PCI Express boosts industrial processing

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 9, 2004

Available now from Crellon Microsystems is a range of PCI Express industrial PC solutions from Adlink Technology.

Available now from Crellon Microsystems is a range of PCI Express industrial PC solutions from Adlink Technology.

The Blue Express series is an ideal solution for high speed and high performance needs.

Blue Express gives optimum performance with high bus bandwidth, fast communication speeds, high end computing power and powerful VGA graphics.

It is designed to be easily integrated into existing environments thereby significantly reducing system upgrade costs.

Adlink also offers compatible cards to further reduce customer's time to market.

Blue Express offers the following benefits over traditional industrial PC solutions: higher bus bandwidth - supports PCI-X, four times faster than traditional PCs; faster Ethernet - 64bit Gigabit Ethernet transfers; performance CPUs - Intel Pentium 4 and dual Xeon options; and powerful display - ATI 9600 (AGP 8x) VGA.

A choice of two system sizes is available: a 2U system with two PCI-X and two PCI slots and a 4U system with four PCI-X and eight PCI slots along with drive bays, PSU and cooling.

A wide range of I/O is also available, ranging from SCSI to DAQ.