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SBS Greenspring Modular I/O Announces First PC-MIP Mezzanine Products.


MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1998--

Smallest (47 x 90 mm) PCI-Based High Performance Mezzanine I/O

Module

Six Modules Fit On a Single-slot 6U Carrier Board to Deliver Six

Functions and 300 I/O Lines

Ideal for Use in High Performance Industrial, COTS And Telephony

Applications

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 mezzanine products.

The first PC-MIP products to ship will include one carrier board and four modules designed for industrial computing environments requiring high-performance I/O capabilities. The MC-606 is a front panel I/O mezzanine carrier board for CompactPCI that offers six PC-MIP sites.

The four modules offer a variety of I/O functions enabling designers to mix-and-match modules to system requirements: P-100BT features Fast Ethernet in a front panel I/O configuration; P-IO32 module offers 32 digital input Refers to hardware interfaces that accept non-analog signals. Contrast with analog input. See plugs & sockets./output dynamically designated channels; P-D64 D64 - Doom 64 (game) provides 64MB DRAM and the P-F64 provides 64MB of Flash memory on a single-sized PC-MIP module.

About PC-MIP

PC-MIP is a high performance, high density mezzanine that utilizes the PCI bus as the logical interface. PC-MIP is the smallest open architecture mezzanine (47 x 90 mm) available. Six modules fit on 6U VME carrier boards, 6U CompactPCI carrier boards and full-size desktop PCI slot boards; three modules on 3U carriers and half-size desktop PCI slot (hardware) PCI slot - A connector on Peripheral Component Interconnect and the associated physical space occupied by the installed PCI card. boards.

The modules are classified into two categories: Type I (flexible I/O) and Type II (front panel I/O) and include features unique to PC-MIP, such as: large number of perimeter ground pins for high frequency performance; and captive injector/ejector hardware for easy installation and removal.

"PC-MIP is a logical extension of our IndustryPack IP Card and PCI Adapter
This illustration was drawn from products from Dynamic Engineering. The IP card is a serial I/O card used for data acquisition, and the PCI card is an IP to PCI adapter. The PCI card holds three IP cards, although only one set of sockets is shown. (Drawn from donated products courtesy of Dynamic Engineering, www.dyneng.com)
 module and carrier board product line," said Chris Thompson, general manager of SBS GreenSpring Modular I/O. "PC-MIP retains the high modularity of IndustryPack and adds the bandwidth of PCI. It is ideal for bandwidth-intensive applications requiring performance, flexibility and faster time to market. In order to accomplish our goal of providing products that offer 'true modularity', we plan to offer PC-MIP modules for a wide variety of applications. Future product plans include MIL-STD 1553B, High Speed Serial, Octal Serial, SVGA video, SCSI II/Ultra SCSI, Analog I/O, USB, FireWire, ATM, and T1/E1 modules."

Price and Availability

The MC-606 carrier board and the P-100BT, P-D64, P-IO32 and P-F64 modules will be available for shipment in Q4, 1998. The MC-606 carrier board is priced at $595 (list). The PC-MIP mezzanine modules range in price from $350 for the P-100BT to $1,750 for the P-F64. Contact SBS GreenSpring for additional pricing information.

Product Features

The MC-606 is a front panel I/O mezzanine carrier board for CompactPCI with six PC-MIP sites. Four of the sites support front panel I/O. Two sites in back support rear panel I/O modules. The MC-606 conforms to both PICMG CompactPCI Specifications and PC-MIP draft specification (ANSI/VITA Task Group VITA-29).

The P-100BT Fast Ethernet module provides a 100BaseTx Ethernet interface and complies with the IEEE 802.3 and ANSI 8802-3 Ethernet Standards. It supports auto detection between 10BaseT and 100BaseTx. The P-D64 provides 64 MB of DRAM and the P-F64 provides 64 MB of non-volatile Flash memory on single-sized PC-MIP modules. The P-IO32 module features 32 digital input/output channels. Each channel can be dynamically and individually configured as either an input or output.

All PC-MIP products conform to the PC-MIP draft specification (ANSI/VITA Task Group VITA-29). Each PC-MIP module includes a Windows NT driver for plug-and-play operation.

About the PC-MIP Specification

The PC-MIP standardization effort is backed by industry leaders SBS GreenSpring Modular I/O; MEN Mikro Elektronik of Nuremberg, Germany; and Motorola Computer Group.

The PC-MIP draft specification is available directly from VITA (Ph: 602/951-8866) or from the Task Group Chair, Kim Rubin of the SBS Technologies Computer Group (kim@greenspring.com).

About SBS GreenSpring Modular I/O

SBS GreenSpring Modular I/O designs, manufactures and markets IP mezzanine I/O modules (under the IndustryPack(R) name) and IP carrier boards for PCI, CompactPCI, VME, ISA, STD32, PC/104 and stand-alone platforms. More than 125 IP modules are available for digital I/O, analog I/O, data communications, motion control, field bus, temperature measurement and graphics controller applications.

SBS GreenSpring also designs and manufactures PC-MIP modules and carrier boards for applications requiring higher bandwidth, higher density I/O solutions.

SBS Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SBSE), the parent company, is a leading manufacturer of standard bus embedded computer components for VME, CompactPCI, embedded PC and custom stand-alone applications. SBS product lines include CPU (Pentium and PowerPC) boards, input/output (I/O) modules, avionics modules and analyzers, bus interconnection products, expansion units, real-time networks, telemetry boards, data acquisition software, and industrial-grade computers.

SBS embedded computer components are used in a variety of applications, such as communications, medical imaging, industrial control and flight instrumentation, in the commercial and aerospace markets.

For further information on SBS GreenSpring Modular I/O, contact 181 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, Calif., 94025; Ph: 650/327-1200; Fax: 650/327-3808; email: sales@greenspring.com; Web site: www.sbs-greenspring.com.
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