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VMEbus Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: VP 315/02x and 317/02x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 June 2004
Pentium M-based VME family hosts dual
PMC slots
A new range of high-performance low-power VME-based dual PMC single slot boards are all based on the Intel Pentium M processor.
A new range of high-performance low-power VME-based dual PMC single slot boards are all based on the Intel Pentium M processor The VP 315/02x supports either the 1.6 or 1.1GHz processor (1Mbyte L2 cache) and the VP 317/02x supports the 1.8GHz processor (2Mbyte L2 cache)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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It can also be used as a method of offloading tasks from the standard VME backplane, thereby improving overall application efficiency.
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The Intel 855GME graphics memory controller hub (GMCH) and Intel 6300ESB I/O controller hub (ICH) create an optimised integrated graphics solution with a 400MHz system bus and integrated 32bit 3D core at 133MHz.
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The 400MHz system bus delivers a high-bandwidth connection between the processor and the GMCH.
Supporting two 64bit 66MHz PMC sites, and expansion for two more PMC sites (all with rear I/O) this high functionality board offers an extensive array of functions - analogue/digital graphics, keyboard, mouse, two RS232/422/485 interfaces, two USB interfaces and an EIDE interface.
The front panel supports dual PMC, analogue graphics, keyboard and mouse interfaces, and includes an additional RS232 interface.
To cater for embedded applications, there is 64Mbyte of application Flash memory.
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As well as the industry standard PC interfaces, other features available include a watchdog timer, long duration timer, and LAN boot firmware.
The VP 315/02x and VP 317/02x support many of today's leading operating systems, including VxWorks, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, RTX, QNX, Solaris, LynxOS and MS-DOS.
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