Advantech PCA-6187 Hardware Configuration, Introduction, see .1 Comparison table and Section

Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration

1.1 Introduction

The PCA-6187 Series all-in-one industrial grade single board computer is a high performance and full-featured computing engine. It follows the PICMG 1.0 specification and meets most requirements for industrial applications.

The PCA-6187 uses Intel's 865G chipset to support Intel's Socket 478 Pentium 4 and Celeron processor with 800/533/400 MHz front side bus. The dual channel DDR 400 SDRAM interface provides bottle neck free memory bandwidth up to 6.4GB/s. In addition to the two EIDE interfaces (up to four devices), it features a high performance serial ATA interface (up to 150MB/s) which eases cabling to hard drives in industrial chassis with thin and long cables. Other features include chipset built-in high per- formance VGA interface, dual Giga-bit Ethernet ports, dual channel Ultra 160 SCSI interface, six USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps), and other stan- dard PC functions like two RS-232 serial ports, one enhanced parallel port and floppy disk interface.

The PCA-6187 Series offers several impressive industrial features such as: CMOS data backup, which is stored in the Flash memory, which pro- tects data even after battery failure. Also included is a 256-level watch- dog timer, which resets the CPU if a program cannot be executed normally. This enables reliable operation in unattended environments. The remote management interface enables the PCA-6187 to be managed through Ethernet when it is connected to the SNMP-1000 Remote HTTP/ SNMP System Manager.

Note:	Some of the features mentioned above are not
	available with all models. For more information
	about the specifications of a particular model,
	see Table 1.1 : Comparison table and Section
	1.3: Specifications.

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