Dual-core designs advance cPCI performance

Single-slot 6U CompactPCI embedded computers are powered by the newest mobile dual-core processors from the Intel embedded roadmap.

The latest range of single-slot 6U CompactPCI embedded computers from Concurrent Technologies applies the newest mobile dual-core processors from the Intel embedded roadmap.

The PP 432/05x board supports the 2.16 or 1.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and the PP 430/05x board supports the 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor.

Each board can access up to 4Gbyte of DDR2-400 ECC SDRAM (dual SODIMM).

For I/O flexibility there are two PMC/XMC sites supporting both front and rear I/O, plus three SATA drives, three RS232s, four USB 2.0s and four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.

The board also supports PICMG 2.16 (Ethernet fabric), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap).

All boards can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral board or as a satellite board (blade).

This combination of high performance data processing and a wealth of I/O ensure that this family is ideal for a wide range of applications within the telecommunications, defence, security, telemetry, aerospace, medical and scientific markets.

Extended temperature variants are also available.

The PP 432/05x board supports the 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor (in a socket) or the 1.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo L7400 (soldered) - both with 4Mbyte of L2 cache (shared between the cores).

The PP 430/05x board supports the 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processor T2500 (in a socket) with 2Mbyte L2 cache (shared between the cores).

The Intel 3100 server class embedded chipset, combining both memory and I/O controllers in a single chip, complement the dual-core processor to achieve a high performance, yet low power, core architecture.

Depending on the operating systems and applications software used, a computing performance increase of up to twice an Intel Pentium M processor is achievable.

The Intel Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the 2.0GHz dual core processor is 31W versus 27W TDP for the single core 2.0GHz Intel Pentium M processor 760 (both with 2Mbyte L2 cache) thus demonstrating an even greater improvement in measured performance per watt in a single (4HP) 6U slot.

As an embedded board with dual PMC sites, the PP 43x/05x is ideally suited to intensive I/O or data applications.

Each PMC site is controlled via its own PCIbus; PMC site 1 supports up to 100MHz 3.3V PCI-X and PMC site 2 supports 33MHz 3.3V/5V PCI operation; each site supports a PCI Express XMC interface.

As well as front I/O, the PMC I/O connector signals from both PMC sites are routed to the rear connectors.

Additionally, a wide range of onboard I/O is available to the user: the board supports four 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet interfaces (two front and two rear) and the front panel also supports two USB 2.0 ports with an onboard header for an RS232 interface.

As well as dual PMC rear I/O, the rear panel supports a further two USB 2.0 interfaces, up to three more RS232 channels, two SATA150 interfaces plus an optional parallel printer port and 3.5in floppy interfaces.

Other features included are a watchdog timer, long duration timer, LAN boot firmware and options for an onboard 2.5in SATA150 hard disk drive and/or CompactFlash EIDE storage.

For applications requiring rear I/O connections a variety of transition modules are also available, including support for PIM modules.

For ease of integration, the PP 43x/05x family supports many of today's leading operating systems, including Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows XP Embedded, Windows XP, QNX, Solaris and VxWorks.

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