Date: 24/09/2010

Freescale Dual-Core QorIQ P2020 processor based single board computer

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has made available the XPedite5570, an air- or conduction-cooled 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC), based on Freescale Semiconductor's dual-core QorIQ P2020 processor. The XPedite5570 is targeted for size, weight, and power (SWaP) constrained military applications. Consuming less than 20 watts, the XPedite5570 can host nearly any high-performance, FPGA-based, A/D or camera-interfaced XMC module for UAV surveillance applications, says Extreme Engineering

The XPedite5570 features include:
Freescale QorIQ P2020 processor with two 1.2-GHz Power Architecture® e500 cores
Up to 4 GB of DDR3-800 ECC SDRAM
Up to 16 GB of NAND flash and 256 MB of redundant NOR flash
Two x4 PCI Express VPX data-plane links to the backplane
Two 1000BASE-X Gigabit Ethernet VPX control-plane links to the backplane
Two optional 1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet links to the backplane
One XMC/PrPMC site
Two serial ports
One USB port
Operating system support:
Green Hills INTEGRITY Board Support Package (BSP)
Wind River VxWorks BSP
Linux BSP

"Extreme Engineering Solutions has shown a strong commitment to our QorIQ products with P2020- and P4080-based XMC, CompactPCI, and VPX boards with more announcements expected from X-ES in the near future," stated Glenn Beck, Aerospace and Defense Segment Marketing Manager at Freescale Semiconductor. "When a partner like X-ES supports the QorIQ design-in process by making COTS products available to the market so quickly, our joint customers are the real winners."

"The dual-core performance of the P2020 processor, coupled with its low power consumption, make it a great fit for SWaP-constrained applications, such as UAV video-, laser-, and IR-based reconnaissance," said Aaron Lindner, Engineering Manager for X-ES. "Being able to provide a P2020-based 3U VPX SBC with a hosted XMC that dissipates only 25 to 35 watts enables our customers to build very small, functionally-dense systems."