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November 2003
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Concurrent
Technologies is pleased to announce their single slot Pentium
M based CompactPCI dual PMC Host board. The PP 310/01x
supports the 1.6GHz Intel® Pentium M processor with
up to 2 Gbytes 200MHz DDR ECC SDRAM. To give better I/O
performance, and for lower power consumption, Concurrent
Technologies chose the ServerWorks™
GC-LE chipset. As well as two PMC sites with front and rear
I/O, the PP 310/01x supports dual Gigabit Ethernet (via a
PCI-X bus), PICMG® 2.16 (Packet Switching
Backplane), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap). The PP
310/01x can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral
board or as a satellite board (blade) and is front and rear
plug compatible with Concurrent Technologies’ popular PP
110/01x family.
At the core
of the design is the low power 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M
Processor in a FC-PGA package with 1 Mbyte of high-speed
secondary (L2) on-die cache. Designed for scalability, the PP
310/01x will support faster versions of the processors as they
become available. For increased reliability heat sinks are
used in preference to fans for cooling the processor.
As an
intelligent PMC carrier with dual 64-bit 66MHz PMC sites, the
PP 310/01x is ideally suited to intensive I/O or data
applications. Each site supports 3.3V or 5V PCI signaling and
is available for user modules, standard PMC or PrPMC modules.
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 used).
Plus, for faster CompactPCI control/data plane throughput the
PP 310/01x can auto-configure, on insertion/power-up, in a
system operating at 66MHz backplane PCI signaling speeds.
To cater
for embedded applications there is 32 Mbytes of Application
Flash memory and 512 Kbytes of battery backed SRAM. For a
wider range of applications there is an EIDE interface (up to
Ultra-DMA100), with installed EIDE options for an on-board
EIDE 2.5-inch disk drive or CompactFlash™/IBM®
(Hitachi) Microdrive™ carrier, both within a single slot.
Other features available are dual 10baseT/100base-TX/1000baseT
Ethernet interfaces, graphics interface,
keyboard/mouse interface, floppy disk interface, 3 RS232
serial channels, 1 USB port, parallel printer port, PC
real-time clock, watchdog timer and long duration timer. LAN
boot firmware is included as well. For applications requiring
rear I/O connections a transition module is available.
For ease of
integration, the PP 310/01x supports many of today’s leading
operating systems, including VxWorks®, Linux®,
Windows® 2000, Windows NT®,
Windows® XP Embedded and QNX®.
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