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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: VX 405/04x family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 July 2006
VME64x SBCs make the most of dual-core
processors
The VX 405/04x family of high-performance RoHS-compliant VME64x single board computers feature the latest low-power dual-core processors from the Intel embedded roadmap.
Concurrent Technologies has a new range of high-performance RoHS-compliant VME64x single board computers - the VX 405/04x family The boards feature the latest low power, dual core processors from the Intel embedded roadmap, (the 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo L2400 processor and the higher performance 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 processor) to ensure high-performance processing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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By using appropriate operating systems and applications software, a computing performance increase of up to twice an Intel Pentium M is achievable, and yet the Intel thermal design power (TDP) for the 2.0GHz dual core processor is 31W, compared with 27W TDP for the 2.0GHz Pentium M processor.
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To enable easy fast transfer of data between the VX 405/04x board and other components in the system there are two networking options available: dual 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet interfaces (via P2) or a VITA 41.3 interface (via P0) giving dual 1000Mbit/s baseband IEEE802.3 serial links onto a VXS backplane fabric.
A wide range of I/O is available: the front panel supports a 64bit 66MHz PMC (with XMC) and a third 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet interface, while both the front and rear panels support graphics, keyboard and mouse interfaces plus up to five USB 2.0 and two RS232/422 interfaces.
The remaining rear panel interfaces provided are EIDE, SATA150, stereo audio line in/out and 3.5in floppy disk.
Other features included are a watchdog timer, long duration timer, LAN boot firmware and options for an onboard 2.5in EIDE hard disk drive or dual CompactFlash EIDE storage.
Alternatively, there is provision to provide two 64bit 66MHz PMC sites, with front and rear I/O, by using an optional secondary PMC carrier board.
For ease of integration, the VX 405/04x family of boards support many of today's leading operating systems, including Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP Embedded, Windows XP, VxWorks and QNX.
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