SAM440ep
Mini ITX Motherboard w/ SoC AMCC 440ep CPU
+++ PRODUCT DISCONTINUED +++
If you are looking for a board to run
AmigaOS 4.x on, please have a look at the
SAM440ep-flex or the
SAM460ex.
SAM440ep is the first modular motherboard produced by ACube Systems Srl
(see also
SAM440ep-flex).
Its main characteristics are:
- low power consumption
- passive cooling
- scalability
- can run AmigaOS 4.1 :-)
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
to build a complete system with 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 usual northbridge/southbridge combination is
not present on the board since parts of their functionalities are
already built into the CPU.
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.
Technical data:
- Mini ITX Form Factor (17x17 cm)
- CPU SoC AMCC 440ep with:
- integrated DDR 266 MHz memory controller
- integrated PCI controller
- integrated Flash memory devices controller
- integrated USB 1.1 Host and 2.0 Device controller
- 2 integrated Ethernet 10/100 ports
- up to 4 serial ports
- 2 I2C interfaces
- SPI interface
- 64 pin for I/O General Purpose
- 512 MB RAM
- USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI NXP PCI controller
- Audio Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 Codec
- Silicon Image 4 Serial ATA ports
- ATI RADEON Mobility M9 with 64mb RAM graphic chip
- Pericom 8150B PCI Bridge
- FPGA Lattice XP with 80 pin I/O expansion connector
- PCI Slot - 32 bits, 33 Mhz
- mini PCI Slot - 32 bits, 33 Mhz (optional)
- RTC with backup battery
- UBoot 1.3.1
Package Contents:
- SAM440ep board complete with 512MB DDR RAM and metallic
heatsinks on both cpu and gfx chip
- SATA data cable
- DVI to VGA converter
- Printed user manual
- Orders including
AmigaOS 4.1
will also include a free OS4 mouse mat, an Amiga sticker
and a Boingball pin :-)
The following Operating Systems are available or under
development:
- AmigaOS 4.1
- Aros
- Debian Lenny
- Fedora 9
- Ubuntu
- CruxPPC
- FreeBSD
You can configure this board, please click the link
"Configure Item" below the product text.
You can certainly also add items not available in the
configuration menu, such as the
Nexus PSILE 10
case.
If the Mini ITX form factor doesn't meet your requirements,
you should also have a look at the Flex ATX alternative, the
SAM440ep-flex.
|
