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April 25, 2012

Industrial Mini-ITX Motherboards for Embedded and Storage Applications

NEXCOM has launched two industrial motherboards based on the Intel® Atom™ D2550/ 1.86GHz dual core processors with integrated graphic PowerVR SGX 545 (GMA 3650@640MHz/ DX9). NEX 604 is equipt with Intel® NM10 Express chipset and targeted at embedded and industrial applications, whilst the new NEX 605 incorporates an ICH10R chipset which enables connection to six SATA interface devices making it the ideal Mini-ITX embedded board for use in a variety of storage, security, surveillance and multimedia deployments. In addition, unlike the majority of commercial Mini-ITX platforms, NEX 604 and NEX 605 are built to an industrial-grade standard thus giving them an advantage in terms of reliability and durability. Furthermore, because NEX 604 and NEX 605 are based on components which are featured on Intel's Embedded Roadmap, both platforms have an extended life cycle, making them the perfect foundation on which to base your system.

 

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NEX 604 for Embedded Applications

NEX 604 provides support for dual DDR3/SO-DIMM up to 4GB SDRAM 800/ 1066Mhz system memory, dual SATA ports for embedded MLC/ SLC-based SSD and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports for network communication. NEX 604 also supports dual display with HD video output via VGA, HDMI and user friendly LVDS interface by DF13-20DP with a seven-pins box-header to support +12V inverter for backlight enabled control LCD panel. For applications which require additional expansion, NEX 604 is equipped with a PCI slot. NEX 604 is equipped with dual mini-PCIe slots for applications which require 3G/SIM Tray and Wi-Fi connectivity such data logging, mobile communication, networking gateway and embedded focus applications.

 

3.5"  Embedded Board Series Leads the Wave of Atom™ D2700 Solutions

NEX 605 for Storage Server and Multimedia Application

Targeted at storage and multimedia applications, NEX 605 provide 5x SATA/ 1x eSATA storages (Option 4x SATA/ 2x eSATA by Jumper) and software support for RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 with onboard Intel® ICH10R chipset. When equipped with 5x SATA-HDDs NEX 605 can support upto 8TB storage making it the best solution for Small-medium Enterprise security surveillance applications, graphic intensive digital signage deployments, voice and video streaming as networked storage service. NEX 605 supports 1x mini-PCIe for Wi-Fi or 3G/ SIM tray and has an extra PCIe x4 expansion slot for high-density I/O added-on card for your mission critical application. NEX 605 supports dual displays and can play a wide range of multimedia file formats including MPEG2, H.264, and VC-1/WMV9, In addition it can also playback Full HD 1080p contents via VGA and HDMI output for digital signage, retail, hospitality, banking as well as medical healthcare markets.

Professional Conformal Coating Service

For users who are looking for embedded computers that can operate in hostile environments, NEXCOM offers further protection on its embedded boards with optional conformal coating service which is conducted by automated machinery in a high-speed and high-precision manner. With the conformal coating, embedded applications will be protected against possible intrusions of humidity, dust, and temper mechanical vibrations that might stress electronic circuits.

Ordering Information

NEX 604 (P/N: 10G00060401X0) RoHS Compliant

Industrial mini-ITX motherboard with Intel® Atom™ dual core processor D2550/ NM10 to support 2x DDR3/ SO-DIMM, VGA/ HDMI/ LVDS, 2x SATA/ 2x GbE/ 4x COMs/ 6x USB2.0/ 2x mPCIe and 1x PCI expansion slot, DC +12V input

NEX 605 (P/N: 10G00060501X0) RoHS Compliant

Industrial mini-ITX motherboard with Intel® Atom™ dual core processor D2550/ ICH10R to support 2x DDR/ SO-DIMM, VGA/ HDMI/ LVDS, 5x SATA/ 1x eSATA, 2x GbE/ 8x USB2.0/ 4x COMs/ 1x mPCIe and 1x PCIe x4 expansion slot, ATX input

Comparison between NEX 604 and NEX 605

Model NEX 604 for Embedded Application NEX 605 for Storage and Multimedia
CPU

Intel® Atom™ Processor D2550
1M Cache, 1.86 GHz

Memory

Dual DDR3/ SO-DIMM up to 4GB SDRAM 800/ 1066Mhz

Display
(A choice of two)

VGA
HDMI
1x single channel 24-bit LVDS (by DF13-20DP)

Chipset NM10 ICH10R
Dual Gigabit Ethernet

Dual Realtek 8111E

Dual Intel® 82574L

Storage

2x SATA 2.0

5x SATA 2.0/ 1x eSATA or
4x SATA/ 2x eSATA (by Jumper)

RAID

-

Software RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10

I/O Interfaces

4x RS232
6x USB
-
Line- out/ MIC-in
PS2/ KB & Mouse
LPT (26-pins box-header)

4x RS232
8x USB
Line- out/ MIC- in
PS2/ KB & Mouse
LPT (26-pins box-header)

Expansion

1x Mini-PCIe (full-size/ SIM tray)
1x Mini-PCIe (Half-size)
1x slot PCI (32/33Mhz)

1x Mini-PCIe (full-size/ SIM tray)
-
1x slot PCIe x4

Power Input

DC+12V (mini-DIN or 2x2pins ATX)

Standard ATX

Applications

Data Logging
Mobile Communication
Embedded Networking
Industrial Gateway

Digital Signage
Retail/ Hospitality/ Banking
Medical Healthcare / Storage Server
Security Surveillance

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