The
PrPMC750 Processor PCI Mezzanine Card (PrPMC) creates a powerful new
"macro component" that helps enable faster time to market,
increases performance, and offers OEMs a standard module to easily
customize and upgrade their designs.
Traditionally,
embedded computing architectures plug small mezzanine boards that
hold specialized I/O interfaces into a motherboard or baseboard in
order to adapt to the needs of a particular application. Today,
complex applications require a reverse approach that places the
microprocessor on the mezzanine card and all of the I/O interfaces
on the baseboard. This simplifies product development and helps
speed time to market by enabling OEMs to concentrate on designing
and debugging their custom 33 MHz PCI logic, rather than devoting
resources to designing and debugging high-speed memory, cache
interfaces, and 350 MHz microprocessor logic.
The
PrPMC750 can serve as the primary- or host-microprocessor, which is
connected to a baseboard full of PCI-based I/O interfaces. The
PrPMC750, however, can also serve as an additional- or
slave-microprocessor, creating a loosely coupled multiprocessing
system. This new approach significantly expands design options for a
broad range of applications.
The
PrPMC750 provides an MPC750 class microprocessor, L2 cache, ECC
memory, Flash, timers and a debug port all on the familiar
single-wide standard height PMC.