Pentium-M solution with ECC RAM for security relevant applications

Higher MTBF values with ECC RAM

The PIP10 of MPL AG comes not only as a fanless, robust, high quality industrial embedded PC with long-term availability. In addition, the highly reliable x86 Packaged embedded Industrial PC (PIP) features on-board soldered ECC DDR 333 SDRAM to increase the MTBF value.
ECC (Error Correcting Code) detects memory transfer errors as well as bad memory cells. The solution can even fix single bit errors, hence allowing the system to keep working. The ECC technology has been proven its needs for years on microprocessor boards but rarely on x86 boards as these designs are driven by the Home PC industry, in applications that are generally non-critical. The reason to use ECC RAM in an industrial solution is to increase the reliability, with the result of a better system up time (higher MTBF value).