Dual PMC host mounts VMEbus

The VP 110/01x intelligent dual PMC host I/O board is the latest addition to the high performance yet low power Intel based VME family from Concurrent Technologies.

The VP 110/01x intelligent dual PMC host I/O board is the latest addition to the high performance yet low power Intel based VME family from Concurrent Technologies.

The VP 110/01x supports the 1.2GHz Mobile Intel Pentium III Processor-M or alternatively the 800MHz Low Voltage Intel Pentium III Processor 512K.

With two PMC sites, and the possibility to add a further two PMC sites within a second slot, the VP 110/01x is ideally suited to I/O intensive embedded applications.

The two 64bit 66MHz PMC sites are available for user functions or for the addition of any standard PMC modules.

The PMC I/O connector signals from both PMC sites are routed to the front panel and rear connectors.

An onboard connector allows for the addition of the optional PMC carrier board - the AD CR2/PMC, which allows the use of a total of four PMC modules within two VME slots.

At the core of the design is the low power Intel Pentium III "Tualatin" (0.13 micron) mobile processor in a "flip chip" package.

The processor, with options of 1.2GHz or 800MHz, supports a 133MHz front side bus and 512Kbyte of high-speed secondary cache.

For increased reliability heat sinks are used in preference to fans for cooling the CPU.

The VP 110/01x provides, soldered onboard, 512Mbyte of 133MHz ECC SDRAM that can easily be upgraded to 1Gbyte via the onboard memory socket plus 16 Mbytes of Application Flash memory and 512Kbyte of battery backed SRAM.

This board also supports EIDE (up to Ultra-DMA100); where installed EIDE options are an onboard EIDE 2.5in disk drive or a CompactFlash/IBM Microdrive carrier, both within a single slot.

Other features available are a dual 10baseT/100baseTX Ethernet interface, keyboard/mouse interface, PC real-time clock, an RS232 serial channel, a USB port, parallel printer port, watchdog timer and long duration timer.

A P2 or P2/P0 breakout module is provided to facilitate integration in specific applications requiring rear I/O connection.

For ease of integration, the VP 110/01x supports many of today's leading operating systems, including VxWorks, Linux, LynxOS, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP Embedded, RTX, and Solaris.

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