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Advantech is constantly monitoring
the industry transition from ISA bus products to PCI based products.
The introduction of the PCI-6771 is Advantech's latest effort
to provide new PCI based solutions to their customers. This SBC
is based solely on the PCI bus standard. Advantech offers a combination
PCI/ISA SBC solution in its NLX line of products featuring the
PCN-6351 SBC and associated backplanes and chassis for a complete
system solution.
 Advantech
will continue to expand its "PCI only" solutions and
effectively compete in the SBC market by responding to our customers'
changing needs and offering well designed and engineered PCI products
at competitive prices. The PCI-6771 represents this ongoing effort.
New
Product, Better Performance, Same Reliability
The advantage of using the PCI bus
standard is the higher performance of 32-bits at 33 MHz vs. the
ISA buses' 8/16- bits at 8 MHz. This increased performance makes
PCI cards especially attractive for communication applications.
PCI bus cards also provide for easy expansion. For example, adding
another Ethernet port could easily be done using a PCI bus card.
Also, some high speed add-on communication cards need a PCI interface.
So, half-size PCI cards like the PCI-6771 are commonly used in
communication related applications. However, nothing is sacrificed
for the sake of performance, at the heart of the PCI-6771 is the
Intel 440BX System Chipset. This is the most popular, mature,
tried and proven chipset in the industry. Intel also maintains
a 5-year supply guarantee for this chipset. All these factors
give the new PCI-6771 a rock-solid platform that is critical to
any industrial control product. Advantech emphasizes reliability
and dependability with every new or existing product they manufacture.
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The
PCI-6771 supports Socket 370 for Intel® CeleronTM
processors. CeleronTM 300A/333/350/400/433MHz are
all supported. There is a Trident Cyber 9525DVD controller that
supports up to 1024x 768 resolution as well as 36 bit XGA TFT
LCD panels. There are 2 serial ports, one RS-232 and one RS-232/422/485.
The PCI-6771's USB interface is USB rev.1.0 compliant. There is
a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interface as well as fast IrDA compliant
infrared support. The PCI IDE interface has one enhanced IDE interface
that supports 2 IDE devices. Ultra DMA 33 mode up to 33 MB/sec
and PIO mode 3,4 with Bus Mastering up to 14 MB/sec. Advanced
Notebook level power management is also supported.