Motorola MVME3100

	v. 4.2
Architecture:	PowerPC
Processor group:	Freescale MPC8548, MPC8560 PowerQUICC III
Markets:	industrial, medical, military and aerospace
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The MVME3100 is Motorola's second VMEbus single-board computer (SBC) designed with the Tundra Tsi148™ VMEbus interface chip offering 2eSST VMEbus performance. The MVME3100 has been optimized for performance, flexibility and price and addresses a wide range of applications including industrial control, test/measurement and image processing. The MVME3100 delivers a 4x or better performance advantage, at a similar price point, compared to the MVME162 and MVME2300 products.

• Freescale MPC8540 System-on-Chip processor
• 256MB/512MB DDR ECC SDRAM; 64MB/128MB of Flash memory
• Dual Gigabit, one 10/100 Ethernet ports, USB 2.0 and SATA controllers
• Tsi148 PCI-X bus to VMEbus bridge with 320MB/sec 2eSST VMEbus protocol
• Dual PMC-X sites
• Five serial ports, RTC, four tick timers, watchdog timer, and Rear Transition Module (RTM)

The MVME3100 is built around the MPC8540 system-on-chip (SoC) processor, which allows the MVME3100 to offer lifecycle, power/thermal and reliability advantages not typically found in industrial PCs. The MPC8540 integrates the processor, memory controller, PCI-X controller and dual GigE interfaces into a single, low-power (<7W) device. Utilizing the 2eSST VMEbus protocol interface, the MVME3100 is capable of transferring data across the VMEbus at 320MB/s. The combination of the 2eSST VMEbus, GigE, USB 2.0 and SATA interfaces, along with dual PMC-X sites, enables customers to cost-effectively build systems with real-world interfaces, while strategically leveraging their existing investments in VMEbus infrastructure and longer lifecycle products.

The MVME3100 is a cost-effective SBC for industrial control applications. In addition to these traditional control applications, the MVME3100 can be used in conjunction with the MVME6100 to deliver very high performance solutions. For instance, the MVME3100 can be utilized as an intelligent PMC carrier that can perform front-end processing of the data before it is transferred across the VMEbus utilizing the 320MB/s of 2eSST bandwidth to an MVME6100 board for back-end processing utilizing the AltiVec-enabled processor on the MVME6100 board.

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