 VCE405 I/O-Oriented Single-Board Computer with Ultra Low Power Consumption  400 MHz PowerPC 405GPr Engine  Draws less than 7 Watts of Power  128 MB SDRAM, 8 MB Flash, CompactFlash Socket  Ethernet 10/100BASE-T; IIC Port; 6 Serial Lines  2 PMC Slots  Capable of Running with Natural Convection Only  Supports VxWorks, LynxOS 4.0, and Linux If it‘s Embedded, it‘s Kontron.  Product Overview The VCE405 Connectivity Engine provides a flexible off- the paired EPROM block size is 256 kB. Kontron uses the the-shelf method for quickly developing and deploying lowest addressed blocks for its test and boot software cost-conscious highperformance custom systems. and for storing the EPROM‘s programming algorithm. The low power consumption of the powerful, IBM These blocks are then locked into the array so they PowerPC 405GP/GPr and the ALMA2e PCI/VME bridge cannot be accidentally erased or overwritten. The Flash make the VCE405 well-suited to critical environments EPROM array may optionally be populated with Intel® such as aerospace or medical applications. 28F640J5a-120 (4M x 16) devices to provide 16 MB respectively. Please contact Kontron for this option. PowerPC 405GP/GPr The IBM PowerPC 405GP™ is a 32-bit RISC embedded UVEPROM socket controller. High performance and peripheral integration The board also provides a 32-pin DIP socket for a 27C801 of the 405GP/GPr make the device ideal for wired 8 Mb (1 MB) UVEPROM. The UVEPROM may be used to communications and other pervasive computing store user code or user data, or to provide the initial applications. boot code for the Flash EPROM and then be removed. The 405GP/GPr is powered by a PowerPC 405B3 embedded core. This core tightly couples either a 266 Compact Flash Socket MHz CPU and 24 KB data cache (16 KB I-cache; 8 KB A Compact Flash module can be fitted to the onboard Dcache) for the PowerPC 405GP or a 400 MHz and 32 plug-in site to provide up to 1 GB of field-removable KB data cache (16 KB I-cache; 16 KB D-cache) for the storage. PowerPC 405 GPr. This finelytuned core reduces data transfer overhead and minimizes pipeline stalls to greatly improve performance. Serial EEPROM The general architecture of the 405GP/GPr consists of The board provides a 64 kb serial EEPROM, a Fairchild a 64-bit, 133 MHz Processor Local Bus (PLB) and a 32- part# NM24C65U or equivalent, with an IIC interface. bit, 44 MHz On-Chip Peripheral Bus (OPB). The EEPROM hooks directly to the PPC405GP/GPr IIC bus lines. High-performance peripherals attach to the PLB and less performance-critical peripherals attach to the OPB. Real-Time Clock Ethernet Interface The Real-Time Clock (RTC) function is provided by a The board provides 100Base-TX Ethernet, with auto- Dallas Semiconductor DS1602 Elapsed Time Counter. negotiation to 10Base-T when connected to networks This device can keep track of over 125 years worth of not capable of 100 Mb/s operation. Ethernet support seconds in each of its 32-bit counters. One counter runs through the Media Access Control (MAC) layer is provided continuously. in the PPC405GP/GPr chip. The Physical Layer Device The other counter counts seconds only while +5V is (PHY) and the Physical Medium Dependent sub-layer and active. Software can determine how long the RTC has interface (PMD) are provided onboard. The connections been running on battery power by subtracting the VCC between the MAC and the PHY conform to the Medium active counter from the continuous counter. Independent Interface (MII) specification. The supported media is Category 5 Unshielded Twisted Memory Pair cable (UTP), accessed via an RJ-45 connector on 128 MB SDRAM the front panel (convection-cooled version). The system memory consists of two banks of 64 MB The Ethernet port can also go out the rear of the board for conduction-cooled or special builds. yielding, 128 MB of synchronous DRAM with Error Control and Correction. The SDRAM is directly controlled The Ethernet media access controller of the PPC405GP/ by the processor using a 32-bit, 133 MHz bus. GPr is a generic implementation of the Ethernet MAC A version featuring the PowerPC 405GP at 266 MHz and protocol complying with ANSI/IEEE 802.3 and IEEE only 64 MB is also available. 802.3u supplement. Its major features are:  Dual speed (10/100 Mb/s) CSMA/CD (half-duplex) 8 MB Flash EPROM and full-duplex Ethernet MAC  In addition, the board provides one Flash memory Independent, large (2 kB) transmit and (4 kB) array which is composed of two equal-sectored Intel® receive FIFOs with programmable thresholds to 28F320-J5a-110, 2M x 16 Flash EPROMs for a total of minimize overruns and underruns  Unicast, multicast, broadcast, and promiscuous 8 MB. Each EPROM has 32 128 kB blocks, but since the EPROMs are concatenated to form a 32-bit data path, address filtering capabilities VCE405 Connectivity Engine Block Diagram  Two 64-bit hash filters for unicast and multicast packets Four Sync./Async. Ethernet Dual Async. Serial Lines 10/100 Serial Lines  Automatic retransmission of collided VMEbus (RC version) EIA-232 IIC Bus EIA-232/422/485 packets VMEbus P2 (5-row) VMEbus P1 (5-row)  Compliance with IEEE 802.3x standard packet-based flow control, including P0 self-assembled control pause packet transmitting. ALMA2e PCI/VME  Support for VLAN tag ID in compliance Bridge with IEEE Draft 802.3ac/D1.0 standard PCI 64  VLAN tag insertion or replacement for transmit packets is a programmable option I/O on P2 128 MB  Wake on LAN (WOL) handling PowerPC SDRAM Dual Dual Please ask Kontroon for support of this IBM ESCC ESCC 405GP/GPr feature. 8 MB CPU FLASH Compact Flash Socket Asynchonous Ethernet 10/100 Serial Line(convection-cooled versions)  Dual Asynchronous Serial Lines Multiprotocol format (asynchronous, monosynchro- The PPC405GP/GPr provides two asynchronous 16550- nous, bisynchronous, SDLC/HDLC, SDLC/HDLC loop)  Encodes in the following modes: compliant EIA-232 serial ports (0 and 1). Port 1 is NRZI, FM0, FM1, and Manchester available on the front panel and on the P2 connector,  CRC-16 or CRC-CCITT error detection and port 0 is available on the P2 connector. Serial port  1 features a 2-wire interface (Tx, Rx, GND) while serial 4-byte transmit FIF0/8-byte receive FIF0 port 0 features a full modem interface (Tx, Rx, DCD, CTS, RTS, GND). IIC Bus Port The PPC405GP/GPr provides an inter-integrated circuit Quad Synchronous Asynchronous Serial Lines (IIC) bus interface which is available to the users on the backplane. Two enhanced serial communications controllers (ESCC) from Zilog, Z85230-16 provide synchronous/asynchronous The IIC bus is a two-wire, bi-directional, open-drain, serial lines at data rates up to 3.6 Mb/s. One controller low-speed serial interface. The serial clock (IICSCL) and provides dual independent full-duplex synchronous or serial data (IICSDA) lines are bidirectional to support asynchronous channels with softwareselectable EIA- multiple bus masters and to mix high- and lowspeed devices on the same bus. The IIC interface is compliant 232/422/485 transceivers (ports 4 & 5). The other provides dual independent full-duplex with Philips Semiconductor’s I2C specification, dated asynchronous channels with no handshaking capability 1995. It supports the following standard and enhanced and with software-selectable EIA-232/422/485 features:  transceivers (ports 2 & 3). All four serial lines are 100 KHz and 400 KHz operation  8-bit data transfers available on the software-selectable EIA-232/422/485  transceivers. 7-bit and 10-bit addressing  Every ESC Controller features: Slave transmitter and receiver   Dual full-duplex channels Master transmitter and receiver   Ability to accommodate a crystal oscillator, baud Multiple bus masters The IIC interface can switch between 7-bit and 10-bit rate generator, and digital phase-locked loop on each channel addressing under program control. PCI 32 VCE405 Low-Power VME Interface User PCI Interface Managed by the IBM/Kontron ALMA2e PCI-to-VME bridge The VCE405 features two 64-bit PMC site suitable for component that provides a highly integrated low-power connecting IEEE1386.1 standard PCI mezzanine cards singlechip solution: (PMCs). The PCI bus supports either 3.3V or 5V PCI  VME-to-PCI 64-bit/66 MHz signaling. The default manufacturing PCI signaling key  VME and IEEE-STD-1014-1987 compliant (32-bit) setting is for 3.3V use, but it can be modified by the with VME64 capability user in order to support 5V-only signaling PMCs. Care  VMEbus system controller should be taken for coherent signaling levels on the PCI  VMEbus requester (Level 1-4) bus.   VMEbus interrupter and interrupt handler (IRQ1-7) PMC #1 routes the first 46 of its 64 I/O lines via J14  VME transfer rate up to 70 MB/s to P2 rows D and Z; the remaining 18 I/O lines are  VMEbus master/slave A32, A24, A16: D32, D16, D8, routed via P0.  UAT All of PMC #2‘s 64 I/O lines are routed to P0 via J24.  VMEbus master/slave A32, A24: D32BLT, D64MBLT Remote Panel Expansion Port  Programmable VME slave image base address and size For easy integration into an enclosure where the VCE405’s (8 VME slave channels) front panel may not be visible or conveniently accessible,  VME-to-PCI access conversion through 8 MB a 10-pin header is provided to connect a remote front granularity mapping table panel with five LEDs and Reset/Abort.  Transmit/Receive FIFOs  Programmable posted write, prefetch read, coupled Miscellaneous mode  Board size: VME double Eurocard (6U - 233.3 mm x  Programmable BB2BLT mode: 160 mm) mapping of multiple single PCI accesses to a VMEbus  Single VME slot BLT/MBLT cycle  Power requirements:  Semaphore registers +5V (+5%, -2.5%): 1.5A;  VME/PCI 2-channel DMA controller +12V for flash memory programming and PMC site -12V for PMC site only  Weight: 370g in RC version  Conduction-cooled version (RC) is IEEE 1101.2-1992 compliant and is a single VME slot solution.  Electromagnetic compatibility: NF EN 55022 Class B NF EN 50082-2  All Kontron SBCs are EC-compliant. VCE405 Rear-Panel Board www.kontron.com  Customer Service  Related Products Quality Assurance Software Kontron´s ISO 9001 certification is just another way The Tornado/VxWorks Board Support Package for us to back Kontron´s commitment to quality (BSP) is available in accordance with WindRiver’s products and customer service. Windlink partnership program. The VCE405 also supports LynxOS 4.0 from LynuxWorks, the only hard real-time OS with a Linux ABI, and the Linux Warranty 2.6 from Sysgo. All of Kontron‘s hardware products are covered by a The VCE405 supports various boot options such two-year return-tofactory warranty. as boot from Ethernet or boot from CompactFlash Support Services disk. Software support of the synchronous serial lines such as SDLC, bisynchronous, and IIC slave Kontron offers a standard Support and Service mode are not included in the BSP. Please contact program which includes update services, hotline Kontron. access, product repair and exchange services, on-site or remote technical assistance, Pre-Planned Program Rear-Panel Connections technology Insertion (P3I) and long-term support Kontron has designed two rear-panel boards for (over 15 years). Moreover, Kontron´s structure is easy access to backplane I/O, a VITA 36-compliant flexible enough to provide custom support such as one and a short form factor one. frozen configurations. Derived Designs PMC Leveraging more than 15 years of new product When the Connectivity Engine does not fully provide development and customer support in embedded and all the features required by your system, COTS PMCs rugged computers, Kontron has been selected for are a cost-effective solution. Kontron offers an derived designs based on our excellence in PowerPC, extensive choice of COTS PMCs for commercial to Real-Time and Unix OS, and PCI/PMC technology. harsh environments: networking, additional serial lines, parallel I/O, graphics, etc.  Technical Information Environmental Specifications SA WA RA RC Standard Commercial Extended Temperature Rugged Air-Cooled Rugged Conduction-Cooled Conformal Coating Optional Standard Standard Standard Airflow 1.2 m/s 1.5 m/s 1.8 m/s NA Temperature VITA 47-Class AC1 VITA 47-Class AC2 VITA 47-Class AC3 VITA 47-Class CC4 Cooling Method Convection Convection Convection Conduction Operating 0° to +55°C -20° to +65°C -40° to +75°C -40° to +85°C Storage -45° to +85°C -45° to +85°C -45° to +100°C -45° to +100°C Vibration Sine (Operating) 20/500 Hz: 2g 20/500 Hz: 2g 20/2,000 Hz: 3g 20/2,000 Hz: 5g Random VITA 47-Class V1 VITA 47-Class V1 VITA 47-Class V2 VITA 47-Class V3 Shock (Operating) 20g/11 ms Half Sine 20g/11 ms Half Sine 40g/20 ms Half Sine 40g/20 ms Half Sine Altitude (Operating) -1,640 to 15,000 ft -1,640 to 33,000 ft -1,640 to 33,000 ft -1,640 to 50,000 ft 90% without condensation 95% without condensation 95% without condensation 95% without condensation Relative Humidity Natural Convection Enabled: No fan required. The VCE405 has been designed for use in natural convection environments. It has been successfully tested in a fanless chamber at up to 65°C. Please contact Kontron for more information. The VCE405 is delivered without Compact Flash Card. VCE405  Ordering Information VCE405 00 SA WA RA RC Environnement Class Standard X SA Extended Temperature (1) WA Rugged Convection-Cooled X RA Rugged Conduction-Cooled X RC PowerPC 405GP 266 MHz X X X X 2 Processor Speed PowerPC 405GPr 400 MHz X X X X 4 SDRAM Memory - 266 MHz Version Only 64 MB X X X X 1 - 266 MHz & 400 MHz Versions 128 MB X X X X 2 Flash 8 MB X X X X 1 Ethernet Link Front Panel X X X - Rear I/O on P2 X - Firmware Option - 266 MHz Version U-Boot for UNIX X X X X L VxWorks 5.4 for Bootstring X X X X V - 400 MHz Version U-Boot firmware (2) X X X X V Default - X X X - Conformal Coating Option X V P0 Connector Equipped X X X X 0 Non-equipped X X X X N (1) Contact Kontron (2) For booting VxWorks, please select the correct bootstring option: VxWorks Tornado 2.2 Integrated Bootstring PROM-1C-VCE405 VxWorks Tornado 2.0 Integrated Bootstring PROM-1A-VCE405 VITA 36 Rear I/O paddle board without front panel PBV36-P0-VCE405-00 VITA 5.5.1 Rear I/O paddle board with front panel PBV36-P0-VCE405-0F VxWorks BSP for VCE405 BSP-1C-VCE405 Linux 2.4 BSP for VCE405 (3) BSP-3A-VCE405 LynxOS 4.0 BSP for VCE405 Contact LynuxWorks (3) Available 2Q05 on 400 MHz, available now on 266 MHz version With AFAQ ISO 9001 2000 Version Certification Kontron Modular Computers S.A. guarantees Total Customer Satisfaction  Corporate Offices Europe, Middle East & Africa North America Asia Pacific Kontron Modular Computers S.A. 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