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Date: 2/6/2007
Fanless PC, Compact PC, Rugged PC, Embedded System, Panel PC
Advantech's Fanless PC
If you are looking for a suitable embedded application ready platform that can shorten your development time and offer rich networking interfaces to fulfill your extensive needs for different kinds of projects, Advantech's fanless PC series are a great solution. The major benefit of fanless design is to reduce the failure caused by fan and extend the operation life. Fanless computers have many benefits that are being recognized as being increasingly relevant in today's highly stressed business world. Advantech fanless product series comes housed in an extremely compact cast aluminum chassis that not only provides great protection from shock, vibration, dust, cold and heat, but also acts as a functional heat sink to ensure lower temperature operation.
Leveraging field-approved and worldwide accepted real-time OS technology, Advantech's fanless PC series provides a WindowsCE .NET and Windows XP Embedded ready solution and supports several standard networking interfaces, such as Ethernet, Wireless Ethernet, RS 232/422/485, on-board I/O interfaces, PC cards, and so on. Because of its open architecture, great expansion capability and reliable fanless and diskless design, Advantech's fanless PC series is an ideal platform to implement diverse custom industrial applications.
Industrial Proven Design for Harsh Environments
Advantech's fanless PCs are highly rugged and robust, and suitable for use in any critical and harsh environments. These fanless PCs have a strong mechanical design, and also have excellent anti-shock and anti-vibration properties. They can endure high-operating temperatures and almost anything an industrial environment can demand.
Open System Architecture Designed for Automation
Advantech's fanless PC series has an open-system architecture, which provides the most popular interfaces such as RS-232/422/485 serial communication ports, Ethernet ports, USB ports, CompactFlash, PC Card extension slots and VGA for display panels. With rich interface support, the fanless PC series can connect to diverse devices and equipment for automation control.
Ready Embedded OS for Rapid Application Development
Advantech's fanless PC series provide an embedded operating system offering a pre-configured image with optimized on-board device drivers. The fanless PCs supports the three most popular embedded operating systems; Microsoft Windows CE.NET, Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and Embedded Linux. The embedded operating systems fulfill the toughest requirements of complete functionality and high reliability. Advantech's fanless PCs quickly prove itself to be an application ready platform that will save time and energyinlaunching your projects.
Flexible Expansion
To fulfill your diverse needs, Advantech's fanless PC series provides PCI or PC/104 interfaces for your flexible expansion, so that you can plug-in all PCI or PC/104 form-factor cards. Advantech is recognized for its PC-based solutions, and can provide you with complete data acquisition and I/O control, motion control, GPIB, industrial communication and Fieldbus cards.
Flexible Installation Option
Unlike traditional PCs, Advantech's fanless PC series is designed to be installed anywhere. Compact and with clever mounting brackets, you'll be able to place these fanless PCs closer to your application.