Product category: PC-Compatible Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Force Computers | Subject: ATCA-710
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 June 2003
SBC leads the way with AdvancedTCA
The ATCA-710 single board computer is the first commercially available board based on the new AdvancedTCA series of open specifications
The ATCA-710 single board computer is the first commercially available board based on the new AdvancedTCA (ATCA) series of open specifications - with a robust 1.8GHz Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor M and support for Carrier Grade Linux. Designed for control and data-plane processing, the ATCA-710 supports high-end communications including 2.5G/3G wireless and broadband wireline applications.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 June 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Flexible configuration options also exist for adding a daughtercard with four PCI mezzanine card (PMC) slots for I/O expansion using PCI-X and/or switch-based gigabit Ethernet (GigE).
The switch provides access to both the base and fabric interfaces - also part of the ATCA specification.
With early access to SBCs based on this PICMG 3.x series of ATCA specifications, telecomms equipment makers and network equipment providers can develop systems more quickly.
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Expansion for AdvancedTCA line
One year after being the first company to bring AdvancedTCA SBCs and systems to commercial realisation, Force Computers has introduced two new cost-effective ATCA devices
The latest addition to a long line of Force SBCs based on open specifications, the ATCA-710 offers maximum scaleability and flexibility for system development and technology evaluation - optimised for processor and I/O-intensive applications such as radio network controllers or general packet radio service nodes.
This 8U SBC also offers: a server-class chipset supporting 1.6Gbyte/s memory bandwidth and full-duplex 3.2Gbyte/s daughtercard interface; up to 2Gbyte 266MHz ECC-protected double-datarate (DDR) SDRAM; up to 8Mbyte user and 4Mbyte boot Flash as well as CompactFlash support; ATCA management controller (IPMI version 1.5); redundant connections to the backplane base interface; optional redundant connection to the backplane fabric interface; optional quad PMC carrier board; and an optional 12-port GigE switch.
The ATCA-710 will be available through Force's Early Access Unit programme in July with volume shipments scheduled for Q4 2003.
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