VPXI ePC and Chassis

Air Cooled 3U 1/2 Rack OpenVPX Windows/Linux/VxWorks Computer with Five Expansion Slots

Air Cooled 3U OpenVPX Computer with 5 expansion slots

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RoHS Compliant  Works with Windows  Ships with Malibu libraries Works with Linux

  

Features

  • OpenVPX for Instrumentation
  • Integrated timing and triggering
  • Rugged with wide-temperature options
  • Embedded PC
  • Runs Windows, Linux or VxWorks
  • COM Express module with Intel i5/i7 CPU with up to 8 GB memory
  • Gb Ethernet, 4x USB, Displayport video
  • 256GB SSD + up to 3 removable drives
  • Compatible with many OpenVPX cards
  • Up to 3 HDD/SSD storage slots
  • Supports Innovative X3/X5/X6 and VPX-COP
  • Integrated timing and triggering features
  • Internal or external clock/references
  • Generate low phase noise sample clocks from 0.125 to 1 GHz
  • 10MHz, 0.5 ppm stable clock reference
  • Optional GPS-disciplined reference
  • Mesh interconnects all IO cards
  • Front panel x4 optical link for SRIO IO
  • Rear Terminal Modules for I/O and CPU slots
  • Forced air cooling with upper and lower fans
  • Integrated 500W power supply
  • Expands to additional VPXI chassis using cable PCI Express option

Applications

  • Remote, Autonomous IO
  • Mobile Instrumentation
  • Distributed Data Acquisition
  • Signal Processing Clusters

Overview

The VPXI-ePC is a 3U VPX embedded computer system that provides is a performance architecture for instrumentation, signal processing and embedded computing applications. Four expansion slots, plus an IO/HDD drive are in a compact half rack, 4U enclosure. The VPX-COMEX CPU combines an Intel-architecture COM Express CPU module with timing and communications features. Real-time, data-intensive operation is built on multiple, high performance data planes employing both centralized and mesh topologies interconnections between the cards.

VPXI integrates timing features into the VPX architecture providing synchronized high performance clock and trigger features to each slot. Peripheral slots receive a dedicated clock and trigger input, as well as several shared coordination signals. These signals are used by VPX-COP, X6 and X3 IO card families and support simultaneous and coordinated sampling. An optional high-precision GPS can be used with the VPX-COMEX as a timing reference.

The backbone of the system in the VPXI-ePC are the PCIe and SRIO planes in the VPXI system. Each plane can sustain data rates over 500 MB/s concurrently on PCIe and SRIO planes. The SRIO data plane also has a x4 optical link on the front panel supporting 12 Gbps connection.

The VPXI may host one VPX-COMEX CPU card to create a Windows/Linux/VxWorks compatible PC. The VPXI-ePC can run the same applications as desktop system. Performance OS such as Linux Xeonmai and VxWorks are available for real-time applications.