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Board Design
The SBC (Single Board Computer) CM6 is a PowerPC with single/dual core
CPU. It is equipped with many functions a conventional SBC can only offer
with several add-on cards. The CM6 offers configurations for either convection
cooled or conduction cooled environment. Extension boards can be connected
via the CPCI interface and/or PMC interface. The minimized board size and the
number of interfaces and functions allow the CM6 to be used in many
applications. See the following block diagram for the board design.
Figure 2: Block diagram of CM6
Design Features
The CM6 CompactPCI Single Board Computer features:
Microprocessor
Single or dual e600 core Freescale
®
PowerPC
™
MPC8641
On-chip 32 Kbytes instr 32 kBytes data first level cache
On-chip 1Mbyte second level cache integrated
Integrated system logic required for networking, storage and general purpose
embedded applications.
Freescale
®
single core PowerPC
™
MPC8641 processor 1000 MHz-1500 MHz
Freescale
®
dual core PowerPC
™
MPC8641D processor 1000 MHz-1333 MHz
DRAM
DDR2 memory controller with one bank,
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