 processors per system; and as much as 2 gigabytes of SDRAM solid-state memory per 6U module.
For more information contact Sky Computers online at www.skycomputers.com.
