MEN Micro’s New ESMexpress® Standard: XM1
MEN Micro’s new XM1 ESMexpress® System-On-Module, based on the new ANSI-VITA 59 (RSE Rugged System-On-Module Express) computing standard in development, brings the cost and time savings of computer-on-modules (COMs) technology to rugged, harsh and mission-critical environments.
The XM1 features the first-generation Intel® Atoml® processor (Z530 at 1.6 GHz or Z510 at 1.1 GHz) based on 45-nm technology.
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Definition: The RapidIO architecture is a high-performance packet-switched, interconnect technology for interconnecting chips on a circuit board, and also circuit boards to each other using a backplane.
This technology is designed specifically for embedded systems, primarily for the signal processing, networking, and communications markets.
The main competitors are HyperTransport, Infiniband, and PCI Express, but these are targeted at the desktop and high performance computing arenas, as opposed to embedded systems.
RapidIO was developed by Mercury Computer Systems and Motorola (now Freescale), primarily as an upgraded interconnect for Mercury's embedded NUMA/cluster ('multicomputer') signal processing computers.
Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidIO)
