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January 2005 – Concurrent
Technologies increased their range of single slot, high performance, low
power, VME based single board computers (SBC) utilizing the Intel®
Pentium® M processor. The VP 325/02x supports the 1.6 GHz processor (1
Mbyte L2 cache) and the VP 327/02x supports either the 1.8 GHz or 1.4
GHz processor (2 Mbytes L2 cache). Using the Intel® 855GME GMCH, the
processor can access up to 2 Gbytes of 333 MHz DDR ECC SDRAM (minimum
512Mbytes soldered). Utilizing the Intel® 6300ESB ICH feature set, this
SBC’s I/O capability includes four RS232, four USB 2.0, graphics, stereo
audio, dual Gigabit Ethernet, dual EIDE ATA100 and dual Serial ATA150
interfaces, plus a 66MHz PMC site. For harsher applications, using the
1.4 GHz low voltage processor, operation over -40°C to +85°C or over
-25°C to +70°C is supported. Applications include defense, security,
industrial-control, telecoms, telemetry, scientific, and aerospace
markets. “As a single slot VME SBC,
the VP 32x/02x family supports a variety of industry standard serial
interfaces and high performance Serial ATA and EIDE hard disk
interfaces, therefore the board is ideally suited to applications such
as command and control or data processing.” said Jane Annear, Commercial
Director for Concurrent Technologies, “Our choice of a low power
chipset, along with on-board soldered memory, allows us to offer
extended temperature variants of the board for the defense and
industrial markets.”
Concurrent Technologies recognize a need
for high-speed data exchange, processing and storage in a distributed or
localized application. The VP 32x/02x supports four high-speed USB 2.0
ports and four RS232 ports along with the on-board Intel 82546GB
controller to sustain data-rates of up to 4 Gigabits/sec via the two
Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. To cater for a range of embedded
applications, by using the EIDE ATA100 interface, there are options to
install an on-board EIDE 2.5-inch disk drive or CompactFlash™/Hitachi
GST Microdrive™ carrier, all within a single slot.
A 2048 x 1536 graphics interface,
including rear panel DVI-D and front panel VGA support, is implemented
using the Intel® 855GME GMCH. Other features provided are printer,
keyboard and mouse interfaces, floppy disk interface, PC real-time
clock, watchdog timer and legacy speaker interface. Line level stereo
audio I/O pairs are supported via the P2 connector. For applications
requiring rear I/O connections, a transition module is provided with the
board.
The VP 325/02x and VP 327/02x support
many of today’s leading operating systems, including VxWorks®, Linux®,
Windows® 2000, Windows NT®, Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, RTX®,
Solaris™, LynxOS®, QNX® and MS-DOS®. LAN boot firmware is included with
the BIOS. |