Diversified Technology's AMD Opteron ATCA Node

Processors are being use in ever more unique applications, and telecommunications are no exception. Diversified Technology, Inc.’s ATC6231 is a dual-core Second Generation AMD Opteron processor-based Node Board designed for telecom apps. The board is a PICMG 3.1 compliant processor blade for wireless access/edge, telecom fiber transport, media gateways, soft switches, and Internet IP-based applications. According to Diversified, the ATC6231 lets developers test their applications on an architecture aided by FPGAs connected to the node application processor. You can decide how much power the AMC will use and recover all unused AMC power in the form of application performance. AMD says that the second-generation AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture and DDR2 memory is designed to provide performance for the memory intensive Telecommunication market, which has benefited from the power of distributed computing. Direct Connect Architecture specifically helps eliminate the bottlenecks inherent in traditional front side bus architectures, offering high-throughput responsiveness and scalability. The HyperTransport technology advantages of the AMD Opteron processor to provide hardware differentiation among network equipment providers in the COTS market. Production shipments begin April, 2007. Single piece pricing for the ATC6231 is $4,645. Call for quantity discounts.