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Concurrent Technologies: VME board benefits from ultra-low power 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor

Publication date on this website: 12/03/2009

Category: Boards

Company: Concurrent Technologies

Summary:

Concurrent Technologies introduces their first ultra-low power VME critical embedded single board computer based on an Intel® Atom processor with a power consumption of under 20W. The board uses the 1.6 GHz Intel® Atom™ processor N270 and the Intel® 945GSE Express chipset both from the Intel® embedded roadmap, ensuring long term availability. With 2 Gbytes DDR2-533 SDRAM this ultra-low power board also supports a variety of peripheral I/O ports, Flash drive, CompactFlash™ site and PMC/XMC modules. Commercial and extended temperature versions are now available and ruggedized, conduction-cooled or air-cooled (to VITA 47), versions will be available shortly. The VP A45/01x VME SBC is well suited to ultra-low power applications for embedded market segments such as defense and industrial automation.

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For more details on this product, including datasheet, visit http://www.gocct.com/sheets/vpa4501x.htm For a photograph visit http://www.gocct.com/sheets/picture/hires/jpgimage/vpa4501x-hires.jpg For enquiries... mailto:jba@cct.co.uk Concurrent Technologies introduces their first ultra-low power VME critical embedded single board computer based on an Intel® Atom processor with a power consumption of under 20W. The board uses the 1.6 GHz Intel® Atom™ processor N270 and the Intel® 945GSE Express chipset both from the Intel® embedded roadmap, ensuring long term availability. With 2 Gbytes DDR2-533 SDRAM this ultra-low power board also supports a variety of peripheral I/O ports, Flash drive, CompactFlash™ site and PMC/XMC modules. Commercial and extended temperature versions are now available and ruggedized, conduction-cooled or air-cooled (to VITA 47), versions will be available shortly. The VP A45/01x VME SBC is well suited to ultra-low power applications for embedded market segments such as defense and industrial automation. The 1.6 GHz Intel® Atom™ processor N270 (soldered), based on Intel´s 45nm process technology, provides 512 Kbytes L2 cache and supports Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel® Virtualization Technology. The Intel® GS45E Graphics Memory Controller Hub and Intel® ICH7-M IO Controller Hub are used to complement the processor to deliver a good performance-per-watt. With a wide range of flexible I/O the VP A45/01x supports a PMC/XMC site with front I/O and P2 rear I/O (VITA35 P4V2-64ac) plus a second 33MHz PMC site with front I/O and rear I/O via the optional P0. The first PMC site supports up to 100MHz PCI-X operation as well as a x1 PCI Express® XMC interface. A range of onboard I/O is available to the user: two Ethernet interfaces, a USB 2.0 port and an RS232 interface via the front panel, whilst the rear panel I/O includes digital 3D graphics (2048 x 1536), keyboard, mouse, four GPIO signals, two USB 2.0 ports, an RS232/RS422/RS485 port, and two SATA150 interfaces. The optional P0 also supports two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Other features provided are a PC real-time clock, watchdog timer and long duration timer and LAN boot firmware. Optional rear transition modules are also available. For embedded applications, the board supports an option for an onboard 2.5-inch SATA150 mass storage drive and as standard, a removable Flash Drive Module and onboard CompactFlash socket, both via an EIDE interface. The VME64 Interface supports A32/A24/A16/D64/D32/D16/D8(EO)/MBLT64 and includes support for fast hardware byte-swapping. For ease of integration the VP A45/01x supports many of today´s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® XP, Windows® XP Embedded, QNX® and VxWorks®. For ease of integration the PP 452/031-RC supports many of today´s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® Server 2003, Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Solaris™, QNX® and VxWorks®. <

Contact:
Jane Annear, Commercial Director Concurrent Technologies Plc 4 Gilberd Court, Newcomen Way, Colchester, Essex CO4 9WN, UK Telephone: (+44) 1206 752626 Fax (+44) 1206 751116 E-mail mailto:jba@cct.co.uk Website http://www.gocct.com