First SBC in new military/aerospace form-factor runs Linux
The first SBC (single-board computer) based on a new military/aerospace form-factor standard is now shipping, and runs Linux 2.6, according to distributor Mistral Solutions. The company says it is shipping Curtiss Wright Controls's (CWC's) VPX6-185, a PowerPC board based on the VPX (VITA 46) standard.
The VPX6-185 is based on a Freescale MPC8641-series processor with a single or dual e600 cores clocked to 1.5GHz. It has dual 64-bit memory controllers, and supports up to 2GB of DDR2 266 SDRAM with ECC. The board also has 512MB of flash with "write protection."
Additional touted specs include:
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