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July 2006 –
Concurrent Technologies announces its latest range of high performance
RoHS compliant VME64x single board computers (SBC) - the VX 405/04x
family. The boards feature the latest low power, dual core processors
from the Intel® embedded roadmap, (the 1.66 GHz Intel® Core™ Duo L2400
processor and the higher performance 2.0 GHz Intel® Core™ Duo T2500
processor) to ensure high performance processing. The VXS switched
serial standard - VITA 41.3 - is optionally supported to provide fast
data transfer between other compatible boards in the system. This
combination of high performance data processing and a wealth of I/O
ensure that the boards are ideal for intensive computing applications
within the defense, security, telemetry, industrial control, scientific,
and aerospace markets. Extended temperature variants are also
available.
The VX 405/04x 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 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 Pentium M
processor. The Mobile Intel® 945GM Express chipset and Intel® ICH7-M
are used to complement the processor to achieve a low power, yet high
performance core design. Up to 4 Gbytes of soldered 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
can be installed on the boards.
To enable easy fast transfer of data between the VX 405/04x board and
other components in the system there are two networking options
available: dual 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet interfaces (via P2) or a VITA
41.3 interface (via P0) giving dual 1000Mbps baseband IEEE 802.3 serial
links onto a VXS backplane fabric.
A wide range of I/O is available: the front panel supports a 64-bit
66MHz PMC (with XMC) and a third 10/100/1000Mps Ethernet interface,
while both the front and rear panels support graphics, keyboard and
mouse interfaces plus up to 5 USB 2.0 and 2 RS-232/422 interfaces. The
remaining rear panel interfaces provided are EIDE, SATA150, stereo audio
line in/out and 3.5-inch floppy disk. 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 or dual CompactFlash™ EIDE
storage. Alternatively, there is provision to provide 2 64-bit 66MHz
PMC sites, with front and rear I/O, by using an optional secondary PMC
carrier board.
For ease of integration, the VX 405/04x family of boards support many of
today’s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® 2000,
Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, VxWorks® and QNX®. |
