8 SBC330 3U VPX Single Board Computer
Publication No. SBC330-0HH/3
1 • Introduction
The
SBC330
is
a
3U
VPX
Single
Board
Computer,
and
is
part
of
GE
Intelligent
Platforms’
VPXtreme3
range
of
products.
It
uses
the
Freescale
MPC8641D
dual
‐
core
Integrated
Host
Processor,
which
contains
two
e600
PowerPC
processing
cores
running
at
1.0
to
1.5
GHz
with
dual
DDR2
memory
controllers,
serial
fabric
and
I/O
interfaces.
The
SBC330
offers
up
to
2
GBytes
of
DDR2
SDRAM
with
ECC,
up
to
256
MBytes
of
Flash
memory,
two
Gigabit
Ethernet
channels,
on
‐
board
serial
communications
(RS232),
four
USB2
ports,
two
SATA
‐
2.0
ports
and
two
independent
PCI
Express
links
routed
to
the
VPX
backplane:
a
direct
8
‐
lane
port
for
extreme
graphics
applications,
and
a
4
‐
lane
port
routed
via
an
on
‐
board
PCIe
switch.
The
MPC8641D
is
connected
to
all
on
‐
board
PCI
devices
using
PCI
Express.
This
is
a
high
‐
speed
serial
interconnect
running
at
2.5
Gbits/second,
providing
a
total
bandwidth
of
1
GBytes/second
to
and
from
the
processor,
through
a
non
‐
blocking
switch
architecture.
PCI
Express
is
software
compatible
with
PCI
and
bridges
are
used
where
connection
to
PCI
or
PCI
‐
X
components
is
required.
Figure 1-1
