Sam440ep

Sam440ep was the first modular motherboard produced by ACube Systems Srl.[4]

• 400/533/600/667 MHz AMCC PowerPC 440EP SoC processor
• Cache L1/L2: 32KB/-
• 128/256/512 MB 266 MHz DDR SDRAM soldered to the motherboard
• 1× 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI slot
• 1× Flash memory device controller
• 4× USB2 ports, 1× USB1
• 2× Ethernet 10/100 ports
• 4× Serial ATA ports
• Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 audio
• ATI Radeon Mobility M9 graphics with 64 MB VRAM, s-video and DVI out.
• GPIO expansion connector
• Lattice XP expansion FPGA

The specifications are the same as for the revisions before, except for:

• 1× DDR RAM slot supporting up to 512 MB RAM (in place of soldered RAM modules)

There is no graphics chip on the Sam440ep-flex, so you have to use a PCI-graphics board.[9]

• 400/533/667 MHz AMCC PowerPC 440EP SoC processor
• Cache L1/L2: 32KB/-
• 512 MB DDR SDRAM soldered to the motherboard
• 1× 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI slot
• 2× 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI slot
• USB 2.0 OHCI/EHCI NXP PCI controller
• 2× Ethernet 10/100 ports
• 4× Serial ATA ports
• Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 audio
• GPIO expansion connector
• FPGA Lattice XP with 80 pin I/O expansion connector
• Zigbee module (optional)

The specifications[10] are the same as for the flex prototype, except for:

• 2× DDR SDRAM, max 1 GB RAM

On 2 April 2009, ACube announced the availability of SAM440ep-flex revision 2, it has the same specifications as the flex prototype except for:[11]

• 667/733/800 MHz AMCC PowerPC 440EP SoC processor (passive cooling, 733 and 800 MHz are achieved by overclocking)
• Cache L1/L2: 32KB/-
• 2× DDR SDRAM, max 1 GB RAM
• RAM clock running at 133 MHz (667 and 800 MHz models) or at 147 MHz (733 MHz models)[12]