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Concurrent: AMC processor module with extended temperature option

Concurrent Technologies announce their latest Advanced Mezzanine Card single width, mid-height or full-height, processor module suitable for AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, Scope Alliance and proprietary platforms. The AM 210/x0x board supports the 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 or the 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400 processor. The processor offers a large last-level on-die cache (6 Mbytes), 1066 MHz Front Side Bus, Intel Virtualization, Intel 64 Technology, improved power management, plus new features and enhancements to the Intel Core micro-architecture delivering increased instructions per clock.

The Intel Thermal Design Power for the 45nm 2.26 GHz dual core processor is 25W giving a much improved performance per Watt when compared to earlier generations of processors.  The Intel GS45 Graphics Memory Controller Hub and Intel ICH9M-SFF IO Controller Hub are used to complement the processor .  The board is suited for CPU intensive processing applications whereby the processor’s dual cores can access up to 8 Gbytes of dual channel DDR3-1066 SDRAM, via two SODIMMs, with a peak bandwidth of up to 16 Gbytes/s.

The AM 210/x0x is designed in compliance to AMC.0 (including full or mid-height front panel, full hot swap, and IPMI capabilities), AMC.1 Type 8 (single x8 or dual x4 PCI Express interface), AMC.2 Type E2 (2 x Gigabit Ethernet interfaces) and AMC.3 Type S2 (2 x Serial ATA300 ports).  A variant is available providing rear I/O compatibility with Scope Alliance systems.  In the AMC extended options region the module also features, as a sales variant, 2 x Serial ATA300 ports, 2 x USB 2.0 ports and an RS-232 port.  There is a further Gigabit Ethernet port, 2 x USB 2.0 ports and an RS-232 port accessible via the front panel. An optional onboard USB Flash disk is available in a range of capacities of up to 8 Gbytes.

Commercial temperature and extended temperature variants are now available with either the mid-height or full-height front panel type. Supported operating systems include Linux, WindowsServer 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, VxWorks and QNX.