Rugged small form factor PCs

[DD]

I am considering PC-104s for my project. I can increase space/power
however, to obtain higher processing speed with larger form factor boards.
EBX sounds good, but I heard that it is not as rugged as PC-104. My
application will be in rough conditions subject to G-forces.

Is there a product that has a standard, stackable PC board in a rugged,
compact form supporting the latest Pentium processors? The companies that I
have come across make fancy expensive enclosed units with LCD screens,
carrying handles, or other things that we would not need.

Thanks

 

[Sporkman]

DD wrote:

I am considering PC-104s for my project. I can increase space/power
however, to obtain higher processing speed with larger form factor boards.
EBX sounds good, but I heard that it is not as rugged as PC-104. My
application will be in rough conditions subject to G-forces.

Is there a product that has a standard, stackable PC board in a rugged,
compact form supporting the latest Pentium processors? The companies that I
have come across make fancy expensive enclosed units with LCD screens,
carrying handles, or other things that we would not need.

Thanks

Search for "embedded PC" in Google.

 

[DD]

This search, along with my previous searches, results in a lot of boards
with max speed of 1Ghz. Are there any rugged compact boards with modern
processor speeds such as 3Ghz?

I am looking for the following,

- compact board size
- rugged circuit design
- shock isolation enclosure
- for industrial applications
- 100 ethernet
- fast 3Ghz or multi-processor

 

[Tim Auton]

"DD" <nowhere@noemail.org> wrote:

This search, along with my previous searches, results in a lot of boards
with max speed of 1Ghz. Are there any rugged compact boards with modern
processor speeds such as 3Ghz?

I am looking for the following,

- compact board size
- rugged circuit design
- shock isolation enclosure
- for industrial applications
- 100 ethernet
- fast 3Ghz or multi-processor

I'm curious, why do you need a 3GHz processor?

Applications other than the desktop/server market tend to lag well
behind those markets. MiniITX and similar small-form factors would
give you a compact size with a recent chipset that would support the
latest processors, but without the designed-in ruggedness. You could
always make an enclosure, at the expense of size.


Tim
--
Love is a travelator.

 

[John Todd]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:45:27 GMT, DD <nowhere@noemail.org> wrote:

I am considering PC-104s for my project. I can increase space/power
however, to obtain higher processing speed with larger form factor boards.
EBX sounds good, but I heard that it is not as rugged as PC-104. My
application will be in rough conditions subject to G-forces.

Is there a product that has a standard, stackable PC board in a rugged,
compact form supporting the latest Pentium processors? The companies that I
have come across make fancy expensive enclosed units with LCD screens,
carrying handles, or other things that we would not need.

Thanks

http://www.stealth.cm



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