Single board computer with VGA/dual LAN/SCSI

September 2001 Industrial Computer Hardware

Advantech's PCA-6180 is a 133 MHz FSB Pentium III-based single board computer with VGA/dual LAN/SCSI. The SBC includes an Intel 815E chipset and supports 133 MHz FSB. Three DIMM sockets for SDRAM up to 512 MB are available, as well as on-board AGP/VGA, a PCI Ultra 160 SCSI controller and an on-board dual 10/100Base-T networking controller.

The CPU is an Intel Pentium processor with speeds of up to 933 MHz, and the PCI/ISA bus is PICMG compliant. Its PCI SCSI supports a 32 bit PCI interface and Ultra 160 SCSI or legacy single-ended devices with data transfer rates up to 160 MB/s.

Two RS232 ports with 16C550 UARTs with a 16 byte FIFO buffer support speeds of up to 115,2 Kbps. The ports may be individually configured to COM1, COM2 or disabled. Its watchdog timer can generate a system reset or IRQ11 and is programmable with 255 levels from 1 to 255 s. Operating from 0 to 60°C depending on the CPU used, the PCA-6180 has a supply voltage of +5/12 V and its extension I/O bracket provides I/O connection for four USB ports, PS/2 mouse and LAN 2. Advantech is represented locally by ProMicro.

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