[July 01, 2011] GE Intelligent Platforms' single board computers selected by Brimar for new patrol vehicles Tweet Jul 01, 2011 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- GE Intelligent Platforms had secured orders from Brimar Limited of Manchester, England, for a quantity of its CR12 6U CompactPCI single board computers, the company announced on Thursday. GE said that the computers will form part of an intelligent display driver that will provide ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) video information from vehicle-mounted cameras to the crew of the Foxhound Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV), as part of the vehicle's Thales-supplied electronic architecture. Financial details of the order were not available. Brimar is reportedly producing 200 Foxhound vehicles to meet a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) for patrol vehicles for Afghanistan. The CR12 is a rugged 6U CompactPCI single board computer featuring an Intel Core i7-610E processor operating at up to 2.53 GHz. As well as supporting up to 8GBytes of soldered DDR3 SDRAM with ECC, it provides support for two PCI-X PMCs or two x8 PCI Express® XMCs. Connectivity includes two front Gigabit Ethernet ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, VGA, five USB ports, two DVI ports, three SATA ports and two COM ports. It is available in five ruggedization levels, from benign/office to fully rugged convection cooled. The Foxhound is a 7.5t lightweight mine-protected vehicle and is expected to provide better protection and flexibility than previous generation vehicles. GE Intelligent Platforms, a business division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), is provider of software, hardware, services and expertise in automation and embedded computing. Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]