Arcom develops ultra low power single board computer
Arcom has launched the VIPER, the world's first ultra low power
PC/104 single board computer based on Intel's PXA255 XScale™
RISC processor. The VIPER board's long list of features makes it
ideal for power-sensitive embedded communications, instrumentation and
low cost multimedia kiosk applications. The board has been designed to
take advantage of the power saving modes of the PXA255 processor (as used
in consumer devices such as the HP iPAQ) and other onboard peripherals
to achieve a maximum power consumption of less than 2W. With 5 serial
channels, dual USB and a 10/100baseT Ethernet port, it is also ideal as
a communications gateway, protocol converter or wireless network management
device and can also be configured to communicate using wired dial-up modem
technology for remote telemetry monitoring. The VIPER is supported with
development kits for the leading embedded operating systems such as embedded
Linux, Windows CE .NET and Wind River's VxWorks.