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News Release from: Wordsworth Technology | Subject: POS-380
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 October 2004

Mainboard optimised for the point of
sale

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The POS-380 CPU board is designed specifically for point-of-sale applications.

The POS-380 CPU board is designed specifically for point-of-sale applications The POS-380 implements a socket-370 that supports the Via C3, Intel Tualatin Pentium III/Celeron up to 133MHz front side bus

The processor is supported by the Via CLE266 north bridge chipset (with integrated graphics 2D/3D engine) and Via 8235 south bridge chipset.

Up to 2Gbyte of system memory can be fitted using two DDR 200/266 SDRAM sockets.

"We are very pleased to be able to offer the new POS-380 mainboard as a valuable addition to our product portfolio".

"The point-of-sale (POS) market demands a variety of communication and I/O features".

"The POS-380 meets this need with an extensive feature set including six USB 2.0 ports, 10/100 Ethernet LAN, 10/100/100 Gigabit LAN, five serial ports, and an optional FireWire and serial ATA interface", said Nick Coxhead, Technical Director at Wordsworth Technology.

"Data display is also a crucial factor for point-of-sale applications and the POS-380 provides support for 1920 x 1440 CRT display, 24bit TTL LCD/LVDS interface, and TV-out", he continued.

The I/O features of the POS-380 include a pin header for RS232/422/485 (selectable), six USB 2.0 ports (two connectors and four by pin headers), five serial ports (two connectors and three by pin headers), two ATA 66/100/133 IDE channels, a floppy interface, one IrDA interface, a PS/2 keyboard/mouse connector, and one parallel port pin header.

In addition the POS-380 supports an AC97 audio codec, a CompactFlash Type II socket, a watchdog timer, hardware monitoring, and a PCI slot.

Four inputs and four outputs of digital I/O are also provided onboard.

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