Glen Fawcett, CEO of Concurrent Technologies commented: “This new high performance AMC processor board provides a marked improvement in performance/watt compared to a single-core Intel® Xeon® processor.  By using processors and chipsets from Intel’s embedded roadmap, we can ensure that the product will be available for at least 5 years after release – a very important requirement for the majority of our customer base, whether they are in the defense or telco market sectors.”

The AM 100/20x module supports the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor LV @ 2.0 GHz or the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor ULV @ 1.66 GHz. By using appropriate operating systems and applications software, a computing performance increase, for the same clock frequency, of up to two times a single-core Intel Xeon processor is achievable.  The Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor LV @ 2.0 GHz (667MHz FSB, 2MB shared L2 cache) is 31W versus 35W TDP for the single-core LV Intel Xeon processor @ 2.0 GHz (400MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache); the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor ULV @ 1.66 GHz (667MHz FSB, 2MB shared L2 cache) with a TDP of 15W gives a remarkable increase in performance/watt.

To enhance overall memory and I/O performance the AM 100/20x utilizes the Intel 3100 chipset.  The Intel 3100 chipset, a single chip embedded server chipset, interfaces up to 16 GBytes DDR2-400 ECC memory with a peak memory bandwidth of 3.2 Gigabytes/s. 

“For military, defense and telco applications, the combination of the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor LV and the Intel 3100 chipset is maximizing energy efficient performance for thermally dense computing environments like the AMC market segment,” says Rose Schooler, Director of Marketing, Intel Infrastructure Processor Division.   “For thirty years Intel has been continuously supporting the embedded market segment, and Concurrent Technologies is utilizing the benefits of embedded Intel architecture to bring innovation and long term stability to this leading edge standards-based form factor.”

The AM 100/20x is designed in compliance to AMC.0 (including full hot swap and IPMI capabilities), AMC.1 Type 8 (PCI Express x8), AMC.2 Type E2 (2x Gigabit Ethernet) and AMC.3 Type S2 (4x Serial ATA150 ports).  The module also features a graphics interface, four USB 2.0 ports and two RS232 ports.

For ease of integration, many of today’s leading operating systems are supported including Linux®, Windows® 2000, Windows® Server 2003, Windows® XP, Windows® XP Embedded and QNX®.