CompactPCI SBC supports Intel Pentium M

Concurrent Technologies has enhanced its range of single slot, high performance, low power, CompactPCI based single board computers (SBC) using the Intel Pentium M processor.

Concurrent Technologies has enhanced its range of single slot, high performance, low power, CompactPCI based single board computers (SBC) using the Intel Pentium M processor.

The PP 300/02x supports the 1.6GHz processor (1Mbyte L2 cache) and the PP 302/02x supports either the 1.8 or 1.4GHz processor (2Mbyte L2 cache).

Using the Intel 855GME GMCH, the processor can access up to 2Gbyte of 333MHz DDR ECC SDRAM.

The PP 30x/02x can operate as a system/peripheral slot controller or as a satellite board (blade), all with hot-swap capability.

Using the Intel 6300ESB ICH, this SBC's I/O capability includes Ultra-160 SCSI, dual EIDE ATA100 and dual Serial ATA150 interfaces, a 66MHz PMC site, four gigabit Ethernet channels, PICMG 2.16 and PICMG 2.9 (IPMI).

Applications include telecoms, telemetry, defence, security, industrial-control, scientific, and aerospace markets.

For harsher applications, using the 1.4 GHz processor, operation over -40 to +85C and over -25 to +70C is supported.

"As a single slot CompactPCI SBC, the PP 30x/02x family is ideally suited to data control or server intensive applications by including four gigabit Ethernet interfaces and onboard high performance hard disk interfaces that includes Ultra-160 SCSI and Serial ATA150", said Jane Annear, Commercial Director for Concurrent Technologies.

"And our choice of a low power chipset, along with onboard soldered memory, allows us to offer extended temperature variants of boards for defence and industrial applications".

To cater for a range of applications, using the EIDE ATA100 interface, there are options to install an onboard EIDE 2.5in disk drive or CompactFlash/Hitachi GS Microdrive carrier, while maintaining a single slot.

For embedded applications that require the PMC site the board supports an onboard CompactFlash socket as standard.

A minimum of 512Mbyte of 333MHz DDR SDRAM is soldered to the board.

For faster CompactPCI control/data plane throughput the PP 30x/02x can operate at 66MHz backplane PCI signalling speeds.

A 2048 x 1536 graphics interface, including DVI-D support, is implemented using the Intel 855GME GMCH.

Other features provided are keyboard and mouse interface, floppy disk interface, two RS232 serial channels, three USB 2.0 ports, PC real-time clock, watchdog timer and legacy speaker interface.

IPMI supports IPMB0 and IPMB1.

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

The PP 300/02x and PP 302/02x support many of today's leading operating systems, including VxWorks, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP Embedded, Solaris, LynxOS and QNX.

PP 300/02x list prices start from approximately $3100.

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