Ampro Computers has announced its new CoreModule 420 PC/104 single board computer (SBC) as the next step in its roadmap that keeps 486-based embedded systems in production through 2010.
It says manufacturers of medical, military, transportation and industrial systems are not forced into expensive re-design and qualification projects for high-performance CPUs now that Ampro has a simple resolution to their 486 end-of-life (EOL) notices. The new CoreModule 420 is good value for space-constrained embedded applications that require four serial ports (two of which support RS485), 10/100Base-T Ethernet, and video on a single board.
"The PC/104 market continues to demand long lifecycle embedded PCs compatible with processors that left the desktop 10 years ago," said Paul Rosenfeld, CTO of Ampro. "Because of the wave of 486 EOL notices from SBC vendors, thousands of embedded OEMs worldwide must re-qualify a new CPU solution or re-design systems that they had expected to build unchanged for years. The CoreModule 420 addresses the 486 PC/104 SBC demand with extra serial ports and general-purpose I/O normally not found in a single PC/104 module."
The CoreModule 420 is specially designed to be a migration product. The I/O addresses and IRQ mappings allow it to be easily configured to match the setup of many different legacy solutions. The memory hole is configurable to enable the use of legacy PC/104 (ISA bus) peripheral cards originally used with 386 and 486 systems having very small memory configurations. Ampro has also designed in 768 kB of on-board Flash memory which is accessible to the user and bootable, which means that some types of applications do not require additional Flash memory in the system in the form of CompactFlash or DiskOnChip. With on-board Ethernet and video, two RS232/485 ports, and two more RS232-only ports, the CoreModule 420 also replaces up to three cards in a PC/104 stack.
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