Kontron has designed a quad-core 3rd generation Intel Core i7-3615QE processor into a CompactPCI processor board.
The 6U CP6004-SA board is based on the Intel QM77 Express chipset and scalable up to the quad-core Core i7-3615QE processor with 4 x 2.3GHz (3.3GHz in Turbo mode).
This is a 20% increase in compute power and increased performance per watt compared to designs based on the 2nd generation Intel Core processors, said the supplier.
With a typical 60W or less power envelope, the board is available in dual-core and quad-core processor variants.
Data protection, for military and medical applications, is secured by the optional onboard Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2).
Bandwidth intensive image processing, multi-media and test and measurement applications will also benefit from the impressive 6MB cache and up to 16GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 ECC SO-DIMM memory. The Kontron CP6004-SA supports a configurable 64-bit/66 MHz PCI or PCI-X, hot swap CompactPCI interface.
Interfaces include: 6x SATA ports with RAID 0/1/5 functionality, 6 x USB 2.0 ports, 2 x RS232 ports, three independent graphics interfaces (1x VGA, 2x DVI/HDMI) and High Definition Audio (HDA) interfaces as well as 5 x Gigabit Ethernet connected via PCI Express to meet the high performance requirements of communications applications.
The board runs with Linux (Fedora, RedHat, Windriver), VxWorks (6.9 and later), Microsoft Windows 7, Windows XP, XP embedded or Windows Server 2008-R2.
Samples of the Kontron CP6004-SA are available in July. Full production starts in Q3 2012 with an availability until 2019.
