The VIA Em-ITX platform is a little quirky. It's a great idea, but I think it's fair to say that it's not mainstream. The idea is basically that you take a Mini-ITX board, squish it so that it's 12x17cm instead of a 17cm square, and make it so that you can have I/O ports along two sides instead of one. That gives you 200% more I/O real estate on a board that's 30% smaller. Plus, designers can add extra features with expansion cards.
Now, how do you go about fitting such an octopus of a board into a chassis? Wait until the designers of the board come up with one I guess, and that's exactly what VIA have done. The VIA AMOS-5000 is designed for Em-ITX boards and it even has the capability of stacking extra little chassis on top of the main one if you want to add those elusive expansion modules that are yet to be released. The VIA AMOS-5000, on the other hand, is available right now.
The chassis is made from heavy duty steel and it's a completely fanless design, as you'd expect. A system built with the Em-ITX and VIA AMOS-5000 can withstand temperature ranges of -20 - 55 celcius and even g-force up to 50.
"The VIA AMOS-5000 is available now and targets a wide variety of embedded segments including medical, healthcare, industrial and building automation, digital signage, kiosk, POI/POS, gaming and surveillance applications." - Press Release.
Now, how do you go about fitting such an octopus of a board into a chassis? Wait until the designers of the board come up with one I guess, and that's exactly what VIA have done. The VIA AMOS-5000 is designed for Em-ITX boards and it even has the capability of stacking extra little chassis on top of the main one if you want to add those elusive expansion modules that are yet to be released. The VIA AMOS-5000, on the other hand, is available right now.
The chassis is made from heavy duty steel and it's a completely fanless design, as you'd expect. A system built with the Em-ITX and VIA AMOS-5000 can withstand temperature ranges of -20 - 55 celcius and even g-force up to 50.
"The VIA AMOS-5000 is available now and targets a wide variety of embedded segments including medical, healthcare, industrial and building automation, digital signage, kiosk, POI/POS, gaming and surveillance applications." - Press Release.
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