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A20 - 6U VMEbus 2eSST Intel® Core™ 2 Duo CPU Board

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A20 - 6U VMEbus 2eSST Intel Core 2 Duo CPU Board

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Intel® Core™ 2 Duo L7400
Core Duo U2500 or L2400
1-slot 2eSST VMEbus master and slave
Up to 4 GB DDR2 DRAM soldered
2 SATA, 1 PATA interface
1 VGA at front
1 Gb Ethernet at front
1 USB at front
2 XMC or 2 PMC
PCI Express® six x1 links
Board controller

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The A20 6U single-slot VMEbus SBC supports a variety of Intel® Core™ Duo and Core 2 Duo processors from the high-end 1.5 GHz L7400 to the low-voltage dual-core versions down to a selection of single-core Celeron® M types. It is designed especially for systems which require high computing and graphics performance and low power consumption in a typical Windows® environment, under VxWorks® or Linux.

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Using the TSI148 bridge controller the CPU card provides 2eSST performance levels while maintaining backwards compatibility with older standards such as VME64 and VME32.

The standard I/O available at the front panel of the A20 includes graphics on a VGA connector, one Gigabit Ethernet and one USB 2.0 interface. As an option a COM interface on an RJ45 connector can be provided instead of the USB interface.

As rear I/O the A20 provides seven USB interfaces, one SATA port and PMC rear I/O.

A second SATA interface for connection of an onboard hard disk or for building up RAID systems is provided on-board instead of one PMC or XMC. One PATA interface supports the onboard CompactFlash® slot.

The working memory comprises up to 4 GB DDR2 DRAM which is soldered to guarantee optimum shock and vibration resistance.

A total of six PCI Express® lanes for high-speed communication (such as Gb Ethernet) are supported on the A20. One x1 PCIe® link is used for the onboard Ethernet interface, three x1 links support the XMC slots, one x1 link supports the PMC slots via a PCI Express® to PCI-X bridge and one x1 link is used for connection of the VMEbus bridge. The PMC slots support 64bit/66MHz (PCI-X).

Supervision of the processor and board temperature as well as a watchdog for monitoring the operating system complete the functionality of the SBC.

The A20 comes with a tailored passive heat sink within 4 HP height. However, forced air cooling is always required inside the system.

Equipped with Intel® components exclusively from the Intel® Embedded Line, the A20 has a guaranteed minimum standard availability of 5 years.

Its robust design make the A20 especially suited for rugged environments with regard to extended operating temperature, shock and vibration according to applicable DIN, EN or IEC industry standards. It is also ready for coating for use in humid and dusty environments. The wide range of industrial applications include for example monitoring, vision and control systems as well as test and measurement. Main target markets comprise industrial automation, security and infotainment, traffic and transportation, shipbuilding, medical engineering and robotics.

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CPU

Up to Intel® Core™ 2 Duo L7400
• Dual-core 64-bit processor
• Up to 1.5GHz processor core frequency
• Up to 667MHz front-side bus frequency

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CPU

Core 2 Duo L7400, 1.5GHz LV

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Standard Configurations

Article No.	CPU Type	System RAM	XMC/PMC	P0 Ethernet	Operation Temp.
01A020-00	L7400	2 GB DDR2	2 slots	No	0..+60°C

Standard A20 Models

Article No.	Description	More
01A020-00	Intel® Core™ 2 Duo L7400, 1.5 GHz, 2 GB DDR2 DRAM, P0 not mounted, 0..+60°C	Photo

Memory

Article No.	Description
0751-0042	CompactFlash® card, 4 GB, Type I, fixed bit set, -40..+85°C
0751-0053	CompactFlash® card, 2 GB, Type I, fixed bit set, -40..+85°C
0751-0055	CompactFlash® card, 8 GB, Type I, fixed bit set, -40..+85°C

Miscellaneous Accessories

Article No.	Description	More
05F006-00	RS232 interface cable RJ45 to 9-pin D-Sub (1 COM to 1 COM), 2m	Photo

Software

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OS independent
To use MDIS™ low-level drivers, you also need one of the MDIS4™ or MDIS5™ system packages available for Linux, VxWorks®, QNX® or OS-9® (MDIS™ = MEN Driver Interface System).
13Y001-06	MDIS5™ low-level driver sources (MEN) for LM63 on SMBus for F14, F15, F17, F18, D9, D601, A19 and A20 Requires an MDIS4™/2004 or MDIS5™ system package	Download Details
13Y002-06	MDIS5™ low-level driver sources (MEN) for F14, F15, F17, F18, D9, D601, A19 and A20 board monitoring Requires an MDIS4™/2004 or MDIS5™ system package	Download Details
13Y004-06	MDIS5™ low-level driver sources (MEN) for generic SMBus driver for F14, F15, F17, F18, F19P, F21P, G20, D9, D601, F600 and F601, A19, A20 and F217 Requires an MDIS4™/2004 or MDIS5™ system package	Download Details
13Y007-06	MDIS5™ low-level driver sources (MEN) for F14, F15, F17, F18, D9, D601, A19 and A20 board controller Requires an MDIS4™/2004 or MDIS5™ system package	Download Details
Linux
This product is designed to work under Linux. See below for potentially available separate software packages from MEN.
13Z014-90	Linux device driver (MEN) for PCI-to-VME bridge on A12, A13, A14, A15, A17, A19, A20 and B11	Download Details
Windows
This product is designed to work under Windows®. See below for potentially available separate software packages from MEN.
13F014-77	Windows® Installset (MEN) for F14, F15, F17, F18, D9, D601, A19 and A20 Includes all free drivers developed by MEN for the supported hardware.	Download w/o System Package Download with System Package Details
13T001-70	Windows® network driver (Intel®) for F14, F15, F17, F18, D9, D6, D7, D601, A19, A20 and P601, P602	Download Details
13T003-70	Windows® chipset driver (Intel®) for F14, F15, F17, F18, F18E, F19P, D9, D6, D7, D601, A19 and A20	Download Details
13T005-70	Windows® USB2UART driver (FTDI) for F14, F15, F17, F18, F19P, D9, A19, A20, XM2 and XM50 / XM51 / F50P / F50C hosts	Download Details
13T007-70	Windows® chipset graphics driver (Intel®) for F15, F17, D9, A19 and A20	Download Details
13Z014-71	VME4WIN/MDIS5™ Software Package (MEN) - VMEbus support under Windows® XP/Vista/Windows® 7 for MEN A19 and A20	Download Details
VxWorks
This product is designed to work under VxWorks®. For details regarding supported/unsupported board functions please refer to the corresponding software data sheets.
10A019-60	VxWorks® 6.6 BSP for A19 and A20	Download Details
Firmware/BIOS
This product includes a specially adapted BIOS.
14A020-00	System BIOS for A19 and A20	Download Details
Miscellaneous
Intel® software development products such as analyzers, compilers, threading tools etc. can be downloaded under www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/index.htm. IA-32 Intel® Architecture Software Developer's Manuals are available under www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/index.htm.

For operating systems not mentioned here contact MEN sales.

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