System Overview
ROBO-8777VG2A User’s Manual
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Chapter 1
System Overview
1.1 Introduction
Industries hungry the increasing computing power of dual core processor on single
host board computer for a long time. However, the 130W TDP Pentium
®
D
processor is like a monster with big and heavy cooler. The cooler may introduce
damage of system as result of improper fixing. Risk inherent system, like a bomb
that could explode any time, anywhere. That’s why Portwell presented LGA775
processor with SHB form factor just now with Intel
®
latest Core 2 Duo processor.
Core 2 Duo processor was created based on Intel
®
latest Core Micro-Architecture
which combined high execution bandwidth, high energy / execution efficiency
features of traditional NetBurst Micro-Architecture (Pentium
®
4) and Mobile Micro-
Architecture (Pentium
®
M) and innovations such as wide dynamic execution, Intel
®
ligent memory access, advanced power capability, multi-core optimized cache and
single cycle SSE/2/3. The best of the new architecture offers up to 65W TDP that
even lower than well-recognized socket 478 processor on single host board with up
to 84W TDP.
ROBO-8777VG2A, a PICMG 1.0 PCI/ISA single host board adopts Intel
®
965 chipset
that supports up to Intel
®
1,066MHz FSB Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB DDR2-800
system memory. 965 equipped the 4th generation Intel
®
integrated graphics
controller, Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 that supports DirectX 9.0, Shader Model
2.0, 256MB of video memory
As replacement of socket 478 Pentium
®
4 single board computer, ROBO-8777VG2A
supports dual Gigabit Ethernet port, four SATA 300 ports, six USB 2.0 ports, dual
serial port, one parallel port, GPIO and Watchdog timer as usual. However, some
functions are evolved with higher bandwidth such like PCI Express x1 interface
Gigabit Ethernet compares to PCI, SATA 300 rather than SATA 150. ISA expansion
of ROBO-8777VG2A is building as standard function.
ROBO-8777VG2A brief specifications:
Support Intel
®
Core 2 Duo, Pentium
®
D, Pentium
®
4, Celeron
®
D processor in
an LGA775 socket that equipped with dual core, Hyper-Threading, EM64T,
EIST, XD & VT technologies
Dual 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMMM socket, support for DDR2 1066/800/533
DIMMs, up to 4GB system memory
Intel
®
Q965 integrated GMA 3000 on-board graphics interface
Intel
®
Q965 integrated GMA 3000 on-board graphics interface