Micro Industries Introduces a New PICMG Passive Backplane CPU Board Featuring Intel Celeron Processor Technology.WESTERVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1999-- -- 686PCI/64P3 Provides Cost Effective Performance Enhancements for OEMs Incorporating PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. Form Factors into a Wide Range of Embedded Solutions -- Micro Industries Corporation today introduced the 686PCI/64P3, a new PICMG passive backplane A backplane that adds no processing in the circuit. See backplane. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. board featuring Intel(R) Celeron(tm) processor technology. The 686PCI/64P3 provides a high performance single board solution for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and industrial PC-compatible applications in a wide range of embedded solutions including imaging, industrial control and monitoring, telecom, telephony, and data acquisition. Micro Industries is an electronics manufacturing services Electronic manufacturing services (EMS) is term used for companies that design, test, manufacture, distribute and provide return/repair services for electronic component and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). (EMS) company that provides electronic engineering and manufacturing resources to OEMs. "The Intel Celeron processor delivers high performance for value-conscious developers of dedicated and connected performance-driven applications," said Joe Jensen, director of marketing, Intel Embedded Microcomputer Division. "The Celeron processor is Intel's most popular processor for value PCs. Manufacturers such as Micro Industries, which was one of the first companies to introduce boards based on this architecture, offer OEMs an opportunity to utilize increased power with reduced costs, which ultimately delivers more value to consumers." "The 686PCI/64P3 is designed with the Celeron processor and the Intel BX Chipset See Intel chipsets. technology, which offer significant performance enhancements over Pentium and 486 designs, and a higher level of integration over previous products," stated Michael Curran, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Micro Industries. "With this new product, we are offering OEMs remarkable power, speed, and value, coupled with our long term support." The 686PCI/64P3 is based on the Intel Celeron 370-pin PPGA (Plastic PGA) See PGA. PPGA - Plastic Pin Grid Array (plastic pin grid array (hardware, processor) Plastic Pin Grid Array - (PPGA) The package used for certain Intel Celeron processors. PPGA processors fit into Socket 370 motherboard sockets. The Plastic Pin Grid Array packaging is similar to that used on Pentium processors. ) socket processors. This full-featured single board solution supports all the standard PC functions as well as several high performance interfaces such as PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , 10/100 bit Ethernet, and graphics accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. . 686PCI/64P3 Features -- Intel BX Chipset and Celeron Processor: Support of Intel Celeron Socket-370 compatible processors up to 466MHx, up to 512MB DRAM, and AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. video offers OEMs the latest in speed, performance, and value. -- Symbios 875 Ultra SCSI The designation for various high-speed SCSI interfaces. The original specification was Ultra SCSI, followed by Ultra2, Ultra3, etc. For details, see SCSI. Controller: This PCI SCSI controller A common term for a SCSI host adapter. See SCSI. SCSI controller - SCSI adaptor , which supports Ultra SCSI transfers up to 40MB per second and 8 or 16-bit devices, is an extension of the SCSI-2 standard that expands the bandwidth of the SCSI bus and allows faster synchronous SCSI transfer rates. It is designed for reliable operation in all cabling environments. -- Intel 82559 Ethernet Controller: Intel's highly integrated 32-bit PCI LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. controller for 10 or 100 MB per second fast Ethernet An earlier name for 100Mbps Ethernet. See 100Base-T. (networking) Fast Ethernet - A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. networks is the company's leading solution for PCI LAN designs. It combines a small package design with low power expenditure to conserve energy. -- Intel 69000 Graphics Controller: This highly integrated graphics Refers to having the video display circuitry of a computer contained directly on the motherboard rather than on a separate plug-in card (the display adapter). Integrated graphics typically share memory with the CPU (see shared video memory) and provide a more economical alternative to the controller for embedded and industrial PC applications is integrated with 2MB SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. display memory. It is the first member of the HiQVideo(tm) family to integrate high speed SDRAM frame buffer memory into the chip, delivering uncompromised performance and at the same time consuming much less power than the discrete solution. -- M-Systems DiskOnChip(R) 2000: This high performance single-chip flash disk is available in 2-72MB capacities. It is designed to offer a better, faster, and more cost-effective data storage solution for single board computers. Availability and Pricing The 686PCI/64P3 is available now worldwide. Pricing starts at $495 (U.S.) in OEM quantities (without processor and memory). Variations in pricing are based on configured options. Prices are subject to change without notice. Products can be ordered by calling Micro Industries' Customer Service Department at 800/722-1842. A complete listing of product features is included in the attached table. For more information, visit www.microindustries.com. About Micro Industries Micro Industries Corporation, founded in 1978, is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company that provides electronic engineering and manufacturing resources to OEMs. Micro Industries helps customers translate their product requirements into low-cost standard, custom, and semi-custom product solutions for embedded and integrated computer systems. The 52,000 square foot facility in Westerville, Ohio serves as corporate headquarters, and houses an EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. Zero Discharge manufacturing facility that meets both ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001-94 and ISO 14001 standards. The manufacturing facility has fully automated conventional and surface mount assembly lines for both prototype and production requirements. Micro Industries employs a dedicated staff of engineers focused on product design. For more information visit www.microindustries.com. Note: Micro Industries is a registered trademark of Micro Industries Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Celeron is a trademark of Intel Corporation. All other legal marks are property of their respective owners. -0-
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Complete Listing of Product Features
686PCI/64P3
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Form factor PICMG SBC (13.330" x 4.800") per PICMG
standard Revision 2.0
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Processor Intel(R) Celeron(tm) 370-Pin PPGA Processors
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Chipset Intel (R) 82440BX, consisting of:
-- Intel (R) 82443BX PCI/AGP controller (PAC)
-- Intel (R) 82371EB PCI ISA IDE Xcelerator
(PIIX4E)
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Memory -- Two 168 pin dual inline memory module
(DIMM) sockets
-- Support for up to 256 MB of 66 MHz or 100
MHz synchronous DRAM (SDRAM)
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Cache 128Kbyte On-Processor, unified, non-blocking,
level-two cache
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Flash Disk M-Systems DiskOnChip(R)2000
-- 2-72MB capacity
-- Full Boot Operability
-- Broad O/S Support
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Ethernet Controller Intel 82559
-- PCI 10BASE T / 100Base TX interface
Ethernet Controller
-- RJ45 Interface
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SCSI Symbios 53C875
-- PCI Ultra SCSI Controller
-- 68-Pin Ultra SCSI Interface
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Video Intel, CHIPS 69000 HiQVideo(tm) Accelerator
-- 2 MBytes of high speed SDRAM on-chip frame
buffer
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I/O Control SMC FDC37C932FR
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Peripheral Interfaces -- Two 16550 serial ports
-- PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
-- One parallel port bi-directional, ECP
(IEEE 1284)
-- Two USB ports
-- Two fast IDE interfaces that support up to
four IDE drives
-- Diskette drive
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Additional Features -- Real Time Clock with battery backup
-- Two-stage Watchdog Timer
-- APC (Advanced Power supply Control)
-- Enhanced Power Management
-- BIOS Extensions for (I2C, ASM)
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BIOS -- 256KB Flash Memory
-- ACPI, APM, and Plug and Play
-- Flash re-programming and Crisis Recovery
utilities
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