The PP 410/03x board supports the 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 (in a socket) or the 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo L2400 processor (soldered); both processors support 2 Mbytes L2 cache (shared between the cores). By using appropriate operating systems and applications software, a computing performance increase of up to twice an Intel® Pentium® M processor is achievable, and yet the Intel Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the 2.0 GHz dual core processor is 31W versus 27W TDP for the 2.0 GHz Intel® Pentium® M processor 760.  The Intel® E7520 server class chipset and Intel® 6300ESB ICH are used to complement the processor to achieve a high performance, yet low power, core architecture.

"The combination of the Intel Core Duo processors and the Intel E7520 chipset provides a perfect performance upgrade path to our existing server class CompactPCI product line," commented Glen Fawcett, CEO, Concurrent Technologies.  "Intel continues to provide an excellent, long term road map for processors and chipsets. We believe this combination will be particularly well received in high-end communications applications where enhanced I/O capability is required as well as superior CPU performance."

As an intelligent PMC carrier with dual PMC sites, the PP 410/03x is ideally suited to intensive I/O or data applications. Each PMC site is controlled via its own PCI bus. PMC site 2 supports up to 100MHz PCI-X operation and supports a x8 PCI Express™ XMC interface. PMC site 1 supports up to 66MHz PCI operation. As well as front I/O, the PMC I/O connector signals from both PMC sites are routed to the rear connectors (J4 is not fitted).

A wide range of onboard I/O is available: the board supports three 10/100/1000Mps Ethernet interfaces (one front and two rear) and the front panel also supports a USB 2.0, RS 232, graphics, keyboard and mouse interfaces. As well as dual PMC rear I/O, the rear panel supports three more USB 2.0, up to two more RS-232, two SATA150, stereo audio line in/out, parallel printer port and 3.5-inch floppy disk interfaces. Other features included are a watchdog timer, long duration timer, LAN boot firmware and options for an onboard 2.5-inch EIDE hard disk drive and/or CompactFlash™ EIDE storage.  For applications requiring rear I/O connections a variety of transition modules are also available.

For ease of integration, the PP 410/03x family of boards support many of today’s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® Server 2003, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, VxWorks® and QNX®.