Sam440ep-Flex

Sam440ep-Flex is a PowerPC modular motherboard engineered and produced by ACube Systems, and it is totally made in Italy.

Sam440ep-Flex motherboard
Sam440ep-Flex motherboard

The main features of this board are:

  • low power consumption
  • passive cooling
  • scalability

The core of the board is the PowerPC 440EP, a System On Chip (SoC) produced by Applied Micro under license from IBM.

Specifications:

  • FlexATX Form Factor (21,6x17 cm)
  • CPU Applied Micro PowerPC 440ep (667 and 733 Mhz) 
    • Integrated DDR 266 memory controller
    • Integrated PCI controller
    • Integrated Flash memory devices controller
    • Integrated USB 1.1 Host and 2.0 Device controller
    • 2 integrated Ethernet 10/100 ports
    • Up to 4 serial ports
    • 2 I2C interfaces
    • SPI interfaces
    • 64 pin for I/O General Purpose
  • 2 DDR DIMM slots, max 1 GB RAM
  • USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI NEC PCI controller (2 external ports, 2 internal ports)
  • Audio Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 Codec
  • Silicon Image 4 Serial ATA ports
  • Pericom 8150B PCI Bridge
  • FPGA Lattice XP with 80 pin I/O expansion connector
  • 1 PCI Slot - 32 bits, 66 Mhz
  • 2 PCI Slots -32 Bit, 33 Mhz
  • mini PCI Slot - 32 bits, 33 Mhz (optional)
  • RTC with backup battery
  • ZigBee module (optional)
  • UBoot 1.3.1

Please note, technical specifications may vary without notice