SBC runs two flat panels at once

The ECB660 is a half-size complete PC board, measuring 184 x 122mm, not including brackets and connectors.

The ECB660 is a half-size complete PC board, measuring 184 x 122mm, not including brackets and connectors.

In keeping with Evalue's other even smaller products it takes a Socket370 CPU and is designed with integration and low power consumption in mind.

With a PIII at 800MHz with 128Mbyte of SDRAM the power consumption is well below 6A on the 5V rail with negligible drain on the 12V rail.

With a VIA C3 CPU the power consumed can be as low as 25% of a Pentium-based solution.

The card has 10/100BaseT Ethernet, all peripheral and disk control and sound onboard.

The card also has a feature now common on Evalue SBCs - dual flat-panel drive via an AGP SM721 chipset.

This is proving popular for applications like factory control.

With an OS like NT or Windows 2000 Professional this means the working 'desktop' can be split over two displays.

Monitoring and reporting data can be shown on one screen, for example and control inputs and mimics on the second.

In an EPOS application, a customer-facing display can run promotional video or show details of current offers while the checkout operator display is showing the usual checkout application.

One of these displays could be a touchscreen of course, so kiosks and man-machine-interfaces can readily benefit from extra interactivity too.

For embedded use the system can be run with the OS and application loaded on Compact Flash via the type I/II socket on the back of the card.

With Flash prices dropping every week this is now significantly cheaper than most disk on chip solutions.

Trident displays is Evalue's support partner in the UK and has a number of TFT, cable, inverter and BIOS kits for Evalue SBCs.

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