Advantech upgrades UNO industrial PC line

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has recently upgraded its line of UNO embedded industrial computers. The UNO-3074 now features an Intel Pentium M 1.8 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM, and is one of the fastest industrial computers available from the company.

By Control Engineering Staff November 5, 2007

The

Industrial Automation Group of Advantech

has recently upgraded its line of UNO embedded industrial computers. The UNO-3074 now features an Intel Pentium M 1.8 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM, and is one of the fastest industrial computers available from the company.

Separately,

Advantech

announced the UNO-2176 model comes with a Pentium M 1.4 GHz or Intel Celeron M 1GHz CPU, and features a fanless, cabless & diskless design with six serial ports (4 x jumper-configurable, isolated & surge-protected RS-232 / 422 / 485 with 128 KB hardware FIFO and 2 x RS-232 serial ports). Moreover, UNO-2176 also provides 16 x isolated DI/O and a PC/104 extension bus. Users can develop applications on Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, Linux or embedded operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows CE 5.0,

Microsoft Windows XP Embedded

and Embedded Linux. An application ready platform bundling Window XPe (SP2), a WinCE5.0 image and industrial CF card are also available.

Advantech also has recently re-launched popular members of the UNO Series with RoHS compliance. Models UNO-2170, UNO-2171, UNO-3072L & UNO-3074 are the same as previously and now comply with the European directives regarding reduction of hazardous waste. Advantech’s RoHS compliant UNO series are fanless industrial computers for users who need a highly rugged and robust embedded platform in critical environments. They operate with field-proven real-time operating systems, company says, including Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 and Windows XP Embedded. These operating systems are combined with several standard networking interfaces, including: Ethernet, Wireless Networking, RS-232/422/485, onboard I/O interfaces, PC cards and more.

—Edited by Renee Robbins, senior editor renee.robbins@reedbusiness.com
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