EMERSON MVME5500

Description

The MVME5500 is the
flagship of our VME product
line that enables higher levels
of performance in a single
VMEbus slot
MPC7457 PowerPC® processor
at 1 GHz
512KB of on-chip L2 cache and
2MB of L3 cache
AltiVec coprocessor for highperformance computational
applications
512MB of on-board 133 MHz
SDRAM ECC memory and
512MB additional memory via
a memory mezzanine card for a
total of 1GB of memory
Two banks of soldered flash
memory (32MB and 8MB)
Dual independent 64-bit PCI
buses and PMC sites with a bus
speed of up to 66 MHz
Gigabit Ethernet interface plus
an additional 10/100BaseTX
Ethernet interface
64-bit PCI expansion mezzanine
connector allowing up to four
more PMCs
I/O compatibility with
MVME51xx family
Single VME slot even when fully
configured with two PMC modules or one PMC module and an
add-on memory mezzanine
Support for processor PMCs
(PrPMCs)

The Emerson Network Power MVME5500 series is designed to meet the needs of
OEMs including those in defense and aerospace, industrial automation and medical
imaging market segments. Customers looking for a technology refresh for their
application while maintaining backward compatibility with their existing VMEbus
infrastructure can upgrade to the MVME5500 series and take advantage of the
enhanced performance features.
The MVME5500 utilizes the MPC7457 processor running at 1 GHz, which is ideal for
data intensive applications. The MVME5500 provides more than just better processor
performance; it also provides balanced performance from the processor, memory,
dual independent local buses and I/O subsystems.
The powerful Marvell system controller, with support for a 133 MHz host bus and
a 133 MHz SDRAM memory bus, is well matched to the high speed processor. To
match the system I/O to the outstanding processor performance, the MVME5500
provides dual 64-bit, 33/66 MHz PCI buses. Each PCI bus has a PMC site supporting
cards running at 33 or 66 MHz. The Universe II VME interface and PMCspan connector are isolated from the PMC sites on a dedicated 33 MHz PCI bus segment so that
both PMC sites are capable of 66 MHz operation.
The MVME5500 also offers a Gigabit Ethernet interface, a 10/100BaseTX Ethernet
interface and two serial ports. All of this adds up to a set of well-balanced