VPX6-1961

The VPX6-1961 from Curtiss-Wright is a rugged, high-performance 6U OpenVPX Single Board Computer (SBC) that combines Intel’s powerful 11th Gen Intel Xeon W-11865MRE (formerly “Tiger Lake-H”) processor with the power and flexibility of the VPX platform’s high-speed fabric interconnects.

Utilizing the advanced 8-core 11th Gen Intel Xeon W CPU and Curtiss-Wright’s proven ruggedization technology, the VPX6-1961 excels in harsh environments, making it optimum for architecting high-performance computing and processing systems utilizing DSP, GPGPU, and FPGA modules, and/or multiple Single Board Computer processors. With a high-speed, dual-channel DDR4 memory subsystem connected directly to the processor supporting up to 64 GB SDRAM, the rugged Xeon-based board, VPX6-1961 can maximize the performance of the multiple processing cores, the GPU cores, and the AVX512 floating-point processing units of the processor. Using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME), all SDRAM contents can be encrypted, offering added security protection.

Up to 1 TB of high-speed NVMe SSD memory makes the VPX6-1961 an optimal SBC for handling applications with demanding storage, data logging, and sensor processing requirements. The VPX6-1961 includes dual XMC mezzanine sites to support a wide range of expansion mezzanine daughter cards, including high-performance FPGA, GPGPU, and storage modules. Four 10G Ethernet ports are provided for Control Plane connectivity, supporting 10GBASE-T and 10GBASE-KR interfaces. Backward compatibility is assured for 1G systems that support both 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-KX/BX configurations.

The VPX6-1961 supports 32 lanes of PCI Express® (PCIe), with 16 lanes to the Data Plane and 16 additional lanes to the Expansion Plane, offering high-bandwidth connectivity to GPGPU, FPGA, storage, or other processor modules. Data can also flow from the VPX backplane directly to the XMC sites to support demanding high-bandwidth applications such as sensor and data processing or video/ graphics mezzanines. The VPX6-1961 supports a host of standard I/O including multiple RS-232, RS-422, SATA, and USB ports, discrete DIO, and dual-head DisplayPort or DVI interfaces supporting up to 4K resolution.

A wide range of popular operating systems are supported, along with Linux (CentOS and RHEL), VxWorks, Microsoft Windows, GHS Integrity, LynxOS, and others.