MIC-3390 Offers New Standards and Technology for CompactPCI® Single Board Computers
Date: 12/30/2005
ECA Services Limited., the industrial computing and telecommunication leader today rolls out the first-to-market CompactPCI-based high-performance Intel® Pentium® M SBC (Single Board Computer) with PCI Express and IPMI 2.0-compliant interfaces. It is perfectly matched for mission critical telecom and data communication applications where high availability is essential. Moreover, the MIC-3390 CompactPCI 6U CPU board provides telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) with increased throughput and improved call-handling capabilities for applications at the edge of the network such as application servers, media gateway controllers and home location registers.
High-speed, low-power computing
The MIC-3390 offers high-speed, low-power computing with support for the latest Intel® Pentium® M processors. Combined with the Intel I/O Controller Hub ICH6-M, this SBC supplies unprecedented performance, connectivity, and throughput without compromising system thermal design. The MIC-3390 also supports up to 2GB of DDR2 system memory on dual-channel SO DIMMs. High-speed data transfer across the 400/533 MHz system bus provides 3.2 GB/s peak memory bandwidth, a 60% increase compared with DDR memory. The MIC-3390 is the first SBC from ECA to use the Mobile Intel 915GM Express chipset, offering an integrated memory, graphics and I/O solution.
IPMI 2.0 enhances multi-vendor system management
With an optional mezzanine card, the MIC-3390 provides an Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) fully compliant with theIPMI 2.0 specification. The data is sent to the management interface via LAN or local console. The management system uses sideband and out-of-band communications to check the operational status of the SBC.
PCI Express provides better data throughput and higher scalability for Gigabit LAN
The MIC-3390 maximises I/O throughput by taking full advantage of the ICH6-M’s PCIe root ports. The flexibility of the bridge allows the MIC-3390 to be used in a system slot or peripheral slot as an intelligent I/O processor, or as an application blade in a multi-processor or clustered architecture. Adding to this array of I/O features, the Serial ATA Controller in the ICH6-M provides two ports for high-speed data transfers up to 150 MB/s. One port is routed to the rear I/O and the other port is routed to both the onboard 2.5” SATA drive and rear I/O for a greater choice of connectivity. Dual Gigabit Ethernet interface to the PICMG 2.16 Packet Switched Backplane provides reliable Gigabit speed switched-fabric interconnection between blades.
