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Motorola VMEbus Single-Board Computer Breaks 300MBps Barrier

Motorola Computer Group, a part of Motorola Inc, announced the availability date of its first masterpiece, part of the VME Renaissance, the MVME6100 single-board computer. Motorola is first to market with a product that takes advantage of a radical new VMEbus to PCI-X bridge, using the VMEbus two-edge source synchronous transfer (2eSST) protocol for significantly faster VMEbus data transfer rates. Transferring more than 300MBps on the VMEbus, (compared with VME64's typical 40MBps transfer rate), the MVME6100 also preserves more than 20 years of VMEbus legacy by remaining compatible with previous generations of VMEbus products and protecting users existing investment in VMEbus technology.

"The MVME6100's innovative design uses carefully chosen technology to give optimum throughput and breakthrough data transfer rates through every part of the system," said Dave Barker, product manager of Motorola Computer Group. "We've balanced the processing, memory, bus and I/O subsystems to dramatically increase performance for VMEbus applications."

Using the Tundra Tsi148 in 2eSST mode, the MVME6100 transfers data across the VMEbus at 320MBps. The VMETRO Vanguard VMEbus 2eSST analyzer was used to measure burst transfer rates of 310MBps and for sustained transfer rates of 300MBps.

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