Aitech targets U-C9140 PowerPC-based SBC for military applications
Claimed to be the only PowerPC-based single board computer (SBC) aligned to the SOSA technical standard and featuring NXP’s QorIQ T1/T2 series SoC, the U-C9140 is a SWaP-C-optimised SBC from Aitech.
The low power U-C9140 is a PowerPC-based 3U VPX SBC that is aligned to the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) Edition 1.0, for fast integration and accelerated time-to-market.
Aitech’s Alex Trigoub described it as the company’s first SOSA-aligned SBC supporting FACE (Future Airborne Capability Environment) -conformant Wind River VxWorks 653 OS and a compliant BSP (board support package). “It fulfills a market need for designers looking for lower power consumption or who may want to reuse the widely-available existing PowerPC application code,” he said.
The SBC’s performance per W means it can be used in a variety of military and defence applications, including mission computers, sensor signal processing, signal intelligence and electronic warfare, since it provides excellent performance per Watt. Compliance to FACE facilitates especially fast integration into airborne mission computers and applications, added Aitech.
The SOSA aligned U-C9140 is Aitech’s latest generation 3U VPX PowerPC SBC, based on NXP’s QorIQ T1/T2 series SoC multi-core, multi-thread processors. For improved security assurance and protection against cyber-attacks, the U-C9140 also includes the latest QorIQ Secure Boot and Trust Architecture 2.0.
There is up to 8Gbyte of DDR3L and 64Gbyte of eMMC flash on-board mass storage. This, combined with the SoC processor, make the U-C9140 suitable for real time, rugged applications requiring superior SWaP-C optimisation. An industry standard XMC slot provides flexibility and expandability.
Aitech has 40 years’ of experience in digital electronics manufacture and provides rugged embedded systems for the harshest environments in military, aerospace and space applications. The company provides COTS products based on multiple open standard architectures, including SOSA, FACE, VPX, CompactPCI such as SBCs, I/O, memory and graphics boards, PMC/XMCs and sub-system enclosures.
