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VME/VXS Open Standards SBC utilizes Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor

January 2007 - Concurrent Technologies announces the release of an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor based VME/VXS single board computer (SBC) as a performance upgrade from the VX 405/04x released earlier in the year.  The VX 407/04x uses the latest mobile dual core processor from the Intel® embedded roadmap, the 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor, giving an even greater improvement in measured performance/watt.  The VX 407/04x can access up to 4 Gbytes DDR2-667 soldered SDRAM at up to 10.6 Gbytes/s.  The VXS switched serial standard - VITA 41.3 (1000Mbps baseband IEEE802.3) - 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.

The VX 407/04x board supports the 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor (in a socket) with 4 Mbytes L2 cache (shared between the cores).  By using appropriate operating systems and applications software, a computing performance increase of at least twice an Intel® Pentium® M processor is achievable, and yet the Intel Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the 2.16 GHz dual core processor is 34W versus 27W TDP for the single core 2.0 GHz Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 (with 2 Mbytes L2 cache).  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.

To enable easy fast transfer of data between the VX 407/04x board and other components in the system there are two networking options available: dual 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet interfaces (via P2) or an optional VITA 41.3 interface (via VXS P0) giving dual 1000Mbps baseband IEEE 802.3 serial links onto a VXS backplane fabric. For VXS users, Concurrent Technologies has a VXS VITA 41.3 (1000Mbps baseband IEEE802.3) switched serial board available.

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 two 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 407/04x family of boards support many of today’s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, VxWorks® and QNX®.

 
 

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  VXS VITA 41.3 Technical Notes
The VITA 41.3 standard defines an implementation of IEEE Standard 802.3 within the VXS framework that provides 1000Mbps full-duplex data transfer over two differential pairs using 8B/10B encoding and baseband signaling.  This implementation is based on 1000BaseCX as defined in IEEE Standard 802.3- 2002, Clause 39 and is referred to as 1000Mbps baseband IEEE 802.3 signaling.  VITA 41.3 is useful for both data and control planes in medium-performance applications that follow a packet-based communications model – system determinism is improved as no data transfer on a specific payload link will be interrupted by a higher priority transfer or have to wait for a bus transaction to complete before acquiring the communications hardware.  VITA 41.3 is attractive because of the wide range of readily available low-cost hardware and software that has been developed using the IEEE 802.3 standard.
 
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