Kontron ETX-PM

Introduction

The ETX-PM products feature the Intel ® Pentium M Processor known from the Intel ® Centrino ® Platform. With the unique Enhanced Speed Step ™ technology the ETX-PM modules offer supreme computing performance at extreme low power consumption. Supporting up to 1GB of DDR-SDRAM technology the memory bandwidth is no longer the performance bottleneck. The integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2 video controller offers resolutions up to 2048x1536 pixel with 2D and 3D acceleration. The JILI display interface technology ensures automatic setting of the video controller parameters for the attached LCD panel. The 4 USB channels support USB 2.0 with full bandwidth for the coming generations of I/O devices.

As all boards in the ETX product line the ETX-PM is fully featured with PCI 2.1 bus, audio, ethernet, floppy/printer, IDE, serial ports and keyboard/mouse interfaces. ETX modules are like components, plugging into an application specific baseboard. The ETX modules supply the core CPU and memory subsystems together with sound, QXGA, Ethernet and standard PC I/O. They connect to the rest of the embedded system through high density, low profile, surface-mount connectors, which carry both ISA (future option) and PCI bus signals as well as dedicated I/O interfaces. The mechanics of the interconnection is such that an ETX/ baseboard combination is virtually the same in height as a one-board solution. ETX modules are scaleable and interchangeable, and they make possible the rapid development of semi-custom solutions for embedded applications.

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Heatspreader Concept

The heat-spreader is a 2mm thick aluminium plate. It provides a thermal interface surface for heat removal from the ETX module. The heat-spreader is thermally coupled to the CPU die or package surface, and it may also be coupled to other heat generating devices on the module (e.g. chipset, vga chip). The heat spreader is not intended as a heat sink, although it may be suitable for this purpose on low power modules operating under benign conditions. Higher power modules or higher temperature conditions will probably require heat removal devices (e.g. heat sink with fan, heat pipe, larger heatsink etc.) to be attached to the heatspreader, or it may need to be thermally coupled to a chassis.

Take a read of the ETX-PM thermal guidelines for more information.

Dual Display/DVI Output

By using the Kontron ADA-DVO-DVI-FC3 adapter, DVI displays can be supported. The Intel chipset supports dual independent displays via either the VGA, DVO or LCD interfaces.

Supported Flat Panels

The list of supported panels is now too large to show in a single webpage, they are now shown in the 'flat panel selector'. To run the flat panel selector, click here and choose the ETX-PM as the model to see what panels are supported.