SAM460ex Board incl. AmigaOS 4.1

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Sam460eX is the third modular motherboard produced by ACube Systems Srl.

The core of the board is the PowerPC 460EX, a System On Chip (SoC) produced by AMCC under license from IBM.

One of the main features of the PowerPC AMCC 460EX is the presence, together with the CPU, of a number of integrated peripherals. This allowed us to build a complete system with a 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 northbridge/southbridge combination is not present on the board. Part of their functionalities are built into the CPU.

Specs

• Flex-ATX form factor (21.6 x 17 cm)
• 8 layers PCB
• AMCC 460ex 1,1 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)
• PCI slot, 32 bit, 66/33 Mhz, 3.3V
• 1x SATA2 port (* check notes)
• 64 pin for I/O General Purpose
• 6x USB2 EHCI/OHCI ports
• 1x 10/100/1000 Ethernet port (another GigaEthernet is optional)
• 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 USB card reader
• RTC clock
• Serial port, 8-wires
• I2C and SPI/I2C buses
• passive cooling (only on low speed CPUs)
• U-Boot 2010.06

Shipment

• one Sam460ex board
• one SATA data cable
• printed user manual in english
• backplane
• AmigaOS 4.1 OEM version

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