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News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: 886LCD/mITX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2005
Mini-ITX range adds cost-effective
processors
Kontron is expanding its Mini-ITX range with high performance Intel Pentium 4 and Intel Celeron processor models with processors up to 3.06GHz.
Kontron introduced the first ATX-compatible Mini-ITX board with Intel Pentium M at the end of 2004 and is now releasing high performance Intel Pentium 4 and Intel Celeron processor models with processors up to 3.06GHz The 886LCD/mITX board is particularly attractive thanks to its long-term availability and the Intel 852GME/Intel 6300ESB chipset with integrated graphics
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Thus, the 886LCD/mITX is ideal for CPU intensive, cost sensitive industrial applications.
The board is equipped with all the relevant interfaces, including LVDS, an AGP/DVO slot, serial ATA 150 with RAID-0/1 support, four USB 2.0 ports, three 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, and four RS232 interfaces.
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Designed for long-term availability, the boards are used in point-of-sale or point-of-information applications, the gaming and infotainment industry, banking technology, measurement technology, and in industrial computing.
The 886LCD/mITX provides dazzling graphics thanks to the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 controller, which is integrated into the chipset.
The board has VGA, onboard LVDS and AGP/DVO graphic interfaces.
The AGP/DVO interface can be used for standard external AGP graphic card and for ADD cards, which allow a second LCD connection at low cost.
Several versions of ADD cards are also available from Kontron.
An onboard AC97/DD5.1 interface or an onboard stereo amplifier provides high quality sound.
In addition to a 32bit/33MHz PCI slot, the 886LCD/mITX also offers the future-proof serial ATA interface and soft RAID 0/1 for fail-safe data storage with multiple hard drives.
In addition to two traditional ATA-100s the 886LCD/mITX is enhanced by two fast serial ATA 150 IDE interfaces.
In contrast to parallel ATA technology, serial ATA offers point-to-point connection, allowing any connected storage medium to use the entire bandwidth.
Moreover, serial ATA offers hot plug, smaller plugs, longer cables and standardised layout and construction.
The 886LCD/mITX can mount up to 1Gbyte DDR333 SDRAM and has a front side bus speed of 400MHz.
Mini-ITX is a new ATX-compatible motherboard standard that has quickly gained great acceptance from professional users.
At a mere 170 x 170mm, Mini-ITX is the smallest ATX-compatible motherboard form factor.
These small dimensions enable its use in very compact housings and systems.
All Mini-ITX boards from Kontron are specially designed for use in embedded systems, and are therefore built to be robust and available in the long term. Request a free brochure from Kontron UK ...
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