The low-power U-C9140 is a PowerPC-based 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC) aligned to The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard, Edition 1.0. 

“This unique combination of the PowerPC CPU architecture and alignment to the SOSA Technical Standard provides excellent performance in open standards-based, real-time applications,” said Alex Trigoub, director, board level product line for Aitech. “It will also be Aitech’s first SOSA-aligned SBC supporting FACE conformant Wind River VxWorks 653 OS and a compliant BSP. It fulfills a market need for designers looking for lower power consumption or who may want to reuse the widely available existing PowerPC application code.” 

Military and defense applications benefitting from this cost-effective SBC include mission computers, sensor signal processing, signal intelligence, and electronic warfare, since it provides excellent performance per watt. In addition, the SBC’s FACE compliance (and future conformance) facilitates fast integration into airborne mission computers and applications.

The SOSA aligned U-C9140 is Aitech's latest generation 3U VPX PowerPC SBC, based on NXP's QorIQ T1/T2 Series SoC multicore, multithread processors. For improved security assurance and protection against cyber-attacks, the U-C9140 also includes the latest QorIQ Secure Boot and Trust Architecture 2.0.

The wide variety of onboard I/O and large memory resources, including up to 8 GB of DDR3L and 64 GB of eMMC flash onboard mass storage, in combination with the powerful SoC processor, make the U-C9140 an ideal SBC for many real-time, rugged applications requiring superior SWaP-C optimization. An industry standard XMC slot provides flexibility and expandability, along with the availability, convenience and cost benefits of COTS.