Product category:
Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Kontron UK | Subject: JRexplus-LX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 December 2007
Compact embedded board is made for
expansion
The JRexplus series are the first 3.5in SBCs that can be used with most currently available PC/104-plus expansion cards.
The JRexplus series of single board computers are the first 3.5in SBCs from Kontron with a standardised PC/104-plus expansion slot and PCIbus performance, enabling them to be used with most currently available PC/104-plus expansion cards Users benefit from uniform connectors that are located in the same place on all standard JRexplus products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In terms of size, the JRexplus footprint is only 102 x 147mm, and the widely accepted 3.5in format can easily be integrated into a wide variety of standard enclosures.
The first member of the JRexplus series is the JRexplus-LX single board computer.
It is equipped with a fanless AMD Geode LX800 CPU drawing only 7W.
For hard drives and other storage media, the new JRexplus single board computer family offers two SATA and one PATA interfaces.
A Gigabit Ethernet interface is also available for the first time for extremely fast network data exchange.
The Kontron JRexplus-LX SBC also comes with four USB 2.0 and two RS232 interfaces as well as LPT, floppy and PS/2 mouse.
four GPIOs and a CF card on the back side.
Additional I/O devices are implemented via the wireless PC/104-plus slot with PCI performance.
The SO-DIMM slot supports up to 1Gbyte of DDR RAM.
In addition to classic CRT output, LCD flat panels with resolutions up to UXGA (1600 x 1200) are controlled directly and with minimum cost via the JILI30 LVDS interface for which there are already a large number of cables for different types of displays.
TTL flat panels are connected via an LVDS-TTL adapter.
Power supply is via a 5V single supply.
Like all other JRex products, the Kontron JRexplus-LX offers long term availability and is delivered plug-and-work in order to reduce customers' design-in periods.
The new Kontron JRexplus-LX SBC is available in Q1 2008.
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