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Montvale, N.J. - The United Kingdom's Radstone Technology Corp. and France's Cetia/Thomson-CSF have jointly developed one of the first single-board computers (SBC) compliant with PREP (PowerPC Reference Platform). The base design created by the companies, riding on the PowerPC 603 and 604 processors, has a 64-bit VMEbus board supporting up to four PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) I/O modules. It will be used by each as a platform to spin off its own unique family of boards.
Cetia was the first to market with a PowerPC VME board, jointly developed with IBM, which was later licensed to Radstone to be recast in ruggedized and militarized versions. Such...