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Real-Time Processing Blade in a Standard Single-Slot AdvancedTCA® Formfactor

  • Single or Dual PowerPC™ MPC7448 processors running at up to 1.4GHz
  • 2-Way SMP Architecture
  • ATCA PICMG 3.1 Node (1000Base-T Base interface + Octal High Speed GbE Fabric iterface)
  • Layer 2/3 Ethernet switch option
  • Quad PMC expansion sites
  • Redundant System Management Bus with IPM Controller
  • Up to 2 GByte DDR SDRAM w/ECC in SO-DIMM package
  • Up to 64MB Linear Flash
  • Real-Time Clock with supercap backup
  • VxWorks® and CG Linux® support
  • RoHS/WEEE compliant configuration available
  • Quality assured by over 35 years of design experience and a TL-9000 and ISO 9001:2000 certified quality management system. (FM 26789)

KatanaQp

 

AdvancedTCA (ATCA, PICMG3.0) is the consummate open architecture telecom platform and the KatanaQp is the ultimate configurable ATCA telecom blade. It features a two-way symmetric multi-processing (SMP) architecture with dual PowerPC MPC7448 processors and a full complement of I/O for communications applications.

KatanaQp's PCI Telephony Mezzanine Card (PTMC, PICMG 2.15, VITA 32) expansion sites give telecom OEMs, who want to get started with ATCA today, instant access to a wealth of third party PMC modules. This off-the-shelf expansion capability makes it easy to configure the KatanaQp for a wide variety of control and packet processing applications, including WAN access, SS7/SIGTRAN signaling, media gateways, traffic processing, wireless base station controllers and softswitches.

In telecom network elements, system management is essential. KatanaQp is an intelligent FRU and implements a redundant System Management Bus (SMB). It also fully supports the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) with AdvancedTCA extensions to support standards-based shelf management.

Using an off-the-shelf processor blade saves you time-to-market by allowing you to focus your engineering efforts on the key value add portions of the system without spending time and effort on the processor design and testing. A processor subsystem blade also lowers your lifetime cost of ownership by providing an easy upgrade path and protecting you from obsolescence issues.

Katana is a Japanese word for ‘sword’. Emerson’s Katana family of processor blades embodies the power and swiftness of this sword.