Motherboard ideal for HMIs and gaming platforms
Lanner Electronics
VES-310 motherboard
Lanner Electronics has launched the VES-310, a 3.5in motherboard designed to serve POS machines, touch-screen panel displays and HMI interfaces in industrial and commercial settings.
The VES-310 is made of the ultra-low-powered Intel Atom N450 CPU and comes with VGA and LVDS video outs.
The company has designed the VES-310 for a wide temperature range, operating between 0C and 60C.
The motherboard is purpose-built to serve a variety of different needs.
Applications include human-machine interfaces (HMI) within industrial settings, POS kiosks in commercial settings and gaming platforms in casinos.
The processing power is sufficient for these types of systems, and the board contains a variety of different I/O displays and connectivity.
The VES-310 utilises Intel Graphics for both LVDS and VGA displays.
These displays can be programmed to show independent video, allowing dual video streams.
To help with video processing, there is an onboard MPEG 2 hardware decoder.
The key to low-power consumption comes with Intel's Atom - the Pineview N450, which still offers 1.66GHz of processing power.
The attached SODIMM socket can hold up to 2GB of DDR2 memory.
The wide operating temperature range allows the board to be housed fan-less within some commercial settings.
With the addition of a fan, the motherboard can be used in harsh industrial settings.
It features a wealth of I/O connections including line in, audio out, DIO, two COM and two USB ports.
The dual RJ4 LAN ports support Gigabit Ethernet.
Additionally, there is also both Sata connections and Compactflash socket.
There is room for expansion both through a proprietary Lanner daughterboard for applications that require LVDS and a mini PCIe slot.
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