Advantech's PCA-6154/L half-size Pentium^® MMX^TM CPU card with VGA, Ethernet and SSD has just been revised from version A301 to A302. Two significant alterations have been made. The first is the addition of two jumpers to allow the user to enable or disable either the on-board VGA or LAN features (not possible on earlier version). The second addition is the freeing up of IRQ15. Now, the system integrator has one more IRQ with which to work. These two significant changes give the user more options and freedom in designing his or her application.

New Version 386-based Biscuit PC Soon Available

Advantech's PCM-3864 ver.B1 will soon be replaced by the newer PCM-3864 ver.B2. This change is taking place primarily because the manufacturer of clock generator has phased out this particular clock. Therefore, Advantech has had to replace it with another equivalent clock generator. None of the other functions have been affected in any way, though. Samples will be available in July, while by October, no more B1 boards will be available.

Revised 386-based CPU Card Maintains Low-cost Embedded Solution

Advantech's PCA-6135 has just been revised to replace a phased out clock generator. This new clock generator produces all three of the frequencies produced by its predecessor, namely, 14.318 MHz, 24.0 MHz and 40.0 MHz. By replacing this phased out component, Advantech is demonstrating its commitment to continue to provide its customers with a low-cost, highly embedded 386-based solution. Call Advantech today if this 386-based embedded CPU card solution fits your application needs.

New Multimedia POS Offers Low-Cost Solution

Advantech has added a new product in its POS-562 Multimedia POS Control Board line, the POS-562S. The original, full-featured POS-562 offers a Pentium^® MMX ^TM processor-based POS control board with on-board VGA/LCD, audio, Ethernet, SSD socket, and LVDS. The POS-562L features all of these functions as well, minus audio. The POS-562S, on the other hand, offers all of the features of the POS-562 minus both audio and LVDS. Removing both of these features generates a significant cost savings. Eventually, the POS-562S will completely replace the POS-562L, thus offering the customer a simpler and much more price competitive board, or the full-featured POS-562. Call Advantech to inquire about the great savings!