Embest: PC/104 industrial control board with Samsung S3C2410A

Embest announces the availability of its first PC/104 single board computer EM104V1 which is a standard PC/104-compliant industrial control board based on Samsung S3C2410A microcontroller. The board has a flexible design with a tiny CPU board mounted on a carrier board. The CPU board called Mini2410-III has an ARM9 CPU, 64M SDRAM, 64M Nand Flash, 2M Nor Flash and 128K SRAM on it and implements the most functions of the EM104V1.

The carrier board offers features in additional to those provided by the CPU board including Ethernet, Keyboard, 2-channel CAN bus, etc. Data transmission between the carrier board and the CPU board is through the 4mm height, 0.6mm space, 140-pin board-to-board Connectors and a broad line of peripherals interfaces have been brought out including ADC, PWM, LCD/TSP, UART, IIS, SPI, Watchdog, I2C, USB, SD/MMC, JTAG, etc. Up to 40 I/OS have been extended, 34 of which are derived from CPLD and other 6 are from the CPU board. The EM104V1 contains one PC/104 and one PC/104+ expansion connectors and make it available to connect with a wide range of standard peripheral cards. Embest offers an Ethernet port expansion board and some accessories like dual-ports USB cable, serial cable to help customers better using this board.

Embest provides Linux 2.6.14 BSP for this board. The board is capable of supporting various file systems including ROM/CRAM/EXT2/FAT32/NFS/YAFFS and yaffs is the root file system. Also many drivers like Ethernet, USB Host, Serial ports, SD/MMC, Audio, I2C bus, SPI, ADC and PWM are available.