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News Release from: Concurrent Technologies | Subject: AM 600/20x
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 April 2007
Mezzanine module brings mass storage
onboard
AdvancedMC mass storage module brings dual hard disk or solid-state drive support to AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA systems.
Concurrent Technologies has released an AdvancedMC (AMC) mass storage module supporting either two 2.5in Serial ATA hard disk drives (HDD) or two CompactFlash drives - RAID 0 and RAID 1 support is also available The AM 600/20x is designed to add user definable mass storage drives into a double-width full-size or mid-size AMC slot in a system, such as MicroTCA, where functionality, power, space and cost are key elements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AM 600/20x AMC form factor is compatible with the open-standards AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA system architectures.
Applications include telecommunications, defence, aerospace and medical markets.
The two onboard 2.5in Serial ATA hard disk drives connect directly to the AMC.3 Type S2 (port 2 and port 3) connections in the AM 600/20x's common options region.
There are also options to fit a single hard disk drive or enable the system integrator to fit their own drives.
The Serial ATA interface supports transfer rates up to 150Mbyte/s per drive.
The interface is also compatible with RAID 0 and RAID 1 systems; complex RAID systems can be supported with multiple boards.
Alternatively there is the option for two onboard CompactFlash sites.
Both sites connect, via Serial ATA to Parallel ATA interfaces, to the AMC.3 Type S2 (port 2 and port 3) connections in the AM 600/20x's common options region.
The interface transfer rates depend on the access speed of the CompactFlash module fitted, typically up to 33Mbytes/s.
The AM 600/20x is designed in compliance to AMC.0 (including full hot swap and IPMI capabilities) and can operate with an appropriate single board computer AMC module like the Concurrent Technologies' PR AMC/33x AMC Intel Pentium M processor module or the AM 100/20x AMC dual-core Intel Xeon processor module.
The AM 600/20x is compatible with all major commercial or embedded operating systems.
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