Magazine selects Kontron board as editor's choice
Kontron
VX3020 CPU board
Kontron has announced that its 3U VPX board has been selected as an editor's choice product by VME and Critical Systems Magazine.
Kontron introduced the VX3020 in March 2009 as one of two CPU boards to support the VPX standard by providing scalable performance with high bandwidth over the backplane for ultra-rugged defence and aerospace applications.
The Kontron VX3020 is based on the latest dual-core 1.5GHz Intel Core2 Duo LV processor, offering high-end processing performance to meet a wide range of demanding signal and data processing requirements.
With the Intel 3100 chipset the Kontron VX3020 supports up to 2GB of DDR2 SDRAM and features all the high-performance I/Os that are available on the latest laptop PCs, such as the UXGA graphics controller with PCI-Express, two Gigabit Ethernet network interfaces, three SATA II interfaces and multiple USB 2.0 ports.
An onboard USB connector is able to support a standard USB Flash disk module.
The Kontron VX3020 can also run demanding PCI-based applications with support for high performance and PCI software backwards compatible PCI-Express, which is configurable as either x4 or quad x1 over the backplane.
Dedicated to harsh environments, the Kontron VX3020 is available in rugged conduction-cooled version (-40C, +85C at cold wall).
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