LEESBURG, VA – January 7, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) market, has introduced its first high performance VME64x DSP (Digital Signal Processing) engine utilizing the new dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor. The new CHAMP-AV5 is Curtiss-Wright Controls’ first DSP engine with the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor, representing an industry milestone in bringing the low-power/high-performance advantages of Intel processor technology to demanding military signal processing applications.
The CHAMP-AV5 complements Curtiss-Wright Controls’ new SVME/DMV-1905 single board computer, also based on the Intel® Core™ i7 processor. As a board set these two cards represent an industry milestone in bringing the myriad advantages of Intel processor technology to the rugged deployed COTS signal processing space.
“The combination of Intel Core i7 processor performance, along with Intel’s commitment to long life-cycle supply, has propelled us to choose Intel as the best technology choice for our signal processing product line,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We look forward to many future product generations that will harness Intel’s multi-core processor roadmap.”
“New embedded Intel processors are ideal for use in advanced signal processing systems and the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market segment,” said Ryan Parker, director of marketing, Embedded and Communications Group, Intel. “It is exciting to see Curtiss-Wright Controls use our technology in this way to deliver one of the first Intel architecture-based DSP products into this rapidly growing market segment.”
About the CHAMP-AV5
The CHAMP-AV5 multi-processing board brings the floating-point performance of the Intel® Core i7 architecture to the VME64x form factor standard. Utilizing a pair of 2.53GHz dual-core Core i7 processors, the CHAMP-AV5 delivers performance rated up to 81 GFLOPs. With a 17GB/s (peak) DDR3 memory subsystem connected directly to the processor, the Core i7 is able to maximize the throughput of its SSE 4.2 vector
processing units. With 4Mbytes of cache and two hardware threads per core, the Core i7 processor can process larger vectors at peak rates significantly greater than was possible with previous AltiVec™-based systems.
The CHAMP-AV5 is pin-compatible with the Curtiss-Wright Controls’ MPC7447/7448-based CHAMP-AV4, which enables performance upgrades without the requiring changing the chassis, backplane, or power supplies of existing qualified systems.
The CHAMP-AV5 features a high-bandwidth PCI Express® (PCIe) architecture, with on-board PCIe connections between the processors and the PMC/XMC sites. With 8GB of Flash and 4GB of SDRAM, the CHAMP-AV5 is designed for applications with demanding storage, data logging and sensor processing requirements.
Extensive Software Support
The CHAMP-AV5 is supported with an extensive suite of software including support for Wind River VxWorks and Linux operating environments. Additional software support includes Inter-processor communications (IPC) and Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Continuum Vector SSE-optimized signal processing library.
CHAMP-AV5 Key Features:
- High-performance floating point processing for DSP and general purpose applications
- 6U VME64x form factor
- Two dual-core Intel® Core™ i7 processors at up to 2.53GHz
- SSE 4.2 floating point vector unit
- Up to 81GFLOPs peak computing performance
- 2GB DDR3 SDRAM with ECC per processor
- One PMC/XMC mezzanine site
- One XMC mezzanine site
- Power management features
- VxWorks® 6.x BSP and driver suite supporting Workbench 3.x IDE
- Wind River® Linux®
- Rugged air-cooled and conduction cooled versions
The CHAMP-AV5 is the latest addition to Curtiss-Wright Controls’ broad family of high density multi-processors. It complements Curtiss-Wright Controls’ wide range of Network Switches/Routers, Digital Signal Processors, Graphics and Communications and I/O products. For more information on the CHAMP-AV5, please visit www.cwembedded.com.
Pricing for the CHAMP-AV5 starts at $14,500. Availability is Q2 2010.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information about Curtiss-Wright visit www.cwcembedded.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
