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COTS<br />
with Emerson Network Power for the supply<br />
of an optimized embedded motherboard has<br />
been designed for speed and simplicity. The<br />
engagement starts with a meeting between an<br />
Emerson Network Power representative (either<br />
a technical sales executive of Emerson Network<br />
Power, or a franchise representative from authorized<br />
distributor powerBridge Computer).<br />
At this meeting, the customer will specify the<br />
board requirements, choosing from a wide<br />
range of options supported by the RapiDex<br />
service.<br />
Within two business days, the customer will receive<br />
a <strong>com</strong>prehensive quotation package. As<br />
well as stating the guaranteed unit price for the<br />
required production volume (minimum 100<br />
units), the package includes a datasheet, a user<br />
manual and a 3D rendering of the proposed<br />
board configuration. This quotation package<br />
confirms the specifications of the board that<br />
Emerson Network Power will manufacture.<br />
Within eight weeks (and potentially within as<br />
little as four weeks) of receiving the purchase<br />
order, Emerson Network Power will ship sample,<br />
or first article, boards (1-12 units) for acceptance<br />
testing by the customer. These boards<br />
are produced according to the specification<br />
laid down in the quotation package. Within<br />
another eight weeks of receiving a forecasted<br />
volume order, Emerson Network Power will<br />
begin production shipments. (Volume orders<br />
follow Emerson standard turn-around time.).<br />
The process is simple and fast, and is similar<br />
to the process of ordering a standard embedded<br />
motherboard from a supplier catalogue.<br />
The RapiDex service is the embedded motherboard<br />
customization capability from the <strong>Embedded</strong><br />
Computing division of Emerson Network<br />
Power. Emerson Network Power is itself<br />
an operating unit of Emerson, a global manufacturing<br />
<strong>com</strong>pany that produced $21bn in<br />
revenues in the financial year 2009/10 from<br />
products and services in fields such as process<br />
management, industrial automation, distributed<br />
power and appliances and motors. Emerson<br />
is one of the leading manufacturing <strong>com</strong>panies,<br />
operating from 250 manufacturing locations<br />
(165 outside the US). Emerson gained<br />
730 patents in 2009, and invested $686m in<br />
engineering and development. The <strong>Embedded</strong><br />
Computing division is a powerful force in important<br />
embedded markets such as tele<strong>com</strong>s<br />
and network equipment, military and aerospace<br />
and process control. Standard products available<br />
from Emerson Network Power include<br />
ATCA blades and platforms, embedded motherboards<br />
<strong>com</strong>pliant with a variety of standards,<br />
and power modules and bricks for use in<br />
medium- and high-voltage applications. Emerson<br />
Network Power is a Premier member of<br />
the Intel <strong>Embedded</strong> Alliance. n<br />
March 2011 16<br />
<strong>Product</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
n GE: rugged SBCs based on ‘Sandy Bridge’<br />
processors<br />
GE Intelligent Platforms announces two<br />
new rugged single board <strong>com</strong>puters based<br />
on 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 ‘Sandy<br />
Bridge’ processors. Both the XCR14 and<br />
XVR 14 provide a choice of either dual- or<br />
quad-core 2nd Generation Intel Core i7<br />
processors operating at up to 2.5GHz, offering<br />
a range of four performance/watt<br />
options, and up to 16GBytes of soldered<br />
DDR3 SDRAM with ECC.<br />
<strong>News</strong> ID 13381<br />
n Kontron: enhanced VPX/OpenVPX<br />
ecosystem accelerates time-to-market<br />
Kontron announced several additions to its<br />
VPX/OpenVPX ecosystem including the Kontron<br />
3U VPX PCI Express and Ethernet hybrid<br />
switch VX3905, the Kontron 3U FMC carrier<br />
board VX3830, the Kontron 3U XMC/PMC<br />
carrier board VX3800 as well as OpenVPX<br />
backplanes. With these building blocks, alongside<br />
of the new VXFabric IP socket API for<br />
data management, Kontron provides a <strong>com</strong>prehensive<br />
VPX ecosystem. The focus of these<br />
additions to Kontron’s VPX/OpenVPX ecosystem<br />
surrounds the optimization of the data<br />
plane in VPX/OpenVPX multiprocessor systems<br />
and to relieve OEMs and developers<br />
from the <strong>com</strong>plex, low level hardware and<br />
data management.<br />
<strong>News</strong> ID 13335<br />
n AMP: full frame rate H.264 video cards<br />
for PC/104-Plus and mini PCI<br />
Advanced Micro Peripherals has introduced<br />
two H.264 frame grabber / video codec boards<br />
for the PC/104-Plus and mini PCI markets -<br />
both supporting 4 analog input channels with<br />
full frame rate video acquisition at full resolution<br />
NTSC / PAL image size. H.264 based<br />
video codec technology offers significantly improved<br />
<strong>com</strong>pression and video quality at lower<br />
bit rates and is quickly be<strong>com</strong>ing the standard<br />
of choice for new digital video recorder and<br />
video streaming applications.<br />
<strong>News</strong> ID 13229<br />
n Curtiss-Wright: 48-Port 10GbE physical<br />
layer switch port card<br />
Curtiss-Wright has announced the availability<br />
of its RT11000 48-port 10 Gigabit<br />
Ethernet card designed for use with its<br />
GLX4000 and SLX4000 physical layer switches.<br />
Designed to maximize system switching<br />
flexibility, the high port-count RT11000<br />
enables users to economically scale their 10<br />
GbE performance as their requirements<br />
change.<br />
<strong>News</strong> ID 13204
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