VME Series

Pro-face is pleased to announce the addition of a 6U single-slot, Intel Pentium III 700 MHz Based Low Power Processor Module to their Xycom VMEbus product offering.

The XVME-661 is a high performance, low power, versatile CPU board with a variety of extra features, which makes it an excellent choice for many applications within the telecommunications, defence, industrial, medical and aerospace market sectors. Special design specifications provide electrical isolation and noise immunity on Ethernet ports, COM1, and PMC site.

With its low power consumption, this board is an excellent upgrade path for customer's looking to upgrade older 486 and 586 VMEbus processors. Even with no fan, this board will run cool enough to replace Xycom's XVME-68x, XVME-67x, and XVME-65x products without creating a "hot spot" in the system.

The XVME-661, a PC-compatible board, offers additional features including EIDE, dual 10/100 Base-T Ethernet using RJ45 connectors, high resolution graphics including support for flat panel displays, up to 256 Mbytes of lower cost SDRAM and support for Type I/II CompactFlash™. On board, configurable, fast hardware byte-swapping is also supported. In addition, the board offers PC-compatible features such as keyboard, mouse, two RS232 serial interfaces, one USB interface, floppy disk interface and printer port.

These features can be further extended by the use of the on board PMC expansion site, and two additional PMC modules can be added using the optional XVME-976/203 PMC carrier board which connects directly to the XVME-661. Additional expansion for PC-104, PCI, and ISA is available through the use of other XVME-976 carrier boards. Hard drive, CD, and floppy drive capabilities can be added using XVME-977 and XVME-979 single-slot modules.

To ensure ease of integration of the XVME-661 into your VME systems, Pro-face offers Xycom's Software Board Support Packages for popular operating systems like Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Windows NT®, Windows NT® Embedded, Windows® 3.X, QNX® and MS-DOS®.

Paula Marshall

Marketing Manager

Pro-face UK Ltd

The Venture Centre, The Science Park,

Coventry CV4 7EZ

XVME-661 Highlights: Intel Pentium III Low Power 700 MHz CPU 100 MHz frontside bus 32-bit PMC (PCI Mezzanine Card) site with electrical isolation Dual 10/100 Base-T Ethernet controllers with front panel RJ-45 connectors and isolated ground   Type I / II IDE CompactFlash™ site High-performance 64-bit AGP graphics controller with 4 MB SDRAM