Low power Atom launch

According to GE Fanuc, the bCOM2-L8000 COM Express module and mITX-945S-ED motherboard can provide the foundation to create embedded solutions where low power consumption and minimal heat dissipation are required. Wayne McGee, GE Fanuc's general manager, commercial products, said: "These new products provide an ideal combination of functionality, price/performance and low power consumption. They extend and complement the solutions we can offer customers and open up new opportunities for system integrators in environments and applications that are presently not well served. With a superior feature set when compared to alternative low power offerings, they deliver lower power consumption than existing solutions." The bCOM2-L8000's I/O capability includes one Gigabit Ethernet port, two Serial ATA interfaces, support for up to two IDE devices and eight USB 2.0 ports, while expansion can be achieved via three PCI Express lanes, with support for up to four devices via the PCI bus. Support for up to 2GBytes of memory, together with audio and graphics is also provided. The mITX-945S-ED also has I/O functionality and includes two Gigabit Ethernet ports, PCI Express and PCI expansion slots, a COM port, two serial ATA ports, support for up to two IDE devices and four (optionally expandable to eight) USB 2.0 ports.