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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: PR AMC/33x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2006
Mezzanine card boosts processing
performance
A new lead-free high-performance Pentium M based Advanced Mezzanine Card processor module is suitable for AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA and proprietary platforms.
Concurrent Technologies has a new lead-free high-performance Pentium M based Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC or AMC) processor module suitable for AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA and proprietary platforms The PR AMC/33x is a single width full height AMC processor module supporting the 2.0GHz Intel Pentium M processor 760
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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To enhance overall memory and I/O performance the PR AMC/33x supports the Intel E7520 server chipset.
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To provide a higher MTBF and improve cooling, all components are soldered including the memory and processor.
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The PR AMC/33x is designed in compliance to AMC.0 (including full hot swap and IPMI capabilities), AMC.1 Type 8 (PCI Express x8), AMC.2 Type E2 (two Gigabit Ethernet) and AMC.3 Type S2 (two Serial ATA150 ports).
The module also features two USB 2.0 ports, two RS232 ports and 1Mbyte application Flash.
The PR AMC/33x is designed for use in AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA or proprietary applications such as wireless basestations, security, test and measurement systems, Voice over IP, media servers or blade servers.
With this range of applications in mind, the PR AMC/33x supports a variety of industry standard operating systems.
The AdvancedMC (AMC) specification is ratified by PICMG to be compatible with the current AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and the new MicroTCA system architectures.
The AMC concept provides a system integrator with a modular approach that is scalable, cost effective, fabric based, and hot swappable.
The modules are designed according to a series of AMC.x specifications - where AMC.0 defines the form-factor, connector, power and thermal characteristics, management, clocking and base fabric, AMC.1 maps PCI Express onto the extended fabric interface, AMC.2 defines Ethernet ports, AMC.3 defines mass storage ports and AMC.4 defines Serial RapidIO.
The 2.0GHz Intel Pentium M processor 760, based on 90nm process technology, provides a remarkable performance versus power dissipation ratio.
The processor supports a 533MHz Front Side Bus, 2 MBytes L2 cache with an enhanced data prefetcher, merges CPU operations with micro-ops fusion, and has advanced instruction prediction of program branches, dedicated stack manager in hardware, intelligent power distribution (clock gating based on program demand), deep(er) sleep alert states and enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology.
The Intel E7520 includes three 8x PCI Express links and a DDR2-400 memory interface to help increase I/O bandwidth and reduce system latency for data-intensive applications.
Each PCI Express link supports up to 4Gbyte/s per link and the DDR2-400 memory compared with DDR-333 memory provides up to 20% increase in memory bandwidth, and up to 40% reduction in power consumption.
For ease of integration, many of today's leading operating systems are supported including Linux, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, QNX and VxWorks.
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