MEN Micro’s new, rugged 3U CompactPCI (cPCI) family consists of two single board computers (SBCs) and a rack that provide reliable performance in temperatures as extreme as -40°C and +85°C. 

In addition to the standard, convection-cooled F50P SBC, the new line includes the conduction-cooled F50C that easily fits into Men Micro’s new conduction-cooled rack.  The new rack accommodates readily available, less costly 3U cards designed for ventilated systems, when mounted within conduction-cooled adapter frames. 

Both the F50P and F50C SBCs offer the choice of either powerful MPC8548 and MPC8543 PowerPC processors running at speeds up to 1.5 GHz as well as up to 2 MB of SDRAM, 2 MB non-volatile SRAM, 128 K non-volatile FRAM and up to 16 GB of Flash solid state disk storage.

Each board provides versatile front- and rear-connection I/O options including a minimum of four USB ports, up to three 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet channels and up to two SATA ports. Additional FPGA-controlled I/O, a standard on conduction-cooled models and optional on convection-cooled models, provides the extreme flexibility of up to 62 additional I/O lines for user-defined functions in application-specific needs such as graphics, touch screens, serial interfaces, fieldbus controllers and binary I/O.