PC-compatible VME board runs up to 1GHz

Concurrent Technologies has added a 1GHz Pentium III CPU option to its VP PSE/Pxx single-slot 6U VME family.

Concurrent Technologies has added a 1GHz Pentium III CPU option to its VP PSE/Pxx single-slot 6U VME family.

The VP PSE/Pxx family is a high performance, versatile CPU board with a variety of extra features.

It is an excellent choice as the central processing unit for applications in the telecommunications, defence, industrial, medical and aerospace markets.

The board's processing power, provided by either a 1GHz, 850MHz or 700MHz Pentium III processor, has 32Kbyte of Level 1 cache and a 256Kbyte Level 2 cache.

The board uses the long-life-cycle 82440BX chipset which supports the 100MHz front-side bus.

A customised heatsink is fitted to the CPU to ensure that no fan is used on the board, and the board design is contained within a single slot.

The VP PSE/Pxx, a PC-compatible board, provides additional features including high performance Ultra-Wide SCSI and EIDE, 10 or 100Mbit/s Ethernet using a RJ45 connector, high resolution graphics including support for flat panel displays, up to 256Mbyte of lower-cost SDRAM and support for DiskOnChip.

Onboard fast hardware byte-swapping is also supported.

In addition, the board offers PC-compatible features such as keyboard, mouse, one RS232 serial interface, two USB interfaces, floppy disk interface and printer port.

These features can be further extended by the use of the on board PMC site, and a further two PMC modules can be added using an optional PMC carrier board which connects directly to the VP PSE/Pxx via the PMC expansion interface.

Additional optional Concurrent Technologies' product includes a mass storage module and CompactFlash module.

To ensure ease of integration, the VP PSE/Pxx supports a wide range of operating systems including Windows 2000, Windows NT, VxWorks, LynxOS, Solaris, Linux and QNX.

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