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Thunderbolt V-900 Specifications

System Processor Intel i960 HD, 40/80 MHz
External Memory 2 MB SRAM
32 MB Flash RAM

SKYchannel Interface
Specification ANSI/VITA 10-2002
Location Motherboard system bus and P2/P3 backplane interface
Data Size 64 bits data per word Up to 256 data words per packet
Throughput 320 MB/sec
Addressing 44-bit addressing, 16 Terabyte address space

VME64 Interface
Specification ANSI/VITA 1-1994
Interface Capabilities A16 and A24 (master only), A32, D8, D16, D32 (single), D16, D32(BLT), D64 (MBLT), RMW and VME Retry

Configuration Options
P3 Interface SKYchannel Backplane

Environmental Requirements
Temperature 0° to 55°C, operating; -40° to 85°C, non-operating
Humidity 5%–95%, non-condensing
Air Flow at least 300 LF/min

Electrical Requirements
DC Voltage 5.0 Volts ± 5%

Power Consumption
9U Motherboard Up to 40 Watts
Compute Module Up to 45 Watts

Physical
9U Motherboard 13.8” x 15.7”
Compute Module: 6”x6”
SKYrider: 3”x6”
Slot-to-slot Spacing 0.80 inches

Thunderbolt Compute Module Specifications
Performance 16 GFLOPS per module (peak)
Processors 4 MPC7410 processors per module
Clock Frequency 500 MHz
L1 Cache 32k instruction, 32k data
L2 Cache 2 MB Backside, 64-bits wide @ 250 MHz
Floating Point Unit IEEE 754 single- and scalar
Fixed Point Units Dual 32-bit Integer Units
Vector Instructions Full 128 bit AltiVec implementation 8, 16, 32 bit integer, single -precision floating point
Memory 256 or 512 MB SDRAM per processor, 64-bits wide @ 125 MHz
Module Interface SKYchannel Packet Bus (ANSI/VITA 10-1995)

SKYrider Specifications
Peak Transfer Rate 160 MB/sec (32 bits @ 40 MHz)
Sustained Receive Rate156 MB/sec (maximum)
Sustained Transmit Rate122 MB/sec (maximum)

Specifications are subject to change.