Electronic Tools, announces the availability of Extreme Engineering Solutions AdvancedTCA blade hosting eighteen PowerPC processors. XCalibur1411 targets nine dual-core P.A. Semi PA6T-1682 PWRficient processors and each of the eighteen processor cores run at up to 2 GHz. Coupled with 1 GB to 2 GB of DDR2 memory per processor, XCalibur1411 has the appearance of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) blade in an ATCA form factor.

Key features include:

• Standard 8U AdvancedTCA form factor,
• Nine P.A.Semi PA6T-1682 PWRficient dual-core processors to 2.0 GHz on each core,
• Power at only 200W – can run at lower clock speeds to reduce power consumption,
• 1 GB to 2 GB DDR2 per processor core,
• 32 Mb NOR and 1 GB NAND Flash,
• PCI Express and 10 Gb Ethernet XAUI fabric interconnect,
• Dual 1 Gb Ethernets on-card to each processor subsystem,
• In-house software support for Linux, QNX, VxWorks and Integrity.