Press Release:

- Rugged Conduction Cooled VME based Pentium M SBC supports Dual PMC Sites and VITA 31.1

January 2005 – Concurrent Technologies announces a ruggedized conduction cooled VME single board computer supporting dual PMC sites and utilizing the Intel® Pentium® M processor. The VP 315/022-RC supports a Pentium M (with 1 Mbyte L2 cache) operating at 1.2 GHz. Utilizing the Intel® 855GME chipset the board supports 1 Gbyte of soldered 266 MHz DDR ECC DRAM. And with two 66 MHz PMC sites, connected via the Intel® 6300ESB I/O Controller Hub, this single slot board includes extensive rear I/O functionality in addition to VITA 31.1 Gigabit Ethernet via the VME64x backplane. The board is aimed at harsh applications within the defense, industrial control and transportation markets. A rugged air cooled version and a range of commercial/extended temperature versions are also available including a choice of operating system board support packages.

The VP 315/022-RC conduction cooled board operates at altitudes of –1000 feet to 50,000 feet over -40°C to +85°C (no airflow) and the ruggedized design enables it to operate to a shock of 40g (11ms, half-sine), sine vibration 5g (5Hz-2KHz) and random vibration, 0.1g2/Hz (10Hz-1KHz) with -6dB/octave from 1KHz to 2KHz.

To operate at an extended temperature range, the processing capability of this board takes advantage of the Intel Pentium M processor, with benefits that includes low power operation at 1.2 GHz, 64 Kbytes L1 cache, 1 Mbyte L2 cache, 400 MHz Front Side Bus, advanced branch prediction and speed-step capability. The board’s high performance 266 MHz DDR memory and 533 Mbytes/sec peak bandwidth of the main PCI bus is made possible by utilizing the low power Intel® 855GME chipset and the Intel® 6300ESB I/O Controller Hub.

Supporting two 64-bit 66 MHz PMC sites, with rear I/O, this high functionality board offers an extensive array of rear I/O features – graphics, keyboard, mouse, 2 x RS-232/422/485, 2 x USB 2.0, dual Gigabit Ethernet, VITA 31.1, Serial ATA150 and EIDE interfaces. Other functions available include a watchdog timer, long duration timer, 64 Mbytes of Application Flash memory and LAN boot firmware. 

VITA 31.1 Gigabit Ethernet on a VME64x backplane enables a tried and tested method of implementing a LAN-based multiprocessor architecture by leveraging readily available Ethernet hardware, TCP/IP software, and clustering and other network management tools.  VITA 31.1 is the ANSI approved switched fabric standard for using standard off-the-shelf PICMG® 2.16 switched fabric cards within a VME chassis. Operating independently over an optional P0 connector, VITA 31.1 provides a 10/100Mbps or 1000Mbps link between any VITA 31.1 compatible boards within the chassis.  Using standard networking techniques, it offers a simpler, more efficient method of remote booting boards within the chassis, and simplified intercommunication between boards, particularly where different operating systems and CPU architectures are being used within the same chassis.  It can also be used as a method of offloading tasks from the standard VME backplane, thereby improving overall application efficiency. This would be particularly suitable for applications such as data acquisition, radar data processing, or applications requiring accurate time synchronization across multiple boards within the system.

The VP 315/022-RC support many of today’s leading operating systems, including VxWorks, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, RTX, QNX, Solaris, and MS-DOS.

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