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No compromise for embedded P4 board

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Mar 11, 2004

The Aaeon PCM-8200 is a 5.25in-format SBC available with either a 478-pin socket for Pentium M and Celeron M processors up to 1.6GHz or with a 479-ball BGA Low Voltage Pentium M processor onboard.

The Aaeon PCM-8200 is a 5.25in-format SBC available with either a 478-pin socket for Pentium M and Celeron M processors up to 1.6GHz, or with a 479-ball BGA Low Voltage Pentium M processor onboard (up to 1.1GHz).

The PCM-8200 is designed for P4-class performance with the long lifetime (typically 3-5 years) and low power consumption of an industrial board.

The PCM-8200, designed for high-end industrial automation applications, will make an ideal choice for dusty, temperature-sensitive environments.

Its longevity will make it attractive to kiosk and POS designers who value a stable design platform.

Built to an uncompromising specification, the PCM-8200 uses the Intel 855GME chipset with the new Intel 6300ESB I/O controller south bridge.

The board can therefore provide two serial ATA channels, one parallel ATA channel (UDMA-100), four USB2.0 ports (one reserved for embedded USB disk-on-module), plus four serial ports, extra digital I/O (eight TTL inputs and eight TTL outputs) and a two-stage watchdog timer.

Impressively, the 184-pin memory socket holds up to 1Gbyte of DDR-333 SDRAM.

The built-in graphics controller further compliments the list of high-end features.

It is capable of directly driving LCD displays of up to 1280 x 1024 resolution through a dual channel LVDS interface.

Audio is also provided onboard, in AC97 3D surround sound (5.1-channel) format.

A key power-saving feature is that the 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet controller (Intel 82541) will power down when no Ethernet traffic is detected, but can run up to 1Gbit/s when in use.