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News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: Kontron CP6014
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 March 2008
Processor board squeezes in eight
processors
The Kontron CP6014 CompactPCI processor board suits storage, wireless infrastructure, security, voice and the medical markets.
The Kontron CP6014 is a 6U CompactPCI processor board featuring two 45nm quad-core Intel Xeon L5408 processors complemented by the power-optimised Intel 5100 Memory Controller Hub (MCH) chipset and Intel I/O Controller Hub 9R Having eight processor cores on one board now opens up new market opportunities, providing new and existing CompactPCI customers with system upgrade opportunities
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Taken in conjunction with the advantages of Virtualisation software, the Kontron CP6014 can now address new data-intensive applications such as video recognition and medical imaging.
Benoit Robert, Executive Director, Product Management at Kontron said "Four years ago, the industry was at the limit of the CompactPCI 2.16 standard".
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"But now with the dense design of the energy efficient 45nm Intel processors, the Kontron CP6014 truly unlocks new potential applications that existing technologies have not been able to address until today".
"The ultra-dense, quad-core Intel Xeon processor L5408 and the Intel 5100 MCH chipset provide an ideal platform to create higher performance, lower power embedded systems in a smaller form factor", says Joe Jensen, General Manager, Embedded Computing Division, Intel.
"Developers can now use CompactPCI processor boards, such as the Kontron CP6014, for new processing demanding applications such as video recognition, data communications and many others".
Kontron clients can upgrade to extend the life of deployed systems and diversify into new markets.
A CompactPCI 2.16 platform with 10 CPCI single-core, single-slot boards could be reduced to one, dual-slot quad-core board.
Conversely, clients may configure a super computer with up to seven quad-core processor boards for extremely data hungry applications.
The quad-core Intel Xeon processor L5408 interfaces to the baseboard via the 771 land socket and is based on 45nm technology, which reduces power consumption, increases switching speed and significantly increases transistor density over the previous 65nm technology.
The L5408 has a power envelope of 40W and supports a core frequency of 2.13GHz, a front side bus of 1066MHz and an on-die L2 cache of 12Mbyte (2x6 Mbyte).
The Kontron CP6014 is an 8HP dual-slot solution designed with a multitude of onboard IO functionality.
To eliminate the bottleneck of a parallel bus structure, the Kontron CP6014 supports a local PCI-X 64bit/133MHz on PMC-slot or a PCIExpress X4 on the XMC.
For faster memory performance, Kontron's 6U CompactPCI board supports up to 32Gbyte DDR2 memory (four DIMMs sockets) at 533/667MHz and Intel I/O acceleration technology (Intel I/OAT) DMA for fast data transfer.
There is also a VGA interface and a VGA controller on a PCI-E bus ATI M72 that supports CRT.
For clients to accomplish more without a comparable increase in power consumption, the Kontron CP6014 takes full advantage of the Intel 5100 MCH chipset which contains two main components: the memory controller hub (MCH) for the host bridge and the Intel 82801IR I/O controller (ICH9R) for the I/O subsystem.
The CP6014 uses onboard Flash, provides six SATAS ports onboard (mezzanine and rear I/O), two COMs RS232 (one front and one rear I/O), three USB 2.0 ports (one front and two rear I/O), dual 1Mbyte BIOS Flash (FWH) and support for IPMI V1.5 implementation.
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