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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: PP CP1/P3x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 July 2001
High-performance single-slot system
controller
The latest high performance CompactPCI system slot controller from Concurrent Technologies is the PP CP1/P3x.
The latest high performance CompactPCI system slot controller from Concurrent Technologies is the PP CP1/P3x This board introduces the latest draft standard of PICMG2.16 (Packet Switching Backplane), which is an ideal introduction to switched fabric applications, and IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PP PMC/002 is designed to provide a cost effective and flexible approach to implementing standard and custom I/O requirements using industry standard PMC modules in CompactPCI systems.
As a system controller, the PP CP1/P3x supports the PICMG 2.1 hot swap specification.
The board can also be used in satellite mode (stand-alone) for applications not requiring the CompactPCI backplane except for providing power.
Featuring an 850MHz Pentium III processor and up to 1Gbyte DRAM within a single slot, this feature-rich board is ideal for a variety of applications, including those requiring long life availability, configuration control, and high reliability.
Applications are expected in a variety of market sectors including defence, medical, and telecommunications.
The processor supports 100MHz bus, and 256Kbyte of high speed secondary cache.
For increased reliability, as with all Concurrent Technologies' designs, heatsinks are used in preference to fans for cooling the CPU, while maintaining a single slot solution.
The board provides a minimum of 512Mbyte of SDRAM which can easily be upgraded to 1Gbyte using standard off-the-shelf DRAM modules.
EIDE is supported and an optional onboard 2.5in disk drive is available within a single slot.
Alternatively, one or two CompactFlash modules can be installed.
In addition, 8Mbyte of application Flash memory is provided.
Two fast Ethernet channels are provided using Intel 82599ER devices and each channel supports 10Base-T and 100 Base-TX.
The channels are individually switchable between the front panel RJ45 connectors and rear connectors.
Support is also provided for PICMG 2.16 Packet Switching Backplane.
Two RS232 serial channels are provided, together with a graphics interface with AGP support using the Asiliant 69030 device.
Other interfaces include keyboard and mouse interface, PC real- time clock, two USB interfaces, parallel printer, watchdog timer, system fan monitor and speaker interface.
The board's features can be further customised to suit the user's application by the addition of a PMC module.
An optional transition module is also available.
For ease of integration, the PP CP1/P3x supports many of today's leading operating systems, including Windows NT, VxWorks and Linux.
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