CPU, VPX
By: dl

The SBC6521 is the first in series of rugged 6U OpenVPX SBCs from Mercury Computer Systems based on Intel Core 2 Duo processors and featuring a multiplane architecture that the company says enables “seamless application scaling with very low-latency, deterministic, high-bandwidth communications. “

The new SBC is based on a 1.8-GHz SL9380 Core 2 Duo CPU and Intel 3100 chipset, plus 2 Gbytes of DDR2 SDRAM with ECC support, 8 Mbytes of BIOS LPC flash, 4 Gbytes of NAND flash, two 1000BASE-BX Ethernet ports, a 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet port, a x4 PCI Express link, two x8 PCI Express links, a pair of XMC/PMC expansion sites, three USB 2.0 interfaces, two SATA interfaces, and an RS-232/RS-422 serial port. Both air- and conduction-cooled versions are available.

www.mc.com/mediacenter/pressrelease.aspx?id=13460