Nitro260 Emerson Scalable VME CPU Board

The Heurikon's Nitro has been specifically designed to power real-time applications that demand high performance and reliable multiprocessing such as communications, high-speed printing, video-on-demand, machine vision, simulation, and other I/O intensive applications.

At the heart of the Nitro260 is Motorola's 50 MHz MC68060 CPU, and the Nitro240 is powered by the 33 MHz MC68040 CPU. The 68060 offers two to four times the performance of the 68040 and employs a superscalar architecture with dual 4-stage integer pipelines.

In addition to its two front-panel console serial ports, the board supports up to seven additional serial channels via Motorola's MC68360 QUad Integrated Communication Controller (QUICC). In its standard configuration, four of the QUICC chip's multi-protocol serial ports are routed through the VME P2 connector.

Two versions of the Nitro board are available: the Nitro60 is based on Motorola's 50 MHz .MC68060 processor, employing a superscalar architecture with dual 4-stage integer pipelines. The Nitro40 features the economical MC68040 processor and is fully compatible with the Nitro60.

Wind River Systems' VxWorks and Microware's OS-9 software provide users with powerful real-time operating systems and a rich set of development tools.

Nitro's two front panel serial I/O ports provide multi-protocol data communications capability. A fast and wide SCSI II interface and on-board Ethernet; for high performance DMA supported I/O are included as standard.