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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: VP 315/022-RC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 January 2005
Pentium-based VME SBC gets tough
Concurrent Technologies has a new ruggedised conduction cooled VME single board computer supporting dual PMC sites and using the Intel Pentium M processor.
Concurrent Technologies has a new ruggedised conduction cooled VME single board computer supporting dual PMC sites and using the Intel Pentium M processor The VP 315/022-RC supports a Pentium M (with 1 Mbyte L2 cache) operating at 1.2GHz
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The latest single-slot 6U VME board from Concurrent Technologies is a PMC host board featuring either a 566 or 733MHz Celeron processor.
A rugged air cooled version and a range of commercial/extended temperature versions are also available including a choice of operating system board support packages.
The VP 315/022-RC conduction cooled board operates at altitudes from -300 to 15,000m over -45 to +85C (no airflow) and the ruggedised design enables it to operate to a shock of 40g (11ms, half-sine), sine vibration 5g (5Hz-2kHz) and random vibration, 0.1g2/Hz (10Hz-1kHz) with -6dB/octave from 1 to 2kHz.
To operate at an extended temperature range, the processing capability of this board takes advantage of the Intel Pentium M processor, with benefits that includes low power operation at 1.2GHz, 64Kbyte L1 cache, 1Mbyte L2 cache, 400MHz front side bus, advanced branch prediction and speed-step capability.
The board's high performance 266MHz DDR memory and 533Mbyte/s peak bandwidth of the main PCI bus is made possible by using the low power Intel 855GME chipset and the Intel 6300ESB I/O controller hub.
Supporting two 64bit 66MHz PMC sites, with rear I/O, this high functionality board offers an extensive array of rear I/O features - graphics, keyboard, mouse, dual RS232/422/485, dual USB 2.0, dual Gigabit Ethernet, VITA 31.1, Serial ATA150 and EIDE interfaces.
Other functions available include a watchdog timer, long duration timer, 64 Mbytes of Application Flash memory and LAN boot firmware.
VITA 31.1 Gigabit Ethernet on a VME64x backplane enables a tried and tested method of implementing a LAN-based multiprocessor architecture by leveraging readily available Ethernet hardware, TCP/IP software, and clustering and other network management tools.
VITA 31.1 is the ANSI approved switched fabric standard for using standard off-the-shelf PICMG 2.16 switched fabric cards within a VME chassis.
Operating independently over an optional P0 connector, VITA 31.1 provides a 10/100 or Gigabit link between any VITA 31.1 compatible boards within the chassis.
Using standard networking techniques, it offers a simpler, more efficient method of remote booting boards within the chassis, and simplified intercommunication between boards, particularly where different operating systems and CPU architectures are being used within the same chassis.
It can also be used as a method of offloading tasks from the standard VME backplane, thereby improving overall application efficiency.
This would be particularly suitable for applications such as data acquisition, radar data processing, or applications requiring accurate time synchronisation across multiple boards within the system.
The VP 315/022-RC support many of today's leading operating systems, including VxWorks, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, RTX, QNX, Solaris and MS-DOS.
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