Demonstrating an unparalleled understanding of the real concerns of customers, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announces that key products in its range of small form factor embedded computing solutions designed for a range of industrial applications will carry the assurance of extended availability. Selected platforms – including the bCOM2-L1000 Type 2 Com Express module, and the sATX-Q35-ER ATX single board computer – will optionally be obtainable for up to five years under the terms of the long term availability program. This, together with a version control program, removes the need to re-qualify these platforms as a result of changes in the underlying hardware and firmware, thus substantially reducing the total cost of ownership.
Designed for applications including industrial, simulation/training, test and measurement, gaming and transportation, the bCOM2-L1000 offers a choice of Intel® Core™2 Duo, Core™ Duo or Celeron® processors with up to 2 Gigabytes of memory, and is supported by the CCAR-L1000 carrier board for customer evaluation of the bCOM2-L1000. Two serial ATA ports and an IDE port provide the bCOM2-L1000 with the ability to handle extensive, high performance hard disk storage. Optimum graphics performance is provided via integrated analog CRT and LVDS interfaces, DVMT 3.0, Intel’s Dual-Frequency Graphics Technology (which reduces integrated graphics chipset power) and dual independent display pipes.
The ATX form factor CCAR-L1000 complements the bCOM2-L1000 with a single x16 PCI Express slot, two x1 slots and four PCI 2.3 slots. Rear panel interfaces include mouse/keyboard, serial, Ethernet, USB, VGA and audio, while onboard support additionally includes a parallel interface, CD-in, S/PDIF in/out and IrDA.
The sATX-Q35-ER is GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ first ATX platform, and is the first in what is planned to be a broad range of ATX and ITX products. It is an ATX single board computer with PCI Express and PCI expansion slots, and features a choice of Intel®'s Core™ 2 Quad or Core 2 Duo processors; up to 8 Gigabytes of DDR2 on-demand memory; two Gigabit Ethernet ports; twelve USB ports; two COM ports; a choice of SATA or IDE storage devices; and a wide range of multimedia implementations via the PCI Express x16 expansion slot. The sATX-Q35-ER also offers support for various RAID levels.
