MICRO INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCES NEW HIGHLY INTEGRATED SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER FOR POINT-OF-SALE AND KIOSK SYSTEMS
Cost Effective Board Addresses the Most Demanding Industrial Applications With Low Power Consumption and Broad Temperature Range
Westerville, Ohio, November 18, 1999
Micro Industries Corporation today introduced the new POS51, the latest offering from its POS (point-of-sale) product line. The POS51 is a single board computer specifically designed for industrial control and other applications that require a broad temperature range and significant processing capabilities, and that have limited space requirements. Micro Industries is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company that provides electronic engineering and manufacturing resources to OEMs.
"Industrial and consumer interactive display and transaction processing systems are among the fastest growing segments of the electronic systems market," stated Michael Curran, president and CEO of Micro Industries. "Because of the shortage of qualified personnel in both markets, companies are looking for alternatives to maintaining highly trained staff to handle simple transaction processing operations. Fully automated kiosk or point-of-sale transaction systems provide an efficient, cost effective method to support these transaction requirements."
Curran continued, "The POS51 addresses the growing demand for industrial interactive display and transaction processing systems. It is unique not only because of its extended temperature capabilities, but also because of its small size and high level of integration. Historically, systems addressing this market use up to five or six separate boards. The POS51 was developed using technology which incorporates the features of all these boards into one single board computer."
The POS51 utilizes Intel® Pentium processor technology, the Intel TX chipset, and a variety of peripheral controllers to provide virtually all of the control functions required for demanding point-of-sale and kiosk computer systems, including those for industrial automation and control and retail applications. With a high level of integration in an extremely small form factor, the POS51 provides standard PC functions as well as a touch-screen interface, LCD flat panel controller, expanded serial and parallel I/O, Ethernet, and I/O expansion via a riser card.
With its low power consumption, the POS51 is designed to operate over a broad temperature range without the need for a fan on the processor. This feature makes the board ideal for OEMs whose product requirements, based on a particular environment or enclosure, necessitate using a board that runs reliably over an extended temperature range.
Optimized Features of New POS51 Offer Significant Value to OEMs
- Intel Pentium Processor and Intel 82439 TX Chipset: With low power output and 32MB on-board memory, these technologies from Intel offer significant value. Memory and speed are optimized using 2 SIMM sockets for up to 512MB of extended data output (EDO) DRAM and 512KB of Pipelined Burst Cache.
- ELO TouchSystems Touch Screen Interface: An integrated interface to these industry-leading, rugged touch screens insures high quality and ease-of-use.
- Intel 69000 Graphics Controller: This highly integrated graphics controller for embedded and industrial PC applications is integrated with 2MB video display memory and LCD flat panel interface support. 4MB of video display memory is optional. The controller is the first member of the HiQVideo family to integrate high speed SDRAM frame buffer memory into the chip, delivering uncompromised performance while consuming significantly less power than the discrete solution.
- Texas Instruments 1394 (FireWire) Controller: This extremely fast bus standard supports data transfer rates of up to 100, 200, or 400MB per second. With its speed and support of isynchronous data, it is ideal for devices that need to transfer high levels of data in real time.
- Intel 82559 Ethernet Controller: Intel's highly integrated 32-bit PCI LAN controller for 10 or 100MB per second fast Ethernet networks is the company's leading solution for PCI LAN designs. It combines a small package design with low power expenditure to conserve energy.
- Four Serial I/O Ports: The POS51 supports three general purpose RS-232 ports and one port dedicated to the ELO touch screen.
- Two Bi-directional Parallel Ports: One ECP/EPP/IEEE 1284 and one ECP/EPP enable fast peripheral communications.
- ISA/PCI Bus Expansion: The POS51 includes a riser card connector for ISA/PCI bus expansion with secondary EIDE and floppy connections.
Availability and Price
The POS51 is available immediately in the United States and Europe. Pricing begins at $595 (U.S.) in OEM quantities. Variations in pricing are based on configured options. Prices are subject to change without notice. Products can be ordered by calling Micro Industries' Customer Service Department at 800-722-1842. A complete listing of product features is included in the attached table. For more information, visit www.microindustries.com.
About Micro Industries
Micro Industries Corporation, founded in 1978, is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company that provides electronic engineering and manufacturing resources to OEMs. Micro Industries helps customers translate their product requirements into low-cost standard, custom, and semi-custom product solutions for embedded and integrated computer systems. The 52,000 square foot facility in Westerville, Ohio serves as corporate headquarters, and houses an EPA Zero Discharge manufacturing facility that meets both ISO 9001-94 and ISO 14001 standards. The manufacturing facility has fully automated conventional and surface mount assembly lines for both prototype and production requirements. Micro Industries employs a dedicated staff of engineers focused on product design. For more information visit www.microindustries.com.
Micro Industries Corporation POS51 Complete Listing of Product Features
- Form factor
- Custom (6.875" x 9.000")
- Processor
- Intel Pentium Low-power Processor
- Chipset
- Intel 82439TX, Consisting of:
- Intel 82439TX PCI Controller
- Intel 82371EB PCI ISA IDE Xcelerator (PIIX4E)
- Memory
- 32MB on-board EDO DRAM
- 2 SIMM sockets for up to 512 MB EDO DRAM
- Cache
- 0-512KB On-board, Pipelined Burst Cache
- Flash Disk
- M-Systems DiskOnChip2000
- 2-72 MB Capacity
- Full Boot Operability
- Broad O/S Support
- Ethernet Controller (option)
- Intel 82559
- PCI 10BASE-T / 100Base-TX Interface
- Ethernet Controller
- RJ45 Interface
- Video Intel
- CHIPS 69000 HiQVideo Accelerator
- 2 MB of High Speed SDRAM On-chip Frame Buffer
- Onboard Support for 24-bit TFT Flat Panel
- 1394 (FireWire)
- Texas Instruments TI TSB12LV23 & TSB41LV02
- 100/200/400MB/s FireWire
- I/O Control
- SMC FDC37C932FR
- Peripheral Interfaces
- Four 16550 Serial Ports
- Two RS-232
- One RS-232/422/485 Configurable
- One Used by On-board Touch-screen Controller
- PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
- Two Parallel Ports, Bi-directional
- Two USB Ports
- EIDE Interface, Support for Two IDE Drives and One Low-profile CD-ROM
- Floppy Disk Drive
- Additional Features
- PCI/ISA I/O Expansion Via Riser Card
- Real Time Clock with Battery Backup
- APC (Advanced Power supply Control)
- Enhanced Power Management
- BIOS Extensions for (I2C, ASM)
- BIOS
- 256KB Flash Memory
- ACPI, APM, and Plug-and-Play
- Flash Re-programming and Crisis Recovery Utilities
