Product category: Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Trident | Subject: Artigo
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 January 2008
Development environment speeds PC
configuration
The Artigo offers external connectivity to the PS/2 port, 10/100 Ethernet connection and VGA output as well as audio ports and four USB 2.0 ports.
Trident has released the Artigo from Via, an evaluation and development environment supporting the popular Pico-ITX The Artigo Pico-ITX builder kit from Trident will enable embedded system designers to quickly configure a fully functioning PC based on the Pico-ITX motherboard for software development, debugging and pre-production testing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Once the evaluation hardware is assembled, the operating system can be installed, providing a fully functioning platform.
The kit contains a Via EPia PX10000 Pico-ITX board, chassis, power adapter and accessories.
The Artigo offers external connectivity to all the I/O ports and functionality on the motherboard, including the PS/2 port, 10/100 Ethernet connection and VGA output as well as audio ports and four USB 2.0 ports.
Simply add RAM and a hard disk to enable a fully functioning PC solution.
At just 150 x 109mm the Artigo is suitable for applications with limited space.
The Pico-ITX motherboard offers a combination of high specifications, small size and low power consumption.
The board delivers a fully functioning multimedia PC, drawing approximately 20W when under full load.
The board can support up to 1Gbyte of DDR2 533 SODIMM system memory and boasts a Via UniChrome Pro II AGP 3D/2D graphics core, MPEG2/4 and WMV9 hardware decoding acceleration as well as a dedicated HD audio Codec.
The Artigo can accept a 2.5in IDE hard disk drive.
This compact but powerful PC solution is compatible with popular PC operating systems such as Windows 2000/XP, WinCE and Windows XP Embedded.
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