COM Express Platform for Extended Temperature Range

The powerful COM Express™ platform MSC CXC-US15WP from MSC Vertriebs GmbH is designed for an extended temperature range of -40°C to +85°C. The board uses only components, which are qualified for the low and high temperatures. Furthermore, the design of the platform was adapted to the extended conditions.
Based on the Menlow XL platform, the standardized Computer-on-Modules MSC CXC-US15WP are available in two extended temperature versions; with the power-saving Intel® Atom™ processor Z510PT or Z520PT, clocked at a maximum of 1.33 GHz. In addition to the Intel® System Controller Hub US15WPT containing the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 500, the board comes with up to 2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Since the packages of the Intel® components that are designed for the extended temperature range are considerably larger than the commercial temperature component packages, the innovative CPU modules are implemented in the Compact COM Express™ form factor with dimensions of 95 mm x 95 mm. MSC supplies a passive heat sink and a heat spreader for the embedded modules.
The COM Express™ platform MSC CXC-US15WP is particularly suitable for use in visualization and HMI applications in the extended temperature range where not computing power, but rather low power dissipation and ruggedness are the main priorities. Target markets are the areas of transportation and automotive, industrial automation and medical technology.
In addition to compact MSC CXC-US15WP modules for the extended temperature range, MSC also has two modules with Intel® Atom™ Z530P and Z510P for the standard temperature range in its product portfolio. MSC positions these modules as cost-effective x86 COM Express™ entry-level products and thus ideally complements its more powerful platforms like the MSC CXB-A945M.
Besides 18/24-bit LVDS with up to 1366 x 768 pixel and SDVO with maximum 1920 x 1080 pixel, the comprehensive range of interfaces of the MSC CXC-US15WP platform includes two PCI Express™ x1, a PCI and a LPC interface. In addition, High Definition Audio, 8 x USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet and an Enhanced IDE port are provided.

Die MSC CXC-US15WP platform offers flexible boot possibilities, for example, by an optional integrated flash disk or by a Micro SD card connected via an on-board Micro SDIO slot.

For evaluation and design-in of its COM Express™ platform MSC offers evaluation baseboards with PC-type connectors. The CPU modules run under the operating systems Windows® XP (embedded) and Linux. Special starter kits for Linux are available on request.