Fri, 02 Apr 2010
Introducing Sam460ex
ACube Systems is happy to announce the new Sam460ex board. This board will join the Sam family together with the Sam440ep-flex.
Based around the AMCC 460ex SoC, the board offers many modern features like: PCI express slots, SATA2 port, Giga Ethernet, DDR2 RAM.
This is the complete features list:
- flex-ATX form factor (21.6 x 17 cm)
- 8 layers PCB
- AMCC 460ex SoC – upto 1.066 Ghz
- max 2 GB DDR2 Ram – 200-pin SODIMM up to 533 Mhz
- Silicon Motion SM502 embedded MoC (audio/video) max 64MB Gfx RAM
- Audio 5.1 Realtek ALC655 codec
- PCI-express 4x lanes slot (16x mechanical connector)
- PCI-express 1x lane slot (* check notes below)
- PCI slot, 32 bit, 66/33 Mhz, 3.3V
- 1x SATA2 port (* see notes below)
- 6x USB2 EHCI/OHCI ports
- 2x 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
- Lattice XP2 FPGA with 80 I/O pins expansion connector (optional)
- UMTS/GSM module (optional requires add-on card)
- 512 MB NAND Flash (optional)
- integrated SD card reader
- RTC clock
- Serial port, 8-wires
- I2C and SPI/I2C buses
- passive cooling
- U-Boot 2009.08
Notes: the SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time.
Price: the exact price will be announced when the board is available to the user (due the varying USD / EURO exchange rate) it will be in the range of EUR 600 - 650. The board will NOT replace the Sam440ex-flex board.