Sam440ep-Flex is a PowerPC modular motherboard engineered and produced by ACube Systems and it is totally made in Italy.

The main features of this board are:

• low power consumption
• passive cooling
• scalability

The core of the board is the PowerPC 440EP, a System On Chip (SoC) produced by AMCC under license from IBM.

One of the main features of the PowerPC AMCC 440EP is the presence, together with the CPU, of a number of integrated peripherals. This allowed us to build a complete system with a huge savings of both development and debug time, with less components and space used on the PCB. This also results in a significant cost reduction for the customer.

As a consequence the northbridge/southbridge combination is not present on the board. Part of their functionalities are built into the CPU.

For the specific model of CPU mounted on SAM, the 440EP, we have the following integrated peripherals:

• DDR memory controller
• PCI controller
• USB 1.1 host and USB 2.0 device controller
• 2 Ethernet 10/100 ports
• Up to 4 serial ports
• 2 I2C interfaces
• SPI interface
• 64 pins for General Purpose I/O

The 440EP chip has a size of 35x35 mm, with a PBGA packaging (456 balls). It is built with CMOS (0.13 um) technology, has a very low power consumption (only 3 Watts at 533Mhz) and it does not require any active cooling system.

Sam440ep-flex is available in these configurations:

Mainboard only

• 667 Mhz CPU: 360.00 EUR (432,00 EUR including VAT where applicable)
• 733 Mhz CPU: 410.00 390,00 EUR (492,00 468,00 EUR including VAT where applicable)
• 512 MB DDR RAM: 32.40 EUR (38.80 EUR including VAT where applicable)
• Radeon 9250 PCI 128 MB: 36.00 EUR (43.20 EUR including VAT where applicable)

"Complete system" bundle

"Vento" bundle consist of:

• a Sam440ep-Flex board with AMCC440ep@733Mhz
• 1 GB DDR RAM
• ATI 9250 128MB Graphics Card
• Maxtor 160GB SATA HD
• SATA DVD Recorder
• Case Asus model "TM-B12" "Vento" series

Price: 583,00 563,00 EUR (699,60 675,60 EUR including VAT where applicable)

Together with a board you must purchase a copy of AmigaOS 4.1 for Sam440ep.

Optionally you can also complete your order with:

• Logitech black optical mouse: 9.00 EUR (10.80 euro with VAT where applicable)
• Multimedia Monitor Neovo H-W19: 85.00 EUR (102 euro with VAT where applicable)
• Logitech Internet Pro 350 or Internet deluxe 250 keyboard: 12.00 EUR (14.40 euro with VAT where applicable)
  (please note, keyboards are available only with italian layout)

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All prices excluding local taxes and shipping costs from Italy. For European countries, Italian VAT (20%) is applied.