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Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: EPIC/PM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2007
Board embeds desktop-type features
EPIC standard board offers an unrivalled number of front mounted I/O connections for reduced cabling and ease of accessibility.
New from Kontron, the EPIC/PM is the second in the company's series of EPIC standard boards recognised by the PC/104 Consortium The Kontron EPIC/PM is based on the 90nm Intel Pentium M 745 processor and offers complete PC/104-Plus functionality with both PCI and ISA expansion
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Besides all this, the Kontron EPIC/PM boasts an Intel Pentium M 745 processor running at 1.8GHz with 2Mbyte L2 cache for excellent performance.
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The Kontron EPIC/PM offers an unrivalled number of front mounted I/O connections for reduced cabling and ease of accessibility.
It includes four high-speed USB 2.0 interfaces, two 10/100Base-T LAN ports, PS/2 keyboard and mouse, VGA, 5.1 sound, LPT, and a serial interfaces.
For solid state operation, a compact Flash socket is provided on the front.
Additional onboard interfaces include two USB 2.0 interfaces, three COM ports, an 8-pin GPIO interface, EIDE, floppy and a CompactFlash socket.
System memory of up to 2Gbyte is possible with two DDR SODIMM sockets.
VGA and 18bit LVDS support is handled by Intel's Extreme Graphics 2 engine which is integrated into the chipset and allows up to 2 x 32Mbyte of UMA graphics memory and dual independent display support.
DVO is also supported onboard.
The LVDS interface is supported by JILI, a universally functional interface from Kontron that is available for all standard panels.
This allows OEMs to choose a display that best fits the application without concern for panel interface compatibility.
A watchdog timer, real-time clock, LANBoot and DarkBoot round out the feature set.
These features are part of the software toolsuite EVA, which is included with every Kontron EPIC product.
Series shipments of the EPIC/PM will start in Q2 2007. Request a free brochure from Kontron UK ...
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