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News Release from: Connect Tech | Subject: Xtreme/104-Express serial board
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 April 2008
Serial board handles new specifications
Fail-safe 1/8th load transceivers allow up to 256 devices on a bus and ensure that the network operates glitch-free through power-up and power-down.
Connect Tech has released the Xtreme/104-Express serial board, designed in support of the recently adopted PCI/104-Express specification The Xtreme/104-Express offers users a communication solution that has high data rates, rugged reliability and long-term sustainability for the industrial and embedded PC market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Xtreme/104-Plus is a serial adapter that combines the best of Connect Tech's universal PCI and PC/104 product lines.
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"As a member of the PC/104 Consortium, we've voted and fully recognise the benefits that PCI/104-Express will bring", said Michele Kasza, VP Sales of Connect Tech.
"We embrace the new specification and all the advantages that it has to offer our customers".
Xtreme/104-Express represents Connect Tech's highest throughput to date.
A flexible, built-in baud rate prescaler allows almost any baud rate to be matched with a high level of accuracy.
Fail-safe 1/8th load transceivers allow up to 256 devices on a bus and ensure that the network operates glitch-free through power-up and power-down.
Xtreme/104-Express also supports full industrial temperature range operation from -40 to +85C and features filtering on all ports to help improve immunity to EMI and noisy transmission lines for guaranteed dependability in communications.
The Xtreme/104-Express supports 9bit data modes, allowing an easy migration path for RS-485 customers who make use of this feature.
Its design provides users with a standards-compliant, high-performance communications solution that provides scalability and reliability for critical applications.
This PCI/104-Express serial board is suitable for military, aerospace, medical instrumentation and industrial control.
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