14 DAY TRIAL // GDA Technologies, Inc., an IP and Electronic Design Services (EDS) today announced the availability of the Reference Platform kit for Freescale Semiconductor's Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) based on the MPC8548E PowerQUICC III processor built on Power Architecture technology, designed with high-performance Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and up to 8 lanes of PCI Express for embedded applications in broadband telecommunications and data communications networks.
"GDA is one of the first companies to offer the leading-edge MPC8548E on a high-performance industry-standard platform running seamlessly in target mode and supported with Linux source code. This product is aimed at helping our customers accelerate their own innovations and get to market much faster and with significantly reduced risk. The MPC8548E-based AMC is the latest addition to GDA's portfolio of Freescale PowerQUICC III processor-based reference platforms, which have already become segment bestsellers," said Gopa Periyadan, VP & GM of the System and Software unit at GDA Technologies. "The GDA 8548E AMC board is already available for sale from Arrow Electronics."
On the other hand, the integrated MPC8548E processor architecture adopted on the AMC form-factor improves system performance, simplifies board design, lowers power consumption, and reduces system implementation cost. Furthermore, the board has four Gigabit Ethernet ports, a debug port on the front panel and 8 PCI Express lanes on the AMC edge connector; the 1.3GHz processor redefines the standard for high- performance AMC cards for AdvancedTCACarriers.
"Backed by Linux OS and development support from GDA, the MPC8548E Reference Platform provides a powerful, cost-effective solution for a broad range of applications, such as wireless base stations, media gateways, enterprise network access systems, test and measurement systems, and server blades implemented on the AdvancedTCA platform," said Jeff Timbs, marketing Director for Freescale's Digital Systems Division.
GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) specialized in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product.