VPX6-1961

The VPX6-1961 from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions 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 ideal for architecting high-performance computing and processing systems utilizing DSP, GPGPU, and FPGA modules, and/or multiple SBC processors. With a high-speed, dual-channel DDR4 memory subsystem connected directly to the processor supporting up to 64 GB SDRAM, the VPX6-1961 is able to 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 ideal 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 variety 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 provided to 1G systems supporting 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-KX/BX.

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, providing 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, including Linux (CentOS and RHEL), VxWorks, Microsoft Windows, GHS Integrity, LynxOS, and others.