Posted by John Keller
WOBURN Mass., 14 Jan. 2010. Concurrent Technologies in Woburn, Mass., is introducing the PP 712/08x family of 6U CompactPCIcomputer boards based on the Intel Core i7 microprocessor for military, homeland security, and telecommunications applications.
The computer board comes with a choice of processors among the 2.53 GHz Intel Core i7-610E, 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7-620LE, and the 1.06 GHz Intel Core i7-620UE. The Core i7 is based on 32-nanometer process technology and the Intel integrated memory/graphics controller architecture.
The PP 712/08x single-board computer can optionally support extended temperatures ranging from -40 to 85 degrees Celsius. With as much as 8 gigabytes of DDR3-1066 ECC SDRAM, dual PMC/XMC sites, three Gigabit Ethernet ports, four SATA300 disk interfaces and dual head graphics, the PP 712/08x embedded computer also offers rear I/O interfaces that are compatible with the PP 512/06x family.
The PP 712/08x family is based on the combination of the Intel Core i7 processor and an Intel Platform Controller Hub (PCH), the Mobile Intel QM57 Express chipset. For high performance I/O processing the PP 712/08x family supports two PMC/XMC sites that support operation as fast as 133 MHz PCI-X operation as well as x8 PCI Express XMC interfaces.
The boards can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral board, or as a satellite board (blade). Support includes PICMG 2.16 (Ethernet fabric), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI), and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap); the CompactPCI backplane interface operates at 33/66MHz PCI signalling speeds.
The PP 712/08x includes three 10/100/1000-megabit-per-second Ethernet interfaces (one front and two rear) and the front panel also provides two USB 2.0, RS-232, dual head graphics via two digital (1600-by-1200) and analog (2048-by-1536) interfaces.
The rear I/O connections, compatible with Concurrent Technologies' popular PP 512/06x, provide three further USB 2.0 ports, an RS-232 port, four SATA300 mass storage interfaces and an Intel High Definition Audio interface. Other has are a watchdog timer, long duration timer, LAN boot firmware and options for an onboard 2.5-inch SATA300 disk and a CompactFlash site. For applications requiring rear I/O connections a switch module is available.
For more information contact Concurrent Technologies online at www.gocct.com.
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