Embedded boards and displays come together: News from Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente

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The Displays and Embedded Boards Division of Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente is offering a holistic embedded system solution. With RuBaDi (Rutronik Board and Display), the user receives a complete offer comprising the embedded board, TFT, backlight inverter and all necessary cables. Customer-specific modifications can also include a power supply and a suitable housing as well as optional touch solutions on request.

Increasing competition and cost pressure need holistic solutions from a single source.

They should reduce the time and resource-consuming search for proper sources of procurement as well as parallel schedule monitoring for different products to a minimum.

With its RuBaDi programme, Rutronik is facing these challenges in the market.

The customer receives a co-ordinated embedded system from a single source with only one order number.

This implies not only hardware compatibility, but also the possible software modification of the BIOS, which may be necessary to present the image correctly on the LCD.

This lets the customer concentrate on its core competence, the realisation of its application.

The basis of RuBaDi is an embedded board with options of the usual PC/104, SBC 3.5in and SBC 5.25in form factors as well as various ATX formats for industrial applications.

ETX boards can also be included in the kit.

As an example, a 3.5in SBC solution from Advantech with an AMD Geode LX800 processor (PCM-9375) offers four 4x USB 2.0 ports, three RS232s, one RS232/422/485, and CRT and LCD support.

Rutronik offers TFTs with diagonals from 6.4 to 15in which fit with the system and are can be used in most industrial applications.

A 12.1in alternative from Sharp (LQ121S1DG41) is also available with 800 x 600 resolution, 370cd/m2 brightness, 450:1 contrast, wide viewing angles and a temperature range from -10 to +65C.

The voltage supply dimensioned for the system and a housing for the board and the power supply are also included in the package.

The standard temperature range is 0 to +60C.

There is the option of an extended temperature range from -40 to +85C for special areas of application.

If storage media such as RAM, CompactFlash, HDD etc are required, Rutronik offers them through its subsidiary company Discomp.

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