Compact PC goes up the wall or on the rail
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
May 30, 2005
New from RDS is the AEC-6840 Embedded PC from Aaeon Technology, claimed to be the world's smallest, highest performing, multifunction PC enclosure.
New from RDS is the AEC-6840 Embedded PC from Aaeon Technology, claimed to be the world's smallest, highest performing, multifunction PC enclosure.
With exceptional vibration proofing and attention to thermal performance, this highly engineered unit, will catch the eye of designers in such markets as environmental monitoring, building automation, and transportation.
The AEC-6840 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 5g, shock passes 100g without the hard drive.
The CPU inside is a 650MHz ULV Intel Celeron, and the board supports up to 512Mbyte 144-pin system memory.
Connectivity includes 10/100Base-T Ethernet with option of a second gigabit connection, two USB2.0 ports, four serial ports, digital I/O - three in and out, optional TV tuner/MPEG4 capture, PS/2 keyboard/mouse 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 5.0, and the board will also support Windows XP Embedded.
Both of these operating systems are designed to fit onto a CompactFlash 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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