Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, Completes the Development of a High-speed AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade Design

Maynard, MA., (August 22, 2008)- Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, completes the development of a high-speed AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade design based on a Freescale Power-PC MPC8548 supported by 400MHz DDR2 RAM design.

The AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade electronics design demands the most from any engineering team. The 32-bit, 1.3 GHz processor with 48 lanes of PCI Express peripheral support and fat-pipe I/O support is a performance champion. The design also has customized Zone 3 RTM connectivity. In addition, Renasas SH8-based IPMI resource management supports over 200 Watts of on-board hot-swap power control making this ATCA Blade highly reliable.

�AdvancedTCA and microTCA architectures are intended for demanding, high availability applications,� says Paul Nickelsberg, President and Senior Engineer at Orchid Technologies. �Orchid's early success with AdvancedTCA and microTCA design provided our clients world-class high-end computing options.�

About Orchid Technologies

Orchid develops custom electronic products for OEM's. Orchid has successfully completed hundreds of electronic product designs. Orchid has designed high-performing, high-speed computer blade designs with rapid design cycles for its OEM clients. Visit Orchid Technologies' website http://www.orchid-tech.com for recent design projects. For additional information contact Paul Nickelsberg, President of Orchid Technologies at 978-461-2000.