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Advantech's
new card-size PC, the CPC-2245, is truly an all-in-one 486 processor-based single
board computer. Even though the CPC-2245 is incredibly small (2.5" HDD class,
68 mm x 100 mm), it packs more features than many boards four to eight times its
size. Combined with Advantech's Large Biscuit PCs (SBCs the size of 5.25"
HDDs) and Small Biscuit PCs (SBCs the size of 3.5" HDDs), the CPC-2245 offers
Advantech customers a complete solution for almost any form factor they desire.
The
CPC-2245 can either be used as a stand alone application, plugged into a carrier
board and used as an embedded application or embedded into a user's system board
for I/O expansion applications.
Besides
being small and highly integrated, there are many other reasons to choose the
CPC-2245 as your application solution. One is that it provides a very stable system
that can be installed in any environment where vibration is a concern. The 32
MB DRAM and CompactFlash?disk emulated hard disk are mounted on the board
directly. This avoids system faults because of bad connections or hard disk mechanical
limitations. Another reason is that the CPC-2245 is easy to install and upgrade.
Since it adopts a 144-pin SODIMM socket as an I/O connection, it can be installed
or removed as easily as a RAM module. In the future, the card-size PC can be upgraded
from 486 to Pentium ?level without changing the user's carrier board. Also,
because of its form factor, users can replace a damaged card within 30 seconds.
Finally, system designers are freed from worrying about any PC related technology.
They only need to put on some standard I/O connectors and design their own circuitry
for their application. Advantech provides the CPC-2400 development board to help
customers evaluate and develop their own carrier board solutions.