Ai-RIO Aitech Defense Systems SFF Remote I/O Subsystem

The Aitech Defense Systems Ai-RIO SFF Remote I/O Subsystem product line represents a new paradigm in platform Remote I/O management intended primarily for the Earth-Orbit Space and rugged Mil & Aerospace applications. At the heart of the Ai-RIO is a powerful, dual-core P1020 PowerPC processor teamed with two (2) leadingedge, radiation-tolerant FPGA's providing a large, superset of I/O and onboard functionality in a small, 5.5" x 5.5" Small Form Factor EMI/EMC enclosure. Connectors to the outside world can be either micro D-Subs for Space, or standard, micro MIL-DTL-38999 "Mighty Mouse" type circular military connectors for defense. The Ai-RIO is an intelligent, modular, easily scalable system-of-systems allowing the expansion of internal I/O, memory or other internal resources by the addition of expansion modules (or "slices"). The basic configuration is two (2) module "slices"; one the modular Power Supply Unit (PSU) and the other is the CPU module. The CPU provides two (2) internal expansion busses; a high-speed PCIe bus and a TDM (Time Division Multiplexed) bus with 512 channels geared toward expansion of slower I/O. Up to eight Ai-RIO modules can be simply stacked together onto the base CPU/PSU configuration to expand the subsystem's I/O, power switching, mass/SSD FLASH memory or other functionality.