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CPCI/PICMG 2.16 Intel® Core i7 Third Generation System/Peripheral CPU
Rugged Air, Rugged Conduction Cooled

Highest Quad / Dual Core Performance in 22nm Technology for Harsh Environments

The CP6004-RA/RC, a CompactPCI PICMG 2.16 compliant 6U CPU board, comes with various rugged levels, making it yet another addition to Kontron’s rugged PICMG 2.16 portfolio.
Based on the Intel® Core i7 third generation processor and the QM77 platform controller hub, the CP6004-RA/RC is featured by dual or quad core computing performance at a reasonable thermal design power, including a complete set of data, communication and multimedia interfaces.
The CP6004-RA version is designed for harsh application requirements in air-cooled environments, where the CP6004-RC is made for conduction cooled environments.
With the 2.1 GHz Intel® Core i7-3612QE and the LV 2.5 GHz Intel® Corei7-3555LE, the CP6004-RA/RC has extraordinary performance per watt values. Up to 16 GByte of soldered DDR3 1600 MHz memory with ECC provide the foundation of demanding software applications.
Based on the Intel® Mobile QM77 I/O controller hub the CP6004-RA/RC provides high graphics performance for VGA and two independent digital video outputs to the rear I/O as well as HDA audio capabilities.
Besides the outstanding graphics performance, the CP6004-RA/RC offers comprehensive I/O capability with up to 5x 1Gb Ethernet, 4 x rear I/O SATA with RAID 0/1/5/10 functionality, a local SATA Flash disk connector, as well as 6x USB 2.0, 2 x COM.
It can also accommodate a conduction cooled PMC/XMC slot for I/O intensive applications.
The board provides safety and security via an optional trusted platform module, (TPM 1.2), two redundant firmware hubs (failover) and IPMI support according PICMG 2.9 R1.0.

– 4HP, single slot quad or dual core CPU rugged air or conduction cooled
– Scalable processor speed, Intel® Core i7 3rd generation up to 2.5 GHz
– Up to 16GB DDR3 1600 MHz soldered memory with ECC
– Up to 5x GigEthernet Interfaces via PCIExpress
– Latest IO technology with SATA Gen 3, RAID, SSD
– XMC/PMC + SSD Flash configuration possible
– Rear I/O supporting PICMG 2.16

The CB2109 “Heron” is fourth-generation, 6U cPCI SBC module based on GMS’s upgradable CPU technology. It is designed to provide the highest level of workstation performance possible in a fully ruggedized, single-slot cPCI. The Heron is targeted for applications where ultra-high-speed processing power is required with outstanding graphics for upgrading legacy hardware, such as the C269, or for new applications where ultra-high performance, lower-power cPCI is needed. The Heron is the highest performance cPCI SBC in the market with vast I/O and upgradable CPU for extended life cycle.

The Heron supports the Haswell Intel® Core i7 processor with up to four physical CPU cores with Hyper-Threading for total of 8 logical cores, each operating at up to 2.4GHz with the ability to TurboBoost. To harvest this incredible CPU performance, the CPU is coupled with up to 32GB of RAM organized in two banks and supporting error correcting code (ECC). The ECC RAM provides 2-bit error detection and 1-bit error correction and supports up to 1600 mega-transfers per second (MTS) between the CPU and memory.

The I/O subsystem for the Heron is designed to support a wide array of standard and custom I/O functions. The CB2109 standard configuration supports two 10Gigabit Ethernet ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports with TCP/IP Offloading Engine (TOE) to the rear panel and one Gigabit Ethernet to the front panel, two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports to front panel, two USB 2.0 to the rear, up to 1TB of mSATA with write-protect for OS boot or one 2.5″ SSD/HDD, two DVI-I ports with sync-on-green on the RGB ports with one optional DVI port to rear panel, two COM ports with RS-232 drivers (one to front panel and one to rear), and line in/out audio. The Heron also supports Super I/O for legacy COM ports and PS2 Mouse/KB on rear I/O, and two SAM sites for custom I/O expansion. The first one is shared with the mSATA device, while the second, much larger site can support a variety of expansion I/O such as, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, CANBus, GPS or any custom I/O via 4-Lane PCIExpress with I/O to rear Panel. The I/O connectors in the front and rear panel are placed on the same locations as the C269 for seamless upgradability.

The XPort1021 is an intelligent communications controller targeting high-performance yet low-cost applications. The XPort1021 combines a wide array of supported serial protocols, a broad range of serial interface standards, and a flexible I/O routing structure, to pack maximum flexibility into an industry standard cPCI form factor.

Powered by two MPC8270 (PowerQUICC II) processors, the XPort1021 implements eight serial communication ports, each providing an EIA-530-A-compliant signal set. Supporting HDLC/SDLC, UART, transparent, and BiSync modes, with NRZ, NRZI, FM0, FM1, Manchester and Differential Manchester encoding. Coupled with software-configurable support for RS-232, RS-422, RS-423, RS-485 and MIL-STD-188-114, the XPort1021 provides a wide range of serial options.

The XPort1021 will minimize both the cost and power consumption of your system. Because the PCI bridge is integrated on-chip and the MPC8270s are linked via the 60x bus, the XPort1021 draws less power and costs less than conventional designs based on other processors that require a PCI bridge.