SBCs are suited to data storage applications

Concurrent Technologies has introduced a range of low-power, 3U CompactPCI single board computers (SBC), supporting the Intel 1.8GHz or 1.6GHz Pentium M, or the Intel 1.0GHz Celeron M processors.

Concurrent Technologies has introduced a range of high performance, low-power, 3U CompactPCI single board computers (SBC), supporting the Intel 1.8GHz or 1.6GHz Pentium M, or the Intel 1.0GHz Celeron M processors.

The TP 30x/32x family combines the performance of the Pentium M processor with the Intel 855GME GMCH chipset and up to 1Gbyte of soldered 333MHz DDR SDRAM.

Additional features include dual EIDE ATA100, dual serial ATA150, dual Gigabit Ethernet, stereo audio and graphics interfaces.

The TP 30x/32x embraces all of the benefits of the 3U form factor, and the board is hot-swap capable.

The feature set of this family of boards makes them ideally suited to applications within the transportation, industrial-control, automation, scientific, telemetry, defense, security and aerospace markets.

For harsher applications, operation over -40 to +85C or -25 to +70C temperature ranges is supported using the 1.0GHz Celeron M processor.

"As a 3U CompactPCI SBC, the TP 30x/32x family is ideally suited to control or data storage applications by including dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and on-board high performance hard disk interfaces through the onboard EIDE ATA100, external serial ATA150, or both", said Jane Annear, Commercial Director for Concurrent Technologies.

"And our choice of a low-power chipset, along with on-board soldered memory, allows us to offer extended temperature variants of boards for many defense, transportation and industrial applications".

The TP 302/321 supports the 1.8GHz Pentium M processor 745 (2 Mbytes L2 cache), the TP 300/322 supports the 1.6GHz Pentium M processor (1 Mbyte L2 cache) and the TP 300/321 supports the 1.0GHz Celeron M processor ULV 373 (512 Kbyte L2 cache).

One core benefit of the Intel Pentium M processor is that the user's software can control the speed of the processor to allow tuning of the power/performance ratio.

Either 512Mbyte or 1Gbyte of 333MHz DDR SDRAM is soldered to the board, while maintaining a single 3U CompactPCI slot.

Most of the I/O capability is provided by the Intel 6300ESB ICH.

For fast external control and data paths, the TP 30x/32x family supports four high-speed USB 2.0 ports and four RS232 (including one RS232/422) ports along with the on-board Intel 82546GB Ethernet controller to sustain data-rates of up to 4Gbit/s via the two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.

The CompactPCI control/data plane throughput can operate at 33/66MHz backplane PCI signalling speeds.

For embedded applications the board supports, as standard, an on-board CompactFlash socket via the EIDE ATA100 interface.

In a two-slot configuration there is an option to install an onboard 2.5in EIDE hard disk drive.

A 2048 x 1536 front panel graphics interface, is implemented using the Intel 855GME GMCH, and includes a 1400 x 1050 rear panel DVI-D interface.

Other features provided are keyboard and mouse interface, PC real-time clock, watchdog timer and legacy speaker interface.

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

Line level stereo audio I/O pairs and MIC input are supported on the transition module.

The TP 300/32x and TP 302/32x support many of today's leading operating systems, including Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP Embedded, VxWorks and QNX.

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