PCA-6180E Advantech PCI/ISA-Bus CPU Card

The Advantech PCA-6180 Series PCI/ISA-Bus CPU Card uses Intel's highly acclaimed Pentium III / Celeron processor, together with the Intel 815E chipset. The card works with standard ISA- or PCI/ISA-bus passive backplanes. The CPU provides 256/128 KB on-CPU L2 cache, eliminating the need for external SRAM chips. It has two PCI EIDE interfaces (for up to four devices) and a floppy disk drive interface (for up to two devices). Other features include two RS-232 serial ports (16C550 UARTs with 16-byte FIFO or compatible), one enhanced parallel port (supports SPP/EPP/ECP) and four USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports. The PCI enhanced IDE controller supports Ultra ATA/100/66/33 and PIO Mode 4 operation. This provides data transfer rates of 100/66/ 33 MB/sec. System BIOS supports boot-up from an IDE HDD/CDROM, SCSI HDD/CD-ROM, LS-120, ZIP-100, FDD, and LAN.

A backup of CMOS data is stored in the Flash memory, which protects data even after a battery failure. Also included is a 255-level watchdog timer, which resets the CPU or generates an interrupt if a program cannot be executed normally. This enables reliable operation in unattended environments.

The PCA-6180 Series offers several impressive industrial features such as a chipset integrated VGA (AGP) controller, a PCI Ultra 160 SCSI controller, dual 10/100Base-T networking controllers, three DIMM slots for a total of 512 MB SDRAM memory, and an ISA High Drive. All these make it an ideal choice for applications that require both high performance and full functionality.