14 SBC347A 3U VPX Single Board Computer
Publication No. 500-9300527837-000 Rev. A.0
1 • Introduction
The Abaco Systems SBC347A* is a member of the VPXcel3 family of 3U VPX
Intel
®
processor-based single board computers (SBCs). This family is aimed at
processing, communications, and display applications in the military and
aerospace market.
The PC-like SBC347A implements the Intel Broadwell Core™ i7 Mobile (+ECC)
architecture at up to 2.7 GHz, and has I/O interfaces including 10GBASE-T
Ethernet (10 GbE), USB, SATA, and General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO). The
Core i7 processor also provides a DDR3 SDRAM interface with error checking
and correction (ECC). An Intel Series 8 peripheral controller hub (PCH) bridge
provides three SATA interfaces, four USB ports, a low pin count (LPC) bus, and a
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) (supporting SPI boot Flash). The SBC347A also
provides x8 and optional x4 and x2 Gen2-capable PCI Express (PCIe) ports to the
backplane for connection to other cards in the system.
The SBC347A is supplied with a BIOS, supporting operating systems such as
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
7 (64-bit), Linux
®
, and VxWorks
®
.