Montrose, Calif.—Micro/sys has added to its Stackable USB single-board computer line the SBC1496 high-performance 486/586 CPU board with an LCD/touchscreen interface and Ethernet for extended temperature applications.

The SBC1496 is a powerful RoHS compliant controller that operates from “40°C to +85°C and provides I/O expansion via StackableUSB peripherals. In addition to PC-compatible features, such as SVGA and dual serial ports, the SBC1496 also includes four USB 2.0 high-speed (480-Mbits/s) ports, two USB 1.1 full-speed ports, and 100BASE-T Ethernet support.

With up to 64-Mbytes of SDRAM, CompactFlash, and full AT-compatibility, high-performance control systems can be implemented on this stackable embedded form factor (PC/104-size) SBC. The SBC1496 can boot DOS, Linux, Windows CE, VxWorks, and other PC-compatible operating systems.

The SBC1496 is implemented with the STPC Atlas processor, which offers speeds up to 133MHz, on-chip cache, 64-bit DRAM access, hardware floating point, digital I/O, and AT-compatible EIDE, interrupt, timer, and DMA controllers. The SBC1496 includes COM1, COM2, SuperVGA, keyboard, and mouse.

Pricing: The basic SBC1496 starts at $385 in single quantity; the industrial temperature version is available starting at $435.
Availability: Now.
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Micro/sys Inc., 1-818-244-4600, www.embeddedsys.com