F50C
PowerPC MPC8548 Conduction Cooled SBC

Main Features
- 32-bit/33-MHz cPCI system slot
- 1 slot, 9 HP front, rear I/O
- MPC8548 (or MPC8543), up to 1.5 GHz
- Up to 2 GB (ECC) DDR2 SDRAM
- Up to 128 KB FRAM, 2 MB SRAM
- Up to 16 GB SSD Flash
- FPGA for user-defined I/O functions
- MENMON BIOS for PowerPC cards
- -40°C to +85°C Tcase screened
- Conduction cooling
The F50C is a versatile, rugged PowerPC based single-board computer for embedded applications with conduction cooling. It is controlled by an MPC8548, or optionally an MPC8543 PowerPC CPU (alternatively with encryption unit) with clock frequencies between 800 MHz and 1.5 GHz. The SBC is equipped with ECC-controlled, soldered-on DDR2 RAM for data storage, with up to 16 GB of solid-state Flash disk for program storage as well as industrial FRAM and SRAM.
The CPU card provides up to three Gigabit Ethernet channels, four USB ports, up to two SATA interfaces and up to 64 user-definable I/O lines controlled by its onboard FPGA. These interfaces can be combined in many variations and are all available at the rear using the board's J2 connector. For first operation and service purposes, the board also includes a UART-to-USB port accessible at the front panel.
The F50C is based on a standard 3U CompactPCI card that is embedded into a dedicated CCA frame for conduction cooling (CCA = conduction cooled assembly). The 9-HP assembly can be used with duagon's conduction-cooled subrack. It is designed for operation in a -40°C to +85°C environment. For convection cooling, the F50P model is also available, which comes with a tailor-made heat sink for extended temperatures.
The large FPGA on the F50C allows to add additional user-defined functions such asgraphics, touch, serial interfaces, fieldbus controllers, binary I/O etc. for the needs of the individual application in an extremely flexible way. Before boot-up of the system, the FPGA is loaded from boot Flash. Updates of the FPGA contents can be madeinside the boot Flash during operation.
Equipped with a PCI-bridge chip, the F50C offers a full CompactPCI interface (system slot functionality) for reliable system expansion. Apart from that, the F50C can also be used as a busless, stand-alone board, with power supply from the backplane.
The soldered components on the F50C withstand shock and vibration, and the board design is optimized for conformal coating.
The F50C comes with MENMON support. This firmware/BIOS can be used for bootstrapping operating systems (from disk, Flash or network), for hardware testing, or for debugging applications without running any operating system.
- 800MHz up to 1.5GHz
- Please see Standard Configurations for available standard versions.
- e500 PowerPC core with MMU and double-precision embedded scalar and vector floating-point APU
- Integrated Northbridge and Southbridge
- 2x32KB L1 data and instruction cache, 512KB/256KB L2 cache integrated in MPC8548/MPC8543
- Up to 2GB SDRAM system memory
- Soldered
- DDR2 with or without ECC
- Up to 300 MHz memory bus frequency, depending on CPU
- Up to 16GB soldered Flash disk (SSD solid state disk)
- Up to 32MB additional DDR2 SDRAM, FPGA-controlled, e.g. for video data
- 16MB boot Flash
- 2MB non-volatile SRAM
- With GoldCap backup
- 128KB non-volatile FRAM
- Serial EEPROM 4kbits for factory settings
- Parallel IDE (PATA)
- Up to 16GB soldered ATA Flash disk (SSD solid state disk)
- Serial ATA (SATA)
- Up to two ports via rear I/O J2
- Transfer rates up to 150 MB/s (1.5 Gbit/s)
- Via PCI-to-SATA bridge
- USB (host)
- Four USB 2.0 host ports
- Via rear I/O J2
- OHCI and EHCI implementation
- Data rates up to 480Mbit/s
- USB (client)
- One USB client port on Type A connector at front panel
- Via UART-to-USB converter
- For first operation and service
- Data rates up to 115.2kbit/s
- 16-byte transmit/receive buffer
- Handshake lines: none
- Ethernet
- Up to three 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet channels with MPC8548/E (two channels with MPC8543/E)
- Via rear I/O J2
- User-defined I/O
- FPGA-controlled
- Up to 64 I/O lines
- Connection via rear I/O J2
- Standard version provides 4 UARTs and 16 GPIO lines
- Four USB 2.0
- Up to three 1000Base-T Ethernet
- Up to two SATA
- Up to 64 I/O lines, FPGA-controlled
- Reduces Ethernet/SATA interfaces
- Standard factory FPGA configuration:
- The FPGA offers the possibility to add customized I/O functionality. See FPGA.
- Real-time clock with GoldCap backup
- Temperature sensor, power supervision and watchdog
- Compliance with CompactPCI Core Specification PICMG 2.0 R3.0
- System slot
- 32-bit/32-MHz PCIe-to-PCI bridge
- V(I/O): +3.3V (+5V tolerant)
- Board can be supplied with +5V, +3.3V and +12V from backplane, all other voltages are generated on the board
- Backplane J1 connector used only for power supply
- +5V (-3%/+5%), 800mA approx.
- +3.3V (-3%/+5%), 350mA approx.
- ±12V (-5%/+5%), 1A approx.
- Dimensions:
- CompactPCI 3U board embedded in duagon-standard 3U-CCA frame
- For use with duagon's conduction cooled subrack, 0701-0054
- Front panel: 9HP with cut-out for USB
- Weight: 620g
- Temperature range (operation):
- -40..+85°C Tcase (CCA frame)
- 0..+60°C Tcase (CCA frame) (with 16 GB SSD Flash disk)
- Convection cooled variety F50P also available
- Temperature range (storage): -40..+85°C
- Relative humidity (operation): max. 95% non-condensing
- Relative humidity (storage): max. 95% non-condensing
- Altitude: -300m to + 3,000m
- Shock: 15g/11ms
- Bump: 10g/16ms
- Vibration (sinusoidal): 1g/10..150Hz
- Linux
- VxWorks
- QNX (on request; support of the FPU is currently not provided by QNX)
- INTEGRITY (Green Hills Software) support available. Please contact Green Hills for further information.
- OS-9 (on request)
- For more information on supported operating system versions and drivers see Software.