Product category: Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Nexcom UK | Subject: Peak 8920VL2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 07 February 2007
World's-first claim for PICMG 1.3 board
Nexcom has introduced the world's first PICMG 1.3 system host board-Express computer.
Nexcom has introduced the world's first PICMG 1.3 system host board-Express computer (SHB) The Peak 8920VL2 has dual LGA771 sockets and supports two 5100 Series quad-core or dual-core Intel Xeon processors with 4Mbyte L2 cache and the Intel Core microarchitecture up to 2.33GHz with 1333MHz FSB
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Featuring an Intel 5000P chipset and Intel ESB2, the Peak 8920VL2 delivers increased throughput with dual point-to-point system buses, faster memory for I/O bandwidth, and fully buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) support.
Like all Nexcom single board computers the ultrareliable Peak 8920VL2 is manufactured to the highest possible levels and is compatible with a large number of industry-standard backplanes.
PICMG 1.3 regulates the PCI Express interconnection definition between the CPU board, the backplane and other I/O ports.
PICMG 1.3 defines the signals of the four connectors on the system host board for I/O and PCIe to support increased bandwidth, up to 4Gbyte/s in each direction for PCIe x16.
Generally the throughput of the system is limited to the bottleneck of the bandwidth.
By discontinuing the support of the legacy ISA ports, it allows system to allocate more resources and support a higher bandwidth for PCIe ports.
PICMG 1.3 supports new PCIe x16 interface, SATA, USB, LAN wake up on backplane to increase bandwidth and performance.
As more sophisticated industrial applications demand higher performance computing platforms, the bandwidth of the system become vital to reliable computing solutions.
To enjoy the maximum bandwidth of throughput, the complete system must use the latest parts and components.
When compared with PICMG 1.0, the PICMG 1.3 architecture greatly improved the bandwidth of the PC bus and is able to support additional I/O functions, and so systems complying with PICMG 1.3 have longer lives. Request a free brochure from Nexcom UK ...
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