Slimline board serves up power savings

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 11, 2004

Slim yet versatile, the GENE-6330 is specially designed to serve space-constrained, heat-sensitive, weight-concerned market segments such as ultradense servers and mobile devices.

Slim yet versatile, the GENE-6330 is specially designed to serve space-constrained, heat-sensitive, weight-concerned market segments such as ultradense servers and mobile devices.

The onboard Transmeta Crusoe TM5400 boasts the industry's highest performance/power-consumption ratio, and typically operates at less than 1W.

Heavy-duty applications such as DVD movies consume on average less than 2W.

These figures show its revolutionary power management technique that much of the processor functionality is implemented by Transmeta's LongRun technology.

It is designed to deliver performance when necessary and conserve power when processor demand is low.

Therefore it can eliminate performance and energy wastage to make the most efficient use of power, for the longest battery life.

The ATX version of the GENE-6330 also complies with ACPI standard and supports three levels of power saving: doze mode, suspend mode and standby mode.

This low power consumption enables the GENE-6330 to operate as a fanless platform.

Other low-profile design features include onboard 64Mbyte RAM, SODIMM socket, and mini-PCI slot.

They make GENE-6330 the thinnest board in the Aaeon Subcompact Board series, which measure only 26mm high.

The onboard SMI 712 LynxEM+ graphic chip provides TFT and DSTN panel support for typical high-resolution panels and enhanced DSTN display quality by using its 64-colour shading.

Meanwhile the GENE-6330 supports one primary and one secondary display as well as complete dual-display capability to allow two applications to operate at the same time across two display devices such as CRT and LCD or interlaced TV.

In addition, through the driver setting, the GENE-6330 allows images on the screen to be quickly rotated to 90, 180 and 270 degrees, a function that is very useful in applications such as desktop publishing and word processing.

The GENE-6330 promises maximum expansion possibilities with the most cost-effective expansion standards: PCMCIA or mini-PCI.

With numerous off-the-shelf PCMCIA/mini-PCI modules, designers get easy access to solutions ranging from IEEE1394, modem, storage, sound card, SCSI card, audio/video capture card, wireless LAN module, and Bluetooth module.

The board also includes high-speed serial ports (one RS232, one RS232/422/485), one multimode (ECP/EPP/SPP) parallel port, four USB ports, a keyboard/PS/2 mouse interface, two floppy drives and an Ultra DMA33 Enhanced IDE interface.

Furthermore, a type II CompactFlash slot offers a larger memory bank for data storage of all types.

One RJ45 10/100Base-Tx Ethernet port provides superior networking access and the integrated AC97 2.0/SoundBlaster legacy audio enables better presentation for multimedia applications.

The GENE-6330 also provides complete OS support under Window 98, 2000, Me, NT 4.0, XP, WinCE.NET, Embedded Windows XP and Linux RedHat 7.3.