Concurrent unveils ultra-low-power board

Concurrent Technologies has introduced its first ultra-low-power VME critical embedded single-board computer, based on an Intel Atom processor with a power consumption of less than 20W.

The board uses the 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor N270 and the Intel 945GSE Express chipset, both from the Intel embedded roadmap, ensuring long-term availability.

With 2Gb DDR2-533 SDRAM, this ultra-low-power board supports a variety of peripheral I/O ports, flash drives, the Compactflash site and PMC/XMC modules.

Commercial and extended temperature versions are ruggedised, conduction cooled or air cooled to Vita 47.

The VP A45/01x VME SBC is suitable for ultra-low-power applications for embedded market segments such as defence and industrial automation.

The N270 (soldered), based on Intel's 45nm process technology, provides 512Kb L2 cache and supports Intel Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel Virtualization Technology.

The Intel GS45E Graphics Memory Controller Hub and the 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 (Vita 35 P4V2-64ac), as well as 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, including two ethernet interfaces, a USB 2.0 port and an RS232 interface via the front panel, while the rear panel I/O includes digital 3D graphics (2048 x 1536), a keyboard, a mouse, four GPIO signals, two USB 2.0 ports, an RS232/RS422/RS485 port and two SATA150 interfaces.

The optional P0 also supports 2Gbit ethernet interfaces.

Other features provided are a PC real-time clock, a watchdog timer and a 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 2.5in 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.

The VP A45/01x supports Linux, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, QNX and Vxworks.

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