Pentium-based SBC features energy-saving design

The PCI-956 slot SBC is a new PICMG 1.0 compatible board equipped with an Intel Pentium M760 and the mobile Intel 915GM Express chipset.

The PCI-956 slot SBC is a new PICMG 1.0 compatible board equipped with an Intel Pentium M760 and the mobile Intel 915GM Express chipset.

This board's attractive features include its energy-saving design, assured long-term availability, and CRT and LVDS graphics based on the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 architecture integrated into the chipset.

The Celeron M320 at 1.3GHz is offered as an alternative to the Intel Pentium M at 2.13GHz.

The SO-DIMM slot manages up to 2Gbyte of DDR2-SDRAM.

Available interfaces include six USB 2.0 ports, Fast Ethernet, two serial ports, and one parallel port.

Additional interfaces can be implemented as needed by the customer via the mini-PCI connector.

Storage media are connected by four fast SATA150 and two UltraDMA/33/66/100 EIDE interfaces, as well as an optional CompactFlash adapter.

Besides industrial applications, the board would typically be used in datacommunications, data storage, server applications, image processing, and medical industries.

A variety of in-house expansion assemblies are available for the mini-PCI slot, ranging from dual Ethernet, FireWire and WLAN to Bluetooth and analogue modems and SCSI adapters, which makes the customer-specific design of the slot SBC particularly flexible.

The PICMG 1.0-compliant full-size slot SBC communicates via passive backplanes with expansion assemblies over the PCI (32bit/33MHz) and ISA buses.

Software support is offered for Windows XP, XP Server, and 2000, as well as Linux.

The PCI-956 has an almost identical feature set to the PCI-955, which was introduced in the spring of 2005 but the 64bit/66MHz PCI, gigabit Ethernet, DVI and audio functions, which are still rather expensive, were left out in order to be able to offer the high processor performance at a particularly reasonable price.

Therefore, if this assembly reaches the limits of its performance, there is an alternative already available.

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