Sam460ex

Sam460ex is a PowerPC modular motherboard engineered and produced by ACube Systems and it is totally made in Italy.

Sam 460ex motherboard
Sam 460ex motherboard

The core of the board is the PowerPC 460EX, a System On Chip (SoC) from Applied Micro which allowed us to build a PowerPC motherboard running at 1.10 Ghz, scalable for different uses and still fanless and very low-power consumption!

Specifications:

  • flex-ATX form factor (21.6 x 17 cm)
  • 8 layers PCB
  • Applied Micro PPC460ex SoC – upto 1.10 Ghz
  • max 2 GB DDR2 Ram – 200-pin SODIMM
  • 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, 33 Mhz, 3.3V
  • 1x SATA2 port (* check notes)
  • 6x USB2 EHCI/OHCI ports + 1 USB 1.1 port
  • 1x 10/100/1000 Ethernet port (another 10/100/1000 Ethernet is optional)
  • Lattice XP2 FPGA with 80 I/O pins expansion connector (connector is 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 2015.b

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