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January 2006 -
Concurrent Technologies announce their new lead-free, high performance,
Pentium M based, Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC® or AMC)
processor module suitable for AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA and
proprietary platforms. The PR AMC/33x is a single width full height AMC
processor module supporting the 2.0 GHz Intel® Pentium®
M processor 760. To enhance overall memory and I/O performance the PR
AMC/33x supports the Intel® E7520 server chipset. The E7520
interfaces up to 2GBytes soldered DDR2-400 ECC memory giving a peak
memory bandwidth of 3.2 Gigabytes/s. To provide a higher MTBF and
improve cooling, all components are soldered including the memory and
processor. The PR AMC/33x 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 (2x Serial ATA150
ports). The module also features two USB 2.0 ports, two RS232 ports and
1 Mbyte Application Flash. The PR AMC/33x is designed for use in
AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA or proprietary applications such as wireless base
stations, security, test and measurement systems, Voice over IP,
media-servers or blade-servers. With this range of applications in mind,
the PR AMC/33x supports a variety of industry standard operating
systems.
The AdvancedMC (AMC)
specification is ratified by PICMG® to be compatible with the
current AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and the new MicroTCA system architectures.
The AMC concept provides a system integrator with a modular approach
that is scalable, cost effective, fabric based, and hot swappable. The
modules are designed according to a series of AMC.x specifications -
where AMC.0 defines the form-factor, connector, power and thermal
characteristics, management, clocking and base fabric, AMC.1 maps PCI
Express onto the extended fabric interface, AMC.2 defines Ethernet
ports, AMC.3 defines mass storage ports and AMC.4 defines Serial RapidIO.
The 2.0 GHz
Intel Pentium M processor 760, based on 90nm process technology,
provides a remarkable performance versus power dissipation ratio. The
processor supports a 533MHz Front Side Bus, 2 MBytes L2 cache with an
Enhanced Data Pre-fetcher, merges CPU operations with Micro-Ops Fusion,
and has Advanced Instruction Prediction of program branches, Dedicated
Stack Manager in hardware, Intelligent Power Distribution (clock gating
based on program demand), Deep(er) Sleep Alert States and Enhanced Intel
SpeedStep® technology. The Intel® E7520 includes
three 8x PCI Express links and a DDR2-400 memory interface to help
increase I/O bandwidth and reduce system latency for data-intensive
applications. Each PCI Express link supports up to 4 Gbytes/s per link
and the DDR2-400 memory compared to DDR-333 memory provides up to 20%
increase in memory bandwidth, and up to 40% decrease in power
consumption.
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,
QNX® and VxWorks®. |
