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 (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output 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 SBS See Small Business Server. GreenSpring Modular I/O announces the availability of the first PC-MIP 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/output dynamically designated channels; P-D64 provides 64MB DRAM and the P-F P-F Power-Fusion (Flash website) 64 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 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 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 (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). . 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 MIL-STD Military Standard 1553B, High Speed Serial, Octal Serial, SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. video, 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. II/Ultra SCSI, Analog I/O, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , 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 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. 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 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.3 and ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. 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, STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) Long distance dialing outside of the U.S. that does not require operator intervention. STD prefix codes are required and billing is based on call units, which are a fixed amount of money in the currency of that country. 32, 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 SBSE Society of Building Science Educators ), 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 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. (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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