COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, announces today the launch of the Vector, a full-featured, low power, EPIC single board computer (SBC) based on the Intel Atom Z5xx processor. At under 7W of power consumption and with no fans required, Vector delivers the multimedia and I/O performance of the Intel Atom Z5xx processor family while minimizing power and footprint. The flexibility and performance capabilities of the Eurotech Vector SBC meet requirements for applications in transportation, industrial, medical, and defense markets.
Vector is available in an EPIC form factor of 4.5 x 6.5 inches. It offers dual CAN interfaces, serial ports, high speed USB, and Gigabit Ethernet. Multimedia capabilities include dual display support, VGA and LVDS interfaces, touchscreen and backlight. Vector offers flexibility for the OEM developer providing a wide range power supply unit of 7 to 25 VDC, and expansion options such as MiniPCI Express, Serial ATA, Solid State Disk, and SecureDigital or CompactFlash® support. Any of these options can be used as memory or boot options for optimal flexibility in configuration schemes. Vector supports both commercial and industrial temperatures configurations.
“With Vector, Eurotech builds on our low power, small footprint design expertise with the Intel Atom platform,” says Pete Dombrowski, Director of Engineering for Eurotech Inc. “The SBC design is targeted for customers who want to simply plug a single board into their design and go to market quickly. We have built a very flexible product through a range of I/O, boot, expansion, and operating system options, all backed by Eurotech’s strong focus to help our customers move into production as quickly as possible.”
Vector supports Windows Embedded Standard and Windows CE, as well as Wind River Linux. Development systems are available now with a full set of features and operating system options.
Eurotech is an Associate member of Intel’s Embedded and Communications Alliance, a Microsoft Windows Embedded Silver Partner, and Wind River Linux Strategic Partner.
About Eurotech
Eurotech is a listed global company (ETH.MI) that integrates hardware, software, services and expertise to deliver embedded computing platforms and sub-systems to leading OEMs, system integrators and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size and reduces coding complexity to bring sensors, embedded platforms, sub-systems, ready-to-use devices and high performance computers to market, specializing in healthcare, defense, transportation, industrial and energy segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects integrated solutions that simplify data capture, processing and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify their access to state-of-art embedded technologies so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.
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