The board is ideal for CPU intensive processing applications whereby the processor’s dual cores can access up to 8 Gbytes of on board soldered DDR3 dual channel SDRAM at up to 16 Gbytes/s. As a single slot solution, this combination of high performance data processing, and an extensive range of I/O interfaces, plus two PMC/XMC sites ensures that the PP 531/06x is an ideal choice for processing intensive applications within a range of operational environments. Commercial and extended temperature versions are now available and ruggedized, conduction-cooled or air-cooled, versions will be available shortly. Applications for this family of boards are expected within the defense, industrial control and transportation markets.
The PP 531/06x is based on a platform consisting of the 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor SP9300 or the 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor SL9400, the Intel® GS45 Graphics Memory Controller Hub and the Intel® I/O Controller Hub 9M-E. The dual core processors offer a large shared last level cache (6 Mbytes), 1066 MHz Front Side Bus, improved power management and support 64-bit operating systems.
The Mobile Intel® GS45 mobile class chipset accesses up to 8 Gbytes DDR3-1066 soldered dual channel SDRAM. For I/O, control and data processing flexibility the PP 531/06x supports two high performance PMC/XMC sites with front and rear I/O, PICMG® 2.16 (Ethernet fabric), PICMG 2.9 (IPMI) and PICMG 2.1 (hot swap). Each PMC site supports up to 100MHz PCI-X operation as well as x4 PCI Express® XMC interfaces; XMC site 1 can also support x8 PCI Express. The CompactPCI® control/data plane throughput can operate at 33/66MHz backplane PCI signaling speeds; the PP 531/06x can operate as a system controller board, a peripheral board or as a satellite board (blade).
A wide range of onboard I/O is available to the user: the board supports four 10/100/1000Mps Ethernet interfaces (two front and two rear) and the front panel also supports two USB 2.0 interfaces. The rear panel supports keyboard, mouse, analog graphics (2048 x 1536), two USB 2.0, RS-232/422/485, and two SATA300 interfaces.
Other features included are a watchdog timer, long duration timer, LAN boot firmware and options for an onboard 2.5-inch SATA300 hard disk drive and CompactFlash™ storage. For applications requiring rear I/O connections, a rear transition module is available.
For ease of integration, the PP 531/06x family of boards support many of today’s leading operating systems, including Linux®, Windows® Server 2003, Windows® Server 2008, Windows® XP Embedded, Windows® XP, Solaris™, VxWorks® and QNX®.