CompactPCI board hosts twin PMC slots

The PP 310/01x is a single-slot CompactPCI dual PMC host board that supports the 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M processor with up to 2Gbyte of 200MHz DDR ECC SDRAM.

The PP 310/01x is a single-slot CompactPCI dual PMC host board that supports the 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M processor with up to 2Gbyte of 200MHz DDR ECC SDRAM.

To give better I/O performance, and for lower power consumption, Concurrent Technologies chose the ServerWorks GC-LE chipset.

As well as two PMC sites with front and rear I/O, the PP 310/01x supports dual Gigabit Ethernet (via a PCI-X bus), PICMG 2.16 (packet switching backplane), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap).

The PP 310/01x can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral board or as a satellite board (blade) and is front and rear plug compatible with Concurrent Technologies' popular PP 110/01x family.

At the core of the design is the low power 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M Processor in a FC-PGA package with 1Mbyte of high-speed secondary (L2) on-die cache.

Designed for scalability, the PP 310/01x will support faster versions of the processors as they become available.

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

As an intelligent PMC carrier with dual 64bit 66MHz PMC sites, the PP 310/01x is ideally suited to intensive I/O or data applications.

Each site supports 3.3V or 5V PCI signalling and is available for user modules, standard PMC or PrPMC modules.

As well as front I/O, the PMC I/O connector signals from both PMC sites are routed to the rear connectors (J4 is not used).

Plus, for faster CompactPCI control/data plane throughput the PP 310/01x can auto-configure, on insertion/power-up, in a system operating at 66MHz backplane PCI signalling speeds.

To cater for embedded applications there is 32Mbyte of application Flash memory and 512Kbyte of battery-backed SRAM.

For a wider range of applications there is an EIDE interface (up to Ultra-DMA100), with installed EIDE options for an on-board EIDE 2.5in disk drive or CompactFlash/IBM (Hitachi) Microdrive carrier, both within a single slot.

Other features available are dual 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T Ethernet interfaces, graphics interface, keyboard/mouse interface, floppy disk interface, three RS232 serial channels, a USB port, parallel printer port, PC real-time clock, watchdog timer and long duration timer.

LAN boot firmware is included as well.

For applications requiring rear I/O connections a transition module is available.

For ease of integration, the PP 310/01x supports many of today's leading operating systems, including VxWorks, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP Embedded and QNX.

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