Product category: VMEbus Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Actis Computer | Subject: XCOM-9347
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 April 2007
System removes need
for complex CPU design
Actis Computer 's new PowerPC computer on module is designed to help the customer to build a system without the burden of designing the complex CPU part of the project
Actis Computer has released a new PowerPC computer on module based on the latest PICMG standard for processor mezzanine board: the XCOM-9347 COM Express module (PICMG COM.0 standard). It is designed to help the customer to build a system without the burden of designing the complex CPU part of the project, focussing instead on the application-specific carrier board.
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The XCOM-9347 includes on a very small Com Express Compact Board a new PowerQUICC II Pro from Freescale MPC8347Eat400 MHz with only 4W of power dissipation.
it supports up to 2 Gbyte of DDR2 SDRAM on a SODIMM module, 8Mbyte of NOR Flash and up to 1 GByte of NAND Flash.
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It offers also a 128-bit 2D/3D graphic engine (SM722) and several serial interfaces as required by the COM Express standard; two gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 (Host/device) ports, two Serial-ATA hard disk interface, two RS-232 serial ports and a 32-bit/66MHz PCI bus.
This module is also design to support hash environments, where an extended temperature range is required.
Software support for the XCOM-9347 includes Linux and VxWorks BSP.
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