Kontron AM4140 AdvancedMC processor module

The AdvancedMC processor module AM4140 from Kontron is equipped with a Freescale QorIQ P4040/80 CPU. With up to eight cores at 1.5 GHz and high-speed fabrics at the heart, it is suitable for parallel, multithreaded applications on MicroTCA integrated platforms.

The module incorporates the Freescale QorIQ P4040/80 4/8-core processor with cores based on the e500 power architecture. With high-speed frame handlers and multiple high-speed connections like serial rapid IO, 10 GbE and PCI Express, it provides a fast dual-channel memory of up to 8 GB ECC-RAM.

The module provides flexible configuration of high-speed fabrics. On AMC ports 4-7, 4x SERDES lines can be configured either as PCI Express (root complex or end point) or serial rapid IO ports (host or agent).

Serial rapid IO and PCI Express target applications require close programming to the chip without extensive overhead and with minimum latencies. AMC ports 8-11 may be configured either for serial rapid IO, PCI Express, 10 GbE or 4x GbE.

In addition, it supports 3x GbE channels which can be configured to AMC port 0 plus 2x GbE at the front or 2x GbE on AMC ports 0,1 plus 1x GbE at the front.

It supports usage in systems with or without the MicroTCA carrier hub to reduce costs and speed up system development and supports different options of booting the OS, either from the Micro SDHC card, the NOR or the NAND flash (for rugged applications).