Press Release:

- Extended Temperature CompactPCI^® Dual PMC Host Board using the 1.1 GHz Intel^® Pentium^® M processor

March 2004 - Concurrent Technologies has extended the operating temperature of their recently released single slot CompactPCI^® dual PMC host board. The PP 310/011-E supports the 1.1 GHz Intel^® Pentium^® M processor, with up to 2 Gbytes of DDR ECC SDRAM, operating over a -25°C to +70°C temperature range. As well as two PMC sites with front and rear I/O, the PP 310/011-E supports dual Gigabit Ethernet, PICMG^® 2.16 (Packet Switching Backplane), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap). The PP 310/011-E 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 1.1 GHz Intel Pentium M processor with a 400MHz front side bus, 1 Mbyte of high-speed secondary (L2) on-die cache, in an FC-BGA package. 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 310/011-E 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 310/011-E can auto-configure (on insertion or power-up) within a system operating at 66MHz backplane PCI signaling speeds.

To cater for embedded applications there is 32 Mbytes of Application Flash memory. For a wider range of applications there is an EIDE interface (up to Ultra-DMA100), with an installed EIDE option for a CompactFlash™ carrier 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 310/011-E supports many of today’s leading operating systems, including VxWorks^®, Linux^®, Windows^® 2000, Windows NT^®, Windows^® XP, Windows^® XP Embedded and QNX^®.

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