Highly integrated single board computers

September 2000 Industrial Computer Hardware

Ampro's Little Board products are the industry's first products to comply with the new EBX standard for high integration, high performance PC/104-expandable single-board computers (SBCs). Each Ampro Little Board provides all the functions of complete PC/AT system, plus an extensive set of unique PC architecture enhancements for reliable operation in embedded environments.

Every Ampro Little Board includes Ampro's unique 'ruggedised' embedded-PC BIOS with special extensions for enhanced embedded system reliability and flexibility, including: failsafe boot; battery-free boot; watchdog-timer support; serial console; serial loader; SSD and SCSI support; advanced power management (APM) and OEM customisation 'hooks'.

The Little Board/P5i has superhigh performance and is highly integrated with: 166/133/100 MHz Intel Pentium CPU; up to 128 MB DRAM; 256K L2 cache; four serial ports; IEEE 1284 parallel port; PCI GUI-accelerated SVGA LCD/CRT display controller; PCI UltraSCSI; PCI enhanced-IDE; Ethernet LAN interface; plus other standard Little Board features. A PC/104-Plus expansion stack location allows system expansion via PC/104-Plus (PCI) modules, PC/104 (ISA) modules or a combination of both.

The Little Board/486i is a highly integrated PC/104-expandable SBC with 100 MHz 486DX CPU; up to 64 MB DRAM; four serial ports; IEEE 1284 parallel port; local bus GUI-accelerated SVGA CD/CRT display controller; Ethernet LAN interface; plus all standard Little Board features.

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