Concurrent introduces TP A40/30x SBC

Concurrent Technologies has introduced the TP A40/30x, its latest ultra low power 3U single/dual slow CompactPCI single board computer (SBC).

The board uses the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor Z530 and the Intel System Controller Hub US15W, both from the Intel embedded roadmap.

With 1Gbyte DDR2-533 SDRAM the board also supports a variety of peripheral I/O ports, CompactFlash, CANbus controller, an optional PMC/XMC module and can operate in a system slot, peripheral slot or as a blade.

Commercial and extended temperature versions are now available and ruggedised, conduction-cooled or air-cooled (to VITA 47), versions will be available soon.

With a combined thermal design power of less than 5W for the processor and chipset the TP A40/30x 3U CompactPCI SBC is well suited to ultra low power applications within the transportation, industrial control, automation, scientific, telemetry, defence, security, and aerospace markets.

The 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor Z530 (soldered), based on Intel's 45nm technology, provides 512Kbytes L2 cache and supports Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel Virtualisation Technology.

The Intel System Controller Hub US15W is a memory controller, I/O controller hub and graphics controller combined in a single-chip package.

Depending on the peripheral I/O requirements the TP A40/30x is available as a single or dual 3U slot board and can operate as a system controller (for up to seven peripheral slots with PICMG 2.1 hot-swap control), as a peripheral board, or as a blade.

For system management the board supports IPMI PICMG 2.9 via the IPMB0 interface.

The TP A40/30x family supports (in one slot) a high-speed CANbus controller, five high-speed USB 2.0 ports, up to two RS232 (including one RS232/422) ports, and up to two Gigabit Ethernet channels which can provide full-duplex data rates.

The CompactPCI control/data plane throughput can operate at 33/66MHz backplane PCI signalling speeds.

Additional I/O features include interfaces for four Serial ATA300, front or rear graphics, and high definition stereo audio.

For embedded applications the board supports, as standard, an onboard CompactFlash socket via an EIDE interface.

Using two slots, the TP A40/30x supports a 66MHz PMC (with front/rear I/O) or XMC site, a second on-board or front loading CompactFlash and an option to install an on-board 2.5in SATA300 hard disk drive, or a 2.5in solid-state SATA flash drive for harsher environments.

A 2048 x 1536 front panel analogue graphics interface is implemented using the Intel System Controller Hub US15W.

Other features provided are a PC real-time clock, watchdog timer, long duration timer, two GPIO signals and a legacy speaker interface.

For applications requiring rear I/O connections, a transition module is available - the RS232/422 level shifters, the stereo audio CODEC, line level stereo audio I/O pairs and MIC input are also supported on the transition module.

The TP A40/30x supports many operating systems, including Linux, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, QNX and VxWorks.

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