D3a (MEN)

The F6 is a 3U industrial computer for multichannel communication applications on the CompactPCI bus. The card can operate in the system slot as well as in peripheral slots. The F6 is designed to operate in industrial environments. PCB design, component selection, manufacturing and qualification such as ESD and -40 to +85°C temperature screening guarantee high reliability even under harsh environmental conditions. The F6 especially provides all interfaces for integration of typical telecommunication applications. The heart of the F6 CPU board is the PowerQUICC II MPC8260 with an integrated PowerPC EC603e processor core operating at 200MHz. The integrated communication processor module (CPM) of the MPC8260 comes with three fast communications controllers (FCC), two multichannel controllers (MCC) for TDM, four serial communications controllers (SCC) for HDLC/SDLC or UART applications and two serial management controllers (SMC) for low-speed operations. The F6 offers flexible use of MPC8260 communication controllers. Channels of the MCCs, FCCs and SCCs are routed to a COM Extension connector for implementation of ATM, E1/T1, fast Ethernet or HDLC interfaces. The remaining ports are used on board the F6 for fast Ethernet and UART operation. Different physical interface configuration such as RS232, RS422/RS485 or 10Base-T is available for two SCCs.

The M20 is based on the M-Module ANSI mezzanine standard. It can be used as an I/O extension in any type of bus system, i.e. CPCI, PXI, VME or on any type of stand-alone SBC. Appropriate M-Module carrier cards in 3U, 6U and other formats are available from MEN or other manufacturers. With the M20 M-Module memory cards can be used as multi-purpose storage devices. The card slot unit is located on a separate PCB. The boards are connected by a small flat-cable. This allows installation of the card slot anywhere in a rack just like a floppy disk drive. A memory card is the perfect solution for applications in rough industrial environments. The M20 module supports memory cards (PCMCIA type I) of SRAM and Flash type. ATA is not supported.

The D3 is a single-board computer for embedded applications based on the Kahlua II PowerPC. It can be used in a CompactPCI system slot or as a stand-alone card. The D3 comes with the MPC8245 PowerPC with 300MHz clock frequency and a local 32-bit/33-MHz PCI data bus. It is a complete state-of-the-art SBC offering DRAM, Flash and CompactFlash memory, dual Fast Ethernet, 4 COMs, USB, IDE and keyboard/mouse interfaces as well as an optional onboard hard disk. In addition, the D3a CPU board can be equipped with PC-MIP mezzanine cards. PC-MIP is the format of choice for all types of workstation I/O such as graphics, SCSI, Ethernet and additional serial lines. The modular combination of I/O functionality on a single-board computer allows to build up tailored control systems which appear as customized solutions based on standard components. Depending on the kind of I/O requirements, further standard versions of D3 are availabe for other mezzanine standards.