Out in Front: December 7, 1995

VME Microsystems International Corp (VMIC) has just announced a family of reflective-memory boards for several popular embedded-systems platforms. A technique that is increasingly popular for low-latency, real-time communications in multiprocessor applications, reflective memory offers a way for a CPU board to work from a local memory array that is constantly synchronized with arrays on one or more boards. The VMIC products can connect as many as 256 nodes with a network data rate of 29.5 Mbytes/sec using optical cable. VMIC offers the boards in three flavors. The VMIVME-5588 board plugs directly into the VMEbus, and prices start at $4777. The VMIPMC-5588 is a mezzanine implementation based on the PCI-like, PCI Mezzanine Card standard, and prices start at $6007. The VMIPCI-5588 features a PCI interface, and prices start at $5145. The company also offers a line of Pentium-based industrial workstations with prices starting at $4172. You can use these workstations with the reflective-memory boards. -- by Maury Wright

VMIC, Huntsville, AL. (205) 880-0444.