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News Release from: Review Display Systems | Subject: AEC-6810
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 July 2004
Embedded PC comes in ruggedised housing
The AEC-6810 embedded PC from Aaeon Technology is billed as the world's smallest, highest performing, multifunction PC enclosure.
The AEC-6810 embedded PC from Aaeon Technology is billed as the world's smallest, highest performing, multifunction PC enclosure With exceptional vibration proofing and attention to thermal performance, this highly engineered unit, built around Aaeon's successful Gene-6310B motherboard, will catch the eye of designers in such markets as environmental monitoring, building automation, and transportation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AEC-6810 chassis is constructed using aluminium alloy, measures 212 x 64 x 107mm and weighs 2.1kg.
It can be wall-mounted as standard or DIN-rail mounted with an additional bracket.
The power inlet requires 9-30V DC, and this supplies an internal 30W DC/DC regulator.
The unit can be booted from externally accessible CompactFlash card, and the designers have usefully added a locking arm to keep the card firmly in place.
Alternatively, the unit has room for a 2.5in HDD, which is mounted on vibration dampers.
For vibration tests, the unit passes 2g (5-500Hz random) without HDD, and 1g (5-500Hz random) with HDD; shock passes 15g (11ms) peak acceleration.
The CPU inside is a 667MHz Via Eden, with VT8606/VT82C686B chipset, and the board supports up to 512Mbyte 144-pin system memory.
Connectivity includes 10/100Base-T Ethernet, four USB1.1 ports, four serial ports, a parallel port, PS/2 keyboard/mouse, TV-out (S-Video and RCA), audio in/out and analogue VGA output to remote display.
The board also supports power management; it is APM compliant and supports doze, standby and suspend modes.
In addition, the board's watchdog timer can be programmed to reset the system or generate a system interrupt in case of a program bug or SMI event.
RDS can provide an SDK for application development in Windows CE.NET V4.2, and the board will also support Windows XP Embedded.
Both these operating systems are designed to fit onto a Compact Flash card.
However, if the user wishes to run from Windows 2000 or full XP, then this will usually require the hard drive option.
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