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News Release from: Artila Electronics | Subject: Matrix-514
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The Matrix-514 provides four independent 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet ports, four RS-232/422/485 serial ports, two USB 2.0 ports and 21 programmable digital I/Os.
Artila Electronics has released the Matrix-514 Linux-ready industrial embedded computer It uses a 180MHz Atmel AT91RM9200 ARM9 RISC CPU and has 64Mbyte of onboard SDRAM and 16Mbyte of Flash memory with Linux 2.6 OS pre-installed
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Matrix-514 provides four independent 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet ports, four RS-232/422/485 serial ports, two USB 2.0 ports and 21 programmable digital I/Os.
An SD socket is also available for up to 2Gbyte Flash memory storage expansion.
The Matrix-514 accepts a power input from 9V DC to 40V DC.
Auto polarity and surge protection functions are included to protect it from a faulty power connection.
Multiple Ethernet ports make the Matrix-514 a suitable computer platform for industrial communication gateways, industrial VPNs and firewalls, featuring fault tolerance control.
The serial ports support PPP protocol and can co-operate with a GPRS/GSM/3G modem for machine to machine (M2M) applications and backup WAN.
The hardware-controlled RS-485 interface enables flawless communication between the Matrix-514 and industrial serial devices.
Its USB port allows Bluetooth communication, video capture and Wireless LAN.
The Matrix-514 is shipped with the Gnu tool chain, which includes a C/C++ cross compiler and Glibc.
With this tool chain, users can develop their application software using an x86-based computer, then download and run their application software on the Matrix-514.
Housed in a 160 x 104 x 38.5mm metal box which can be easily wall-mounted, a DIN rail mounting kit is also available.
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