Mezzanine card boosts memory performance

摘要

Targeting use in high-density-local-storage applications, such as tactical area maps, radar images, and software-programmable radio-electronic-intelligence data, Aitech Defense Systems' new M222 PMC (PCI mezzanine card) provides sustained data transfers as fast as 130 Mbytes/sec and consumes less than 7W. The board incorporates as much as 64 Gbytes of NAND-flash memory in two independent banks with integrated FPGA-based DMA (direct-memory-access) controllers. The M222 provides full file-system read/write emulation, automatic block management, and interleaved DMA of as many as 32 memory banks.