VSYSTEMS announces the release of an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor based VME/VXS single board computer (SBC) as a performance upgrade from the VX 405/04x released earlier in the year from Concurrent Technologies. The VX 407/04x uses the latest mobile dual core processor from the Intel® embedded roadmap, the 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor, giving an even greater improvement in measured performance/watt. The VX 407/04x can access up to 4 Gbytes DDR2-667 soldered SDRAM at up to 10.6 Gbytes/s. The VXS switched serial standard - VITA 41.3 (1000Mbps baseband IEEE802.3) - is optionally supported to provide fast data transfer between other compatible boards in the system. This combination of high performance data processing and a wealth of I/O ensure that the boards are ideal for intensive computing applications within the defense, security, telemetry, industrial control, scientific, and aerospace markets.
The VX 407/04x board supports the 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor (in a socket) with 4 Mbytes L2 cache (shared between the cores). By using appropriate operating systems and applications software, a computing performance increase of at least twice an Intel® Pentium® M processor is achievable, and yet the Intel Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the 2.16 GHz dual core processor is 34W versus 27W TDP for the single core 2.0 GHz Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 (with 2 Mbytes L2 cache). The Mobile Intel® 945GM Express chipset and Intel® ICH7-M are used to complement the processor to achieve a low power, yet high performance core design.
To enable easy fast transfer of data between the VX 407/04x board and other components in the system there are two networking options available: dual 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet interfaces (via P2) or an optional VITA 41.3 interface (via VXS P0) giving dual 1000Mbps baseband IEEE 802.3 serial links onto a VXS backplane fabric. For VXS users, Concurrent Technologies has a VXS VITA 41.3 (1000Mbps baseband IEEE802.3) switched serial board available.
A wide range of I/O is available: the front panel supports a 64-bit 66MHz PMC (with XMC) and a third 10/100/1000Mps Ethernet interface, while both the front and rear panels support graphics, keyboard and mouse interfaces plus up to 5 USB 2.0 and 2 RS-232/422 interfaces. The remaining rear panel interfaces provided are EIDE, SATA150, stereo audio line in/out and 3.5-inch floppy disk. Other features included are a watchdog timer, long duration timer, LAN boot firmware and options for an onboard 2.5-inch EIDE hard disk drive or dual CompactFlash™ EIDE storage. Alternatively, there is provision to provide two 64-bit 66MHz PMC sites, with front and rear I/O, by using an optional secondary PMC carrier board.
For ease of integration, the VX 407/04x family of boards support many of today’s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, VxWorks® and QNX®.
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