It's a VMEbus PC with everything on-board

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Apr 2, 2001

Xycom Automation's new XVME-660 PC processor card is a 6U, two-slot design for a PC based around an Intel socket 370 CPU in either Celeron or Pentium III forms and a PCI-to-VMEbus interface

Xycom Automation is introducing its new XVME-660 PC processor card.

The new module is the latest in a long line of VMEbus compatible processor cards from Xycom Automation.

The XVME-660 is a 6U, two-slot design for a PC based around an Intel socket 370 CPU in either Celeron or Pentium III forms and a PCI-to-VMEbus interface.

This allows users to take advantage of the flexibility and powerful multiprocessing capability of the VMEbus whilst using standard off-the-shelf software and operating systems.

The XVME-660 module features a breadth of I/O including PCI EIDE, UltraSCSI controller, 10/100 Base T Ethernet controller with front-end RJ45 connector, one Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, two 16550 compatible serial ports, one EPP/ECP parallel port and PS/2 style keyboard and mouse ports.

For I/O expansion, the XVME-660 has one PMC site and one Industry Pack (IP) site.

Both these sites allow easy I/O expansion without the need for a carrier board.

The XVME-660 is also compatible with the existing XVME-976 carrier modules if additional PMC or PC/104 expansion modules are required.

The XVME-660 also features configurable hardware byte-swapping logic and a watchdog timer.

The graphics system is 64-bit AGP with 4Mb SDRAM.

And up to 256Mb of system DRAM may be installed in a single 144-pin SODIMM module.

Compatibility has been maintained with Xycom's well-known range of Board Support Packages (BSPs) that simplify the integration of VMEbus data into PC software applications.