Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:47:29 -0500

Hi,

We are looking for a low cost high performance PPC-based IOC to replace
the MVME2100 in the future. At some point we need to be ready for the
EOL of the MVME2100. 

I have discovered the MVME3100 and currently have it running under
vxWorks 6.2 and EPICS R3.14.8.2.  
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ics-ioc-condor1>coreRelease
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###  EPICS IOC CORE built on Feb 17 2006
###  EPICS R3.14.8.2-SNS1 $R3-14-8-2$ $2006/01/06 15:55:13$
############################################################################
value = 0 = 0x0
ics-ioc-condor1>

ics-ioc-condor1>version
VxWorks (for Motorola MVME3100-1152 - MPC8540) version 6.2.
Kernel: WIND version 2.8.
Made on Feb 17 2006, 08:28:38.
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The MVME3100 is based on the E500 core.   Are there any other users
moving to vxWorks 6.2? 

I know WindRiver is expensive; so who will do an mv3100 RTEMS port? :)

I have run a set of performance tests from Marty's test suite
(performApp):
Processing 213,000 records/sec.  That is twice the processing compared
to the MVME2100.  

Of course, we will be running a lot more tests here and tweaking the BSP
as needed. For example, we have some applications that could use the
Signal Processing Engine (i.e. SPE support)

PS: WindRiver also offers a BSP for vxWorks 5.5.1

The following is an excerpt from the BSP documentation:
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It consists of the 
MPC8540 PowerQUICC III integrated processor with serial ATA, USB 2.0,
2eSST VMEbus interfaces, dual 64-bit/100MHz PMC sites, one flash bank
(with two boot blocks), dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet, one 10/100 Ethernet,
five serial ports, and a single SODIMM module.
The MVME3100 has its own transition board, but does not require one.
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I have the following:
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MVME3100-1152 667 MHz MPC8540 processor, 256MB DDR SDRAM, 64MB flash,
Gigabit Ethernet, SATA
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And the most beautiful things is the list price of $1450 :)

Thanks,
Ernest L. Williams Jr.
SNS Control Systems Group
ORNL

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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