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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: PP 312/01x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 March 2005
cPCI board upgrades to latest Pentium M
Concurrent Technologies now supports the latest Intel Pentium M processor 760 as part of the upgrade path for its established PP 312/01x CompactPCI board.
Concurrent Technologies now supports the latest Intel Pentium M processor 760, running at 2.0GHz with 533MHz front side bus (FSB), as part of the upgrade path for its established PP 312/01x CompactPCI board The PP 312/01x, a dual PMC host board, also supports the Intel Pentium M processor 745, running at 1.8GHz with 400MHz FSB
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PP 312/01x, a single slot board, will support up to 2Gbyte DDR SDRAM and as well as two PMC sites with front and rear I/O, the PP 312/01x supports dual Gigabit Ethernet, PICMG 2.16 (Ethernet fabric), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap).
The PP 312/01x can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral board or as a satellite board (blade) and to date it has been used in a wide range of applications within the telecommunications markets.
The Intel Pentium M processors 760 and 745 are on 90nm process technology and provide remarkable performance to power-dissipation ratio.
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Single-slot 6U CompactPCI processor board uses the latest high performance mobile dual core processor from the Intel embedded roadmap.
Mezzanine card supports dual displays
High-resolution XMC graphics adapter supports a variety of digital flat panel or analogue CRT devices in single- or dual-display configurations.
These processors have 2Mbyte L2 cache with an enhanced data prefetcher, merge CPU operations with micro-ops fusion, and have advanced instruction prediction of program branches, a dedicated stack manager in hardware, intelligent power distribution (clock gating based on program demand), deep(er) sleep alert states and enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology.
For increased reliability, heatsinks are used instead of fans for cooling the processor.
As an intelligent PMC carrier with dual 64bit 66MHz PMC sites, the PP 312/01x is ideally suited to intensive I/O or data applications.
Each site supports 3.3 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 fitted).
Plus, for faster CompactPCI control/data plane throughput the PP 312/01x 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 onboard EIDE 2.5in disk drive or CompactFlash/Microdrive carrier, both within a single slot.
Other features available are dual 10BaseT/100Base-TX/1000BaseT 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 312/01x supports many of today's leading operating systems, including Linux, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, VxWorks, Solaris and QNX.
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