The Cetia SA subsidiary of Thomson-CSF SA’s Information and Technology Group, has launched the first two products in its PowerEngine range of VME single-board computers based on the IBM PowerPC 601 microprocessor. The two products are the VMTR2, a high-performance VME board and the VGPW2, a VME board optimised for real-time and embedded applications under POSIX 1003.4-compliant operating systems. The VMTR2 performance has been measured at 60 Specmarks 92 in integer mode and 80 Specmarks 92 in floating-point mode, at 66MHz. It supports the UNI/XT and UNI/RT5 operating systems – UNI/RT5 is based on LynxOS technology from Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc. The VGPW2 runs the UNI/RTR5 LynxOS. Cetia says it has already begun installing and support PowerEngine units at independent software vendors, third party and integrator beta test sites worldwide. It has also begun support activities, including the establishment of software qualification and porting centres in Palo Alto, California and Les Ulis, in France.
