VULCAN Technical Manual
Introduction
© 2007 Eurotech Ltd Issue D
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Introduction
The VULCAN is a low power PC/104 compatible single board computer based on the
Intel 533MHz IXP425 XScale network processor. The IXP425 is a 32 bit ARM
Architecture v.5TE compliant CPU combined with a comprehensive set of integrated
peripherals including two 10/100Mb/s Ethernet Interfaces, three Network Processor
Engines (NPE) for Layer-2 packet/frame network processing,
Encryption/Authentication Hardware Acceleration, PCI 2.2 Interface, Expansion bus
Interface operating at 33MHz, 32 bit SDRAM Interface operating at 133MHz, two
UART interfaces and a watchdog timer.
The VULCAN board offers a wide range of features that make it ideal for embedded
communications and networking solutions.
The board is available in the following standard variants:
•
VULCAN-533-M64-F16
Intel IXP425 533MHz CPU, Mx=64M DRAM, Fx=16M
FLASH
•
VULCAN-533-M64-F32
Intel IXP425 533MHz CPU, Mx=64M DRAM, Fx=32M
FLASH
An industrial temperature variant is available on request. For alternative memory
configurations, please contact Eurotech. See
Appendix A - Contacting Eurotech
, page
This product was known as the MERCURY until 30
th
June 2005. The internal
(numeric) product codes used to identify this product and its variants have not
changed. Please contact our sales team if you have any questions (see
page