SAM440ep-flex

FlexATX Motherboard w/ SoC AMCC 440ep CPU

SAM440ep is the second modular motherboard produced by ACube Systems Srl (see also SAM440ep). Its main characteristics are:

low power consumption
passive cooling
scalability
can run AmigaOS 4.1 :-)

The core of the Sam Flex 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 Sam Flex 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 533 MHz) and it does not require any active cooling system.

Technical data:

FlexATX Form Factor (21.6 x 17 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
2x DDR DIMM 100 slots, max 1 GB RAM
USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI NEC PCI controller (2 external ports, 2 internal ports)
Audio Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 Codec
Silicon Image 4 Serial ATA ports
Pericom 8150B PCI Bridge
FPGA Lattice XP with 80 pin I/O expansion connector
1 PCI slot - 32 bits, 66 MHz
2 PCI slots - 32 bits, 33 MHz
mini PCI Slot - 32 bits, 33 MHz (optional)
RTC with backup battery
UBoot 1.3.1

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.

If the FlexATX form factor doesn't meet your requirements, you should also have a look at the Mini ITX alternative, the SAM440ep.

Item		Price in EUR
	SAM-Flex System LCP 733: SAM440ep-flex 733 MHz (667 MHz CPU clocked at 733 MHz), 512 MB RAM, MicroATX Case 2039MBS (black) incl. 380W PSU, 320 GB SATA-II 3.5" HDD (OS 4.1 installed), Radeon 9250 (128 MB), AmigaOS 4.1 CD-ROM, OS 4.0 Mouse Mat, Amiga Sticker [Configure item] (Acube)	778.90
	SAM440ep-flex, FlexATX-Motherboard, 440ep/733 MHz (667 MHz CPU clocked at 733 MHz), incl. AmigaOS 4.1 [Configure item] (Acube)	584.90
	SAM-Flex System MSL 733: SAM440ep-flex 733 MHz (667 MHz CPU clocked at 733 MHz), 512 MB RAM, MicroATX Case MS-TECH LC-02 (black) incl. 400W PSU, 250 GB SATA-II HDD 3.5" (OS 4.1 installed), Radeon 9200 (64 MB), AmigaOS 4.1 CD-ROM, OS 4.0 Mouse Mat, Amiga Sticker This product is currently not available (no delivery date confirmed). [Configure item] (Acube)	744.90
	SAM-Flex System MST 733: SAM440ep-flex 733 MHz (667 MHz CPU clocked at 733 MHz), 512 MB RAM, HTPC Case MS-TECH MC-400 (black) incl. 350W PSU, 320 GB SATA-II 3.5" HDD (OS 4.1 installed), Radeon 9250 (128 MB), AmigaOS 4.1 CD-ROM, OS 4.0 Mouse Mat, Amiga Sticker This product is currently not available (no delivery date confirmed). [Configure item] (Acube)	799.99
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