Abaco XVB603 Intel® Xeon® Based VME Single Board

Abaco Systems’ XVB603 6U VME single board computer (SBC) features the Intel® Xeon® quad core processor (up to 8 MByte last level cache) with error checking and correction (ECC) support, integrated graphics and PCI Express® (PCIe®) channels. The XVB603 is also equipped with Intel’s CM238 chipset, supporting PCIe Gen 3, allowing higher data transfer rates and more PCIe channels.  

The CM238 chipset also provides SATA, USB 3.0, graphic ports, SMBus, LPC, and SPI design on the XVB603.

1.1  Features 

• Single-slot 6U VME single board computer 

• Intel Xeon quad core processor 

• Two channels of soldered DDR4 SDRAM with ECC up to 16 GByte 

• Up to 8 MByte internal CPU shared cache 

• Up to 256 GBytes of removable SATA M.2 Flash (optional) 

• Onboard expansion site (supporting either XMC or PMC) 

o 1x XMC – x8 PCIe  

o 1x PMC – PCI-X up to 133 MHz 

• XMC/PMC expansion board (EXP238) available via onboard XMC site (only available on 

specific option of XVB603). See Appendix E for details. 

o 3x XMC – x4 PCIe 

o 1x PMC – PCI-X up to 133 MHz 

o 2x PMC – PCI-X up to 66 MHz 

• Comprehensive range of front and rear I/O features: 

1.1.1   Front I/O: (Option-Dependent) 

• 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports via Intel I210 

• 1x VESA® DisplayPort™ 1.2 port 

• 3x USB 3.0 ports 

• 1x COM port 

• 1x power button  

• 1x eSATA  

1.1.2   Rear I/O via Transition Module: (Option-Dependent) 

• 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports 

o 1x Gigabit Ethernet via Intel I219 

o 1x Gigabit Ethernet via Intel I210 

• 2x digital visual interface – digital (DVI-D) ports 

• 4x SATA ports, Gen 2 capable 

• 2x COM ports 

• 2x USB 2.0 ports 

• 8x general purpose input/output (GPIO) 

• 1x PMC rear I/O 

• 2x Mezzio connectors (PMC/XMC)

1.1.3   Other Features 

• UEFI Flash and UEFI backup Flash 

• Optional extended operating temperature range 

• Three levels of ruggedization 

The XVB603 offers one optional onboard mezzanine expansion site for enhanced system flexibility, 

PMC- and XMC-compatible. 

Memory resources include up to 16 GByte DDR4 SDRAM, 512 Kbit nonvolatile random-access memory 

(NVRAM) and up to 256 GByte M.2 removable SATA Flash drive. 

Software choices include built-in-test (BIT) plus OS (64-bit only) support for Microsoft® Windows® 10, 

Linux® Fedora and Red Hat Linux, and VxWorks®.