Introducing Sam460ex

ACube Systems is happy to announce the new Sam460ex board. This board will join the Sam family together with the Sam440ep-flex.

Based around the AMCC 460ex SoC, the board offers many modern features like: PCI express slots, SATA2 port, Giga Ethernet, DDR2 RAM.

This is the complete features list:

• flex-ATX form factor (21.6 x 17 cm)
• 8 layers PCB
• AMCC 460ex SoC – upto 1.066 Ghz
• max 2 GB DDR2 Ram – 200-pin SODIMM up to 533 Mhz
• Silicon Motion SM502 embedded MoC (audio/video) max 64MB Gfx RAM
• Audio 5.1 Realtek ALC655 codec
• PCI-express 4x lanes slot (16x mechanical connector)
• PCI-express 1x lane slot (* check notes below)
• PCI slot, 32 bit, 66/33 Mhz, 3.3V
• 1x SATA2 port (* see notes below)
• 6x USB2 EHCI/OHCI ports
• 2x 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
• Lattice XP2 FPGA with 80 I/O pins expansion connector (optional)
• UMTS/GSM module (optional requires add-on card)
• 512 MB NAND Flash (optional)
• integrated SD card reader
• RTC clock
• Serial port, 8-wires
• I2C and SPI/I2C buses
• passive cooling
• U-Boot 2009.08

Notes: the SATA2 port and the PCI-e 1x slot are mutually exclusive, only one of them can be used at a time.

Price: the exact price will be announced when the board is available to the user (due the varying USD / EURO exchange rate) it will be in the range of EUR 600 - 650. The board will NOT replace the Sam440ex-flex board.