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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: VP PSE/P3x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 May 2002
VME SBC spreads to extreme temperatures
Concurrent Technologies has released an extended temperature version of the popular VP PSE/P3x, an Intel Pentium III based single-slot 6U VME CPU board.
Concurrent Technologies has released an extended temperature version of the popular VP PSE/P3x, an Intel Pentium III based single-slot 6U VME CPU board The VP PSE/P3x is a high performance, versatile CPU board with a variety of extra features, which has made it an excellent choice for many applications within the telecommunications, defence, industrial, medical and aerospace market sectors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the release of the extended temperature version, the range of potential uses for the board has been increased to include applications requiring an operating environment of -25 to +70C, typically within the defence and transportation markets.
For the extended temperature version of the board, the processing power is provided by either an 850MHz or 700MHz Pentium III processor equipped with 32Kbytes of Level 1 cache and 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/P3x, 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 256Mbyts of lower cost SDRAM and support for DiskOnChip.
On board 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 onboard PMC site, and a further two PMC modules can be added using the optional PMC carrier board (extended temperature version) which connects directly to the VP PSE/P3x via the onboard PMC expansion interface.
To ensure ease of integration, the VP PSE/P3x supports a wide range of operating systems including Windows XP Embedded, Windows 2000, Windows NT, VxWorks, LynxOS, Solaris, Linux, QNX and MS-DOS.
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