Mercury Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRCY), a leading high-tech commercial
provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems
powering today's critical defense and intelligence applications,
announced the rugged OpenVPX™ Ensemble® LDS3506 processing module
that seamlessly integrates the Intel® Xeon® processor D
system-on-a-chip (SoC) product family (formerly codenamed
"Broadwell DE") with Xilinx's powerful Ultrascale™ FPGA in a
SWaP-constrained 3U package. This dense union of best available
commercial-item general processing and FPGA resources produces a
highly versatile, affordable and interoperable building block for
embedded, high-performance computing applications with additional
low-latency, refresh and mission capabilities.
The Ensemble LDS3506 leverages Mercury's fourth generation of
highly SWaP-efficient packaging technology to securely deliver the
Intel Xeon processor D product family for reliable deployment in
scalable subsystems right to the tactical edge. The Ensemble
LDS3506 secures and cools the best commercial technology to produce
a dense, powerful combination of general server-class and
low-latency front-end FPGA processing in an open systems
architecture module that is designed and made in the USA.
"With over 256 peak GFLOPS of general processing power from the
Intel processor alone, the Ensemble LDS3506 represents a disruptive
force in the 3U embedded market space," said Ian Dunn, Vice
President of Mercury Systems' Embedded Products group. "But, it is
the unique combination of this latest Intel technology combined
with the low-latency and versatile FPGA resources that delivers a
potent compute solution for multidimensional SWaP-constrained
applications, particularly those that are sensitive to performance
and latency, such as electronic warfare (EW),
electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR), image intelligence (IMINT) and
other mission or sensor processing applications."
The LDS3506 provides x4 Gen3 PCIe connectivity across the data
plane via Xilinx's FPGA device, with multiple DMA-enabled
non-transparent bridge (NTB) interfaces, giving users the
versatility needed to construct powerful processing subsystems
quickly. The module's latest Xilinx FPGA hosts Mercury's Protocol
Offload Engine Technology (POET™) to give each module the ability
to refresh its mission capability, provide information assurance
abilities, or even refresh or upgrade its switch fabric itself
without affecting any hardware.
"The Intel Xeon processor D family featuring Intel Advanced
Vector Extension 2.0 (Intel AVX2) support, SoC architecture and the
integrated Platform Controller Hub enables server-class performance
within smaller form factors, including 3U OpenVPX," said Steve
Price, General Manager, Communications Infrastructure Division,
Intel. "The elegance of the SoC architecture of the Intel Xeon
processor D-1540 supports a new range of dense, efficient system
designs in both the micro-server market and the embedded defense
application space."
The Ensemble LDS3506 supports open data movement middleware,
including Open MPI and OpenMPI/OFED™, VITA 46.11 system management,
and standard optimized math libraries. Modules will be initially
populated with the 45W TDP Xeon® D-1540 processor and will be
available with additional Intel® Xeon® D series processors as they
become available. Customer demonstrations will begin spring 2015
and production units will become available later this year for
air-cooled, conduction-cooled, and Air Flow-By™ systems. Additional
products in the 6U OpenVPX form factor based on the Intel Xeon
processor D family are expected to be announced by Mercury later
this year.
For detailed specifications and general product information,
visit www.mrcy.com/LDS3506 or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or
info@mrcy.com.
Mercury Systems – Innovation That Matters™
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq:MRCY) is the better alternative for
affordable, secure and sensor processing subsystems designed and
made in the USA. Optimized for program and mission success,
Mercury's solutions power a wide variety of critical defense and
intelligence applications on more than 300 programs such as Aegis,
Patriot, SEWIP, F-35 and Gorgon Stare. Headquartered in Chelmsford,
Massachusetts, Mercury Systems is a high-tech commercial company
purpose-built to meet rapidly evolving next-generation defense
electronics challenges. To learn more, visit www.mrcy.com.
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as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995, including those relating to the products and services
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and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continued funding of
defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding, general
economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in
the Company's markets, effects of continued geopolitical unrest and
regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods
of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing
programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product
mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering
technological innovations, changes in, or in the U.S. Government's
interpretation of, federal export control or procurement rules and
regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages
in components, production delays due to performance quality issues
with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected
benefits from acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings, or
delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating
acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, changes to
export regulations, increases in tax rates, changes to generally
accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining key
employees and customers, unanticipated costs under fixed-price
service and system integration engagements, and various other
factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also
include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the
Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 2014. The Company cautions readers not to place undue
reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only
as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update
any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances
after the date on which such statement is made.
Mercury Systems, Innovation That Matters, Air Flow-By and POET
are trademarks and Ensemble is a registered trademark of Mercury
Systems, Inc. Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel
Corporation in the United States and other countries. UltraScale is
a trademark of Xilinx, Inc. OpenVPX is a trademark of VITA. Other
product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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CONTACT: Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate
& Investor Communications
Mercury Systems
+1 978-967-1366 / rmcgrail@mrcy.com
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