Vmetro has announced two new 6U VPX/REDI hybrid processing engines (HPE), the HPE640 and the HPE720.

They integrate Freescale Power Architecture MPC8641D dual-core PowerPC processors for general purpose processing with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs in a single slot.

Both boards, available in air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions, integrate the PowerPC processors with the Virtex-5 FPGAs, front-panel I/O, and VPX backplane connectivity. 

The HPE640 is designed for applications that stream data from sensors to FPGAs over low overhead, point-to-point protocols like Aurora or Serial FPDP. 

The HPE640 integrates two MPC8641D PowerPC processors with a choice of two DSP-optimized Virtex-5 SX95T devices and LX155T devices optimised for high-performance logic and low-power serial connectivity. Each of the two MPC8641D processors has 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM.