Product category:
Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Parvus Corp | Subject: SpacePC 8500
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 November 2004
Rugged board embeds frugal Celeron
processing
The SpacePC 8500 is a PCI-104 form factor single board computer reliably designed with an ultra-low-voltage 400MHz Intel Celeron processor and Intel 815E chipset.
The SpacePC 8500 is a PCI-104 form factor single board computer reliably designed with an ultra-low-voltage 400MHz Intel Celeron processor and Intel 815E chipset Offering very low power consumption, the 8500 Series CPU does not require any fan cooling and is especially suited for embedded aerospace, defence and transportation applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Conforming to the new PCI-only architecture of the PC/104 specification (known as PCI-104), the SpacePC 8500 Series takes advantage of a high speed PCIbus yet in a small rugged form factor.
This embedded CPU module measures only 90 x 96mm in size and integrates a wealth of onboard peripherals.
Standard features include four USB ports, a Fast Ethernet interface (10/100Mbit/s), two RS232 serial ports, a parallel port, a floppy port, a VGA interface, an LVDS LCD/flat panel interface, an AC97 bus, auxiliary power, keyboard and mouse connectors and an Ultra DMA IDE controller that supports any type of IDE Flash devices (DiskonModule, CompactFlash and Flash disk).
Like Parvus' other PC/104 and PC/104-Plus SpacePC CPU modules, the 8500 Series is compatible with Windows CE, XP Embedded, Linux, QNX Neutrino, and VxWorks operating systems.
A preinstalled ROM-DOS OS kernel, along with the system BIOS, comes installed in the board's 1Mbyte Flash EPROM to facilitate rapid customer implementation.
A SODIMM memory socket is installed onboard to support PC100-133 SDRAM.
The SpacePC 8500 is expected to be in stock by late Q4 2004.
Prospective customers can pre-order now.
The board with 256Mbyte of SDRAM starts at $599 each in volume orders over 100 units.
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